Trip Like I Do

Torture!

March 6th, 2008

My cousin downstairs has been cooking like a mofo tonight. The smells - they torture me. What has been cooking? I have no freaking clue, but I do know that it includes copious amounts of BACON!!!!!!! OMFG. The smell of bacon - it’s like heaven. Shoot me now!

I have been feeling a bit better this week - emotionally. I was so down this weekend, but then on Monday I finally decided to try one of the kundalini yoga videos that I got over a month ago. Doh. I picked up a copy of Kundalini Yoga For Beginners and Beyond by Ana Brett and Ravi Singh. I don’t know what else to say, other WOW! This DVD in particular isn’t terribly taxing on the body and modifications are given if you can’t do some of the moves. It’s really hard to describe this video, but it made such a difference in my attitude, it’s amazing.

This video includes their “matrix method” as well. What does that mean? It means that it has a section where you can build your own workout by choosing which chapters you want to do and it plays them back in that order. It’s a nice touch actually and I wish more DVD’s included this feature.

I didn’t do the whole thing through since it was late, I was tired and just wanted to get a feel for what this was about. it starts off with some chanting and then you go into some breathing exercises. It seems like a lot of this type of yoga focuses more on the breath than other types I have tried - which is really nice actually. I was originally just going to do the introduction, warm up and then a couple of meditations, but I ended up adding in one of the main “workout” sections as well since I just felt so good after the intro.

I don’t know what happened, but I certainly felt a lot better emotionally the next day. It’s like something clicks when you do this and you just become more serene or something. I am even treating my nemesis at work better since all of the negativity was really getting to me, but this put me more at peace. Either that or I am subconsciously the need to treat her better because what if my previous emotional state was due to karmic retribution? Egads!

I wanted to try something a little different the next day, so I tried some of the practices in another Ravi and Ana DVD, Yoga Quick Fixes. This DVD features practices which are supposed to help with some common ailments like headaches, depression, PMS, sciatica, etc. Again, I was only going to do the warm up, introduction and ending meditations, but I ended up practicing for over an hour. The warm up/intro is pretty similar to the one included on the beginners workout. What really got to me though were the ending meditations. I thought they were going to be short, but nope. I think the first one was something like 20 minutes long, the second one was about 15 minutes long and the third was about 8 minutes long or something. Whoops. It was nice and relaxing though. This video does not include their “matrix method,” but it does include some premixes for shorter workouts.

Ana is a really interesting instructor - she constantly looks like she is about to crack up or something. So, I would try to sometimes figure out what it was she was going to laugh about. I think most of the time, I have a feeling that she was probably just very smiley because of the inner joy/peace she felt. At other times, I would wonder if it was because she just let out a major fart or something. Yea. I’m a freak. Whatever.

They are also Amazon resellers under the user name Chakra44 and they are having a sale this week. I am thinking about picking up another couple of their DVD’s. I just wish I had more time during the day so I could actually use these DVD’s more.

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