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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Timothy Burgin
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Great Yoga Retreats by Kristin Rubesamen
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 Looking for an escape to your stress-filled hectic life? Open up this beautiful coffee table book and be transported to magical and mystical yoga retreat centers from all over the globe. This book covers a wide spectrum of yoga retreats, from small and rustic centers, to posh and pampered spas, and to large yoga ashrams. The large color photos are artistically shot to show the beauty and ambiance of the setting, decor, food, land and architecture. Each yoga center profile has a brief written overview giving the author’s impression of the center and includes the contact info as well as the retreat’s basic statistics (number of rooms, teachers, food, activities, etc.). |
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Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Timothy Burgin
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Creating a Healthy Back with Pranakriya Yoga
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 Yoga and physical therapist Marlysa Sullivan’s first instructional yoga Cd uses simple yoga poses to strengthen and lengthen the core muscles of the body. This is a safe and preventative approach to maintaining a healthy back, and the program’s tracks can be individually selected for a more personalized and therapeutic approach to healing back pain. |
 The latest release by Kristin Luna Ray is a bit hard to categorize. While an overall singer songwriter style is present throughout the Cd, this style is combined in varying degrees with jazz, latin, and world-music instrumentation. English, Sanskrit and Spanish lyrics are sprinkled throughout these soulful and heart opening songs. |
 Yoga-star Shiva Rea has released a new DVD geared especially for yogi/nis who wish to have a daily practice but don’t have much time. Seven 20-minute sequences can be practiced by themselves or can be stringed together and combined with two different meditations, a shorter core or forward bend sequence, and a guided shavasana. There are three options for choosing your practice on this DVD: choose a single sequence, choose a preset practice (2-4 sequences combined), or for the ultimate customization use the yoga matrix to mix together specific practices of your choosing. These options give an great amount of customization for the length, intensity and type of yoga poses for your practice. |
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Monday, December 21, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson
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 This fascinating book describes how meditation practices can literally change our minds. Hanson uses neuroanatomy, physiology and psychology to explain how the brain works in creating specific feelings and states of mind. The bad news is that the brain and the body seem to be hardwired to create suffering. The good news is that current research is showing that the brain is malleable and changeable, and it is changed by how we use it. |
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Friday, December 11, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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The Yoga Bible by Christina Brown
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 This sweet 400-page yoga book covers 170 yoga poses, as well as the other yoga practices of Pranayama, Mudras, Bandhas, and Kriyas. The book starts with a clear, short, and concise introduction to yoga, and ends with a yoga therapy section, but the book’s bulk is focused on teaching the yoga postures, which it does exceptionally well. For each yoga pose the name, benefits, drishti (gaze), prerequisite poses, counter poses, modifications and energetic effects are given. |
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Monday, November 30, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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Enlighten Up!
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 Yogini and filmmaker Kate Churchill set out to capture how the transformative powers of yoga would effect a new practitioner in this superb documentary. She follows Nick, an out of work journalist, as he takes his first yoga classes in the hip yoga studios of New York and as he explores the devotional aspects of yoga in India. Nick is charming, inquisitive, and skeptical of the possibility that yoga can enlighten him. Kate is passionate and unfailing in her desire for yoga to transform Nick, and this eventually leads to a conflict that was courageously shown in the film. These small segments of drama add a bit of spice to the film’s main focus of showing the vast world of yoga through the eyes of a beginner. |
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Friday, November 20, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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Pranakriya Yoga Workout Class
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 This 78-minute audio CD was specifically created for experienced and athletic yogi/nis who are wanting a workout yoga experience. No instruction is given for the pranayama practices, so it is assumed you know and are comfortable with practicing Ujjayi, Kapalabhati and breath retention. The practice is comprised of three modified sun salutes with several challenging balance poses and core strengthening poses added in. The hold times on the poses are on the long side which make the practice challenging, yet Yoganand gives permission to modify the poses or to not hold as long. |
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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Eyes Wide Open by Mariana Caplan
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 This illuminating and captivating book by psychologist Mariana Caplan explores the practice of discernment on the spiritual path. Through interviewing thousands of spiritual teachers and practitioners Caplan has uncovered the common traps of modern spirituality and the methods to avoid them. This honest look at the challenges of the spiritual path encourages the reader to carefully examine their spiritual practice as well as their psyche. Caplan’s main message is that psychological transformation and spiritual awakening are inseparably one process, and when this process becomes fragmented problems arise. She illustrates this most clearly through the stories of fallen teachers and guru scandals, but she is insistent that we all have the same weaknesses to overcome and the same dark places to befriend. |
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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The Lost Souls by Niraj Chag
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 While there have been many Indian/electronic fusion CDs recorded, The Lost Souls stands out by its sultry, mystical and magical sweetness as well as through its minimal use of electronica elements. While the guest vocalists make these tracks shine, they are perfectly balanced and accented by guitars, classical strings, harmonium, tabla, flutes and electronic instrumentation. The lyrics are a mix of original and traditional songs sung in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Braj basha, and Classical Indian sargam. |
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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The Chakra Bible by Patricia Mercier
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 This delightful book on body’s chakra energy centers is well designed and illustrated with beautiful color photographs, charts and drawings. The bulk of the book is straightforward, going through the seven main chakras with a chapter devoted to each one. Each chakra is described with its mental, emotional, spiritual and physical actions and functions. The colors, deities, crystals, mantras, yantras, yoga poses, sounds and herbs that effect and activate the chakra are also explained. |
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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Ten Million Moons by Gaura Vani
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 This devotion soaked CD is remarkable blend of many different musical styles, musicians and instruments. Raised as a “Krishna kid,” Gaura Vani draws on his upbringing singing and playing traditional Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali chants to the Hindu god Krishna. This traditional Indian vibe is the uniting factor throughout this beautiful and passionately recorded and produced CD. Gaura Vani reminds me a bit of Jai Uttal’s voice as well as the intricate, funky and fun arrangements and instrumentation.
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Monday, September 21, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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Total Body Transformation + Weight Loss DVD
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 This is certainly the best independently produced yoga DVD that I have seen, and it has an impressive amount of content and viewing options to boot. Sadie Nardini is an up-and-coming yoga teacher based out of NYC who has a wide following for her numerous (currently 148!) YouTube videos. The DVD has six different 60-90 minute yoga programs to choose from, with a range of focus and intensity. Overall the sequences are quite challenging and definitely build strength and endurance. |
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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Still the Mind by Bodhipaksa
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 Still the Mind is a true gem of an audio CD program. If you have any interest in meditation, and especially if you are new or a beginner at meditation, I highly recommend that you check this title out. It is worth buying just to hear Bodhipaksa’s calm, clear voice and beautiful Scottish accent guide you through these teachings. |
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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The Key Poses of Hatha Yoga
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 The second volume in the "Scientific Keys" series of yoga anatomy books is just as impressive as the first with the same style of computer illustrated skeletal models and detailed written information. The Key Poses of Hatha Yoga describes the anatomy of the body through fifty-five yoga poses, organized by pose type (Standing, Hip Openers, Twists, etc.) Each yoga posture is given a brief anatomical synopsis and then is broken down into describing each muscle group and its action in the pose. Each pose is illustrated in multiple angles and close ups, and the color illustrations are color coded to show what muscles are contracting and stretching and to what degree. |
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Monday, August 03, 2009 by Timothy Burgin
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Guided Meditation iPhone Apps
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 If you are new to meditation or just enjoy guided meditations then one of the 3 iPhone/iTouch apps from Mental Workout should appeal to you. Mindfulness Meditation, Be Happy Now, and Open Your Heart all have a similar interface that is simple to use and beautiful to look at. The main screen gives you the option to choose which guided meditation practice you wish to use, and tapping one of them takes you to the audio player page with a simple play/pause, forward and back buttons and an info screen to read about the meditation. |
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