Yoga for Everyone, Acacia, 40 minutes, DVD, $14.99. Available at Amazon.com, www.acacia catalog.com and other retailers.
Just about any schoolteacher will tell you that certain students' names elicit smiles of happy anticipation when their papers reach the top of a stack being graded. The same thing happens when fitness video reviewers discover a new Hemalayaa DVD in the mailbox.
We just know it will delight, and that Hemalayaa will make us smile and laugh as we work out. The star of the Bollywood dance workouts has a reputation for being a playful, vivacious, and knowledgeable, instructor.
In Yoga for Everyone, available in stores Tuesday, Hemalayaa tells us that a yoga practice doesn't have to be a serious, solemn affair. It can be fun and, with her leading the way, we are free to make funny faces and noises, smile and feel happy. There could even be burbles of glee.
She also points out that a yoga session needn't be long. Doing a 20-minute routine every day is more beneficial than doing 90 minutes every now and then. Of course, we have no proof of this but if Hemalayaa says so ...
Since the DVD provides two 20-minute routines for our yoga pleasure, we can find out for ourselves. The routines contain basic poses such as downward facing dog, child, cat-cow, tree and cobra, but all have the Hemalayaa zing. We've seen no other yoga video in which exercisers are encouraged to scrunch their faces.
The routines are so similar that it doesn't matter which one you choose to do. Levels of difficulty and the pace of both are virtually the same. Both are suitable for beginning exercisers, as well as experienced people who'd like a relaxing, but merry diversion.
By www.nwanews.com
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