Rodney Yee: Meditation & Yoga

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"Meditation is a time-honored practice that reduces stress and revitalizes the body, mind, and spirit," explains Rodney Yee, instructor for Yoga Journal's Yoga Practice for Meditation. "Meditation is awareness of posture, ease of breath, and attentiveness of the mind." In this beautiful video, Yee quietly and expertly leads you through five yoga practices that release bodily tension, improve posture, and open up breathing. The setting is grand and gorgeous Yosemite National Park, where Yee demonstrates poses in a meadow flanked by trees and cliffs, or at the edge of a lake or waterfall. The rewards of meditation are "living more calmly, more fully, with strength and grace," promises Yee. The practice is divided into five segments: Mountain, a series that moves from pose to pose, used for making the transition from daily activities to a sitting meditation (12 minutes); Garden, gentle movements done in a chair that open the hips and stretch the back (10 minutes); Tree, four sitting poses, using props to modify the poses to your personal flexibility level (10 minutes); Wind, with the focus on the movement of breath, releasing tension, and relaxing deeply (10 minutes); Sky, a meditation focusing on posture and breath, and "inviting the mind into the present moment, time and time again" (8 minutes). --Joan Price

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Great for Meditative Practice or Relaxation

Review Date: July 17, 2000

Reviewer: Tuckerby, Los Alamos, NM USA

Majestic images of Yosemite, serene music, calming narration: with these tools Rodney Yee presents five sessions aimed at preparing the individual for meditation by offering practice in breath awareness, posture, position, and flexibility to assume meditative poses. The last session is a guided meditation. Although the video lists seven props necessary to the video, only three are used: a chair, two blankets, and a block, and the last two are optional depending on your flexibility. MOUNTAIN offers a transition from standing activity to the floor, starting with mountain pose, then flowing through standing forward bend to downward dog to the ground. GARDEN presents chair exercises that stretch the inner thighs and groin in preparation for the seated meditative poses shown in TREE. In TREE, Rodney demonstrates four traditional meditative poses--cobbler, lotus, sage, and hero, including the use of blocks and blankets to make the asanas more comfortable. WIND is a session in supine focusing on the breath, and SKY is eight minutes of meditation guided by Rodney. I found the video relaxing and peaceful. Most poses are easy and well within the scope of a beginner, although GARDEN may prove challenging for individuals without much flexibility in the hips. Even if much of the video is not meditation per se, it still affords an opportunity to quiet mental chatter and relax the body. For me, this tape *is* Yoga for Relaxation!

This video will make you stress free!

Review Date: July 27, 1999

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This is one of my favorite videos among the 6 that I own from the Yoga Journal collection. If you don't have the time to do the entire video even doing part will help relieve stress in your life. Rodney Yee along with Patricia Walden (in other YJ videos) are two of the all time great yoga instructors. If some parts are tough for beginners (really only a couple) don't get discouraged as just "listening" to either of these instructors calms the soul.

Quiet Focus

Review Date: September 24, 2001

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I like this tape! I find this to be a soothing. Rodney Yee guides you through five different sessions that can be done together or alone. For someone who hates to work out, this was an excellent way to gear my mind and body for a more vigorous practice.

I found that after doing this tape for two weeks, the little things didn't bother me as much. I am able to deal with stress and I can think more clearly when others around me panic.

The tape is beautiful even if it is for the view.

Exactly what I needed

Review Date: September 23, 2003

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I was reluctant to try something that involved meditation, because I'm more interested in flexibility and posture than meditation. But this has been an excellent introduction to getting comfortable with yoga, and I am now dedicated to branching out into more challenging tapes. Because the emphasis is on breathing properly and relaxing deeply, my body actually feels better in a totally new way: like I worked out at the gym, but without strain and with only the flush of circulation and relaxation. Yee is an excellent teacher and speaker: after several viewings, his voice is still calming and the settings are still beautiful (Yosemite Park) -- not that I see them, because my eyes are closed most of the time. Only one session requires a block to sit on, but I am now dedicated to practicing yoga regularly enough that I made the investment in one. For someone looking to "get started" with yoga at home without strain, this is the perfect tape.

Gentle Beginning

Review Date: February 20, 2002

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Nothing intimidating about this video. Makes Yoga & meditation available to the uninitiated. Despite being beginner friendly, has potential for continued growth and practice. Rodney Yee draws the viewer in without affect or distraction.

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