Maya Fiennes Kundalini Yoga: Wisdom & Bliss

A creative spin on your basic kundalini mantras. I highly recommend for anyone who is creating their own daily practice and wants some new music.

Initial Warning: New Age Cheese Factor is present in this DVD. My boyfriend walked in on me right as Maya was encouraging me to “become the New Aquarian Person!” and he burst out laughing. I don’t mind it, being something of a low-key hippy person who talks to her plants and worries about her chakras, but although Boyfriend was interested in joining me for this work out (it does a lot of back stretching and flexing, which since he has a very tense, stiff back, looked appealing to him) he didn’t think he could make it through and keep a straight face.

His loss. Still, if being told to become “the new Aquarian Person!” or “We will now chant to strengthen the kidneys” will utterly ruin your enjoyment of a practice, you might, ah, wanna rent this one first. Just in case.

Now, on to the review proper:

This routine can be fairly intense if you’re not in shape. It’s fun, I like it very much, but it can be quite the work out considering you don’t actually *stand up* at any time. That being said, I’m not in the most phenomenal shape of my life at the moment and I can finish this practice. And I enjoy it very much indeed! It is currently part of my regular yoga rotation and I often do the warm up portion of the DVD even on days when I am not doing the full practice. It’s very dynamic: you will not hold anything but corpse pose and easy pose. And it’s all done sitting or kneeling. Props are not necessary even for We the Inflexible Yogis and Yoginis of the World, which I think would make it great for travel, although I do tend to sit on my yoga mat when I do this practice.

Kundalini yoga is very different from the other hatha yoga styles I’ve been exposed to. But it’s fun, it made my back feel FANTASTIC, the music is great, and I felt reinvigorated and centered after it was done.

i like it. very relaxing. the voice follow along is nicely done since your eyes ought to be closed most of the time. i kept my eyes open most of the first time and i liked that she had no distractions in her set and background and the music was nice.

I am delighted with this book. I ordered from Amazon.co.uk and recieved it very quickly.

I have all of Maya’s DVD’s and was looking forward to this book being released. I am really impressed with it. It is a good size and has 208 Pages, the photographs are beautiful…very creative and inspirational. The book contains what the title describes and the chapters are as follows:

Hello from Maya

Introduction

Be here, Now – Root chakra

Detox and destress – Sacral chakra

Yes I can – Navel chakra

Love and relationships – Heart chakra

Staying youthful – Throat chakra

Children – Third Eye chakra

Finding joy – Crown chakra

The chapters are so interesting and well composed. Exercises and mantra’s are detailed and easy to follow. There is also inspirational wisdom and quotes from Masters eg Yogi Bhajan. Maya also includes some recipes that will benefit in different ways.

The pages are in the colour of the chakra’s and I think it is a nice touch as it looks nice but it is also practical as you can easily choose the chakra that you would like to work with. At the beginning of each chakra chapter there is a reference to the chakra:

Governs

Shadow emotions

Colour

Symbol

Element

I am so glad that I purchased this book and can highly recommend it to you and hope that you benefit from it as I know I will. Sat Nam x