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Unedited Yoga and Meditation Classes. Learn Deepak Chopra’s Seven Spiritual Laws while being part of a Yoga and Meditation class focused on helping people with digestive problems. This is a Yoga, Chair Yoga, and Meditation program put together to help a person deal with chronic pain and different bowel disorders.
The teacher is Chopra Certified Instructor Rick Freeman. Rick has had Crohn’s Disease for over 20 years along with 7 surgeries. He has gone from patient, to student, and is now a certified instructor in Perfect Health and Chopra Center Yoga. Rick put this DVD together focused on helping people who deal with chronic illness. “You can do each class separately, or blend one of the yoga classes with the meditation to get some extra healing.”This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply…. More >>
Yoga and Meditation for Digestive Problems
Since beginning to investigate yoga videos for a family member, I’ve started to look into programs for myself and others. In the process, it was perhaps inevitable that the programs would soon begin to look and sound much the same and that my attention would wander to production values, acting, and cinematic style. Some videos are “over-produced” (travelogs to exotic islands in the South Seas accompanied by Yanni, Kenny G and a studio full of synthesizers); some are “wrongly-produced” (Round up as many sexy girls and boys as possible–and make sure the camera zooms in for close-ups of all those curves and bulges!); others are “underproduced” (where’s that old Keystone 8mm camera we inherited from grandpa?).
This video falls into the latter category. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a more “Spartan” production. There’s no editing (literally!). The camera is set up in a stationary position in someone’s back yard and is allowed to run continuously (no “cuts,” no “takes,” no “angles”) while a distant subject in long shot (I’m not kidding) goes through the exercises described on the soundtrack (which was obviously recorded after the shooting). Soon he’s no longer on screen, and the field of vision is occupied by a still nature photo (of the desert!). I wouldn’t be surprised if the entire production–setting up the camera, doing the exercises, supplying the still photos, scripting and narrating the soundtrack, layering on the music–weren’t done by a single individual.
At least the music is less annoying than some of the new-age sounds in the “overproduced” category, and there’s little time wasted on spouting the bromides that pass for wisdom in so many of these videos. Still, for the money you’d probably be better advised to pick up a Jane Fonda or Ali McGraw disc, either of which is going for about five bucks nowadays. Or, follow the example of this production: make your own video. All the same, I would be willing to award the production 2 or 3 stars were it not for a slight problem:
Unless I blinked, there isn’t a single reference made in this video to digestion! It appears as though the producer(s) had to have some sort of title (other than “Video #33b”), so this one was titled “Help With Digesive [sic] Problems” for no better reason than to distinguish it from the preceding one that happened to be titled “Help With (fill in the blank).” Indeed, a purchaser might have sufficient cause to ask for a refund on the grounds of misrepresentation.
Rating: 1 / 5