Insight Yoga: Earth

Overview

Special offer: Buy both DVDs in this series together and add the Heart Chi Bonus Practice to your cart for free!

Insight Yoga | Mingling Heaven and Earth – The new yoga series from Sarah Powers!

We humans are a confluence of earth ‘Yin’ energy and heavenly ‘Yang’ energy. Just as our world could not exist without the Yin support of the ground below and the Yang space of the sky above, our health and vitality depend upon these complementary upper and lower energies.

Our yoga practice draws strength from these two primordial forces of life and increases chi migration throughout the whole body while improving pranic circulation through the Hara, the belly center which is the wellspring of our life force.

Balancing Yin Energy

The emphasis in the Insight Yoga | Earth DVD is on enhancing the vitality in the Hara while encouraging strength and stability in our legs and abdomen—the ‘earth’ areas of the body.

The Insight Yoga | Heaven and Earth series also includes the following products:

• Insight Yoga | Heaven DVD: practices to balance Yang energy. The perfect companion to Insight Yoga | Earth!
  
  
• Insight Yoga | Awakening the Heart Chi Bonus Practice: Free downloadable practice when you purchase both of the Heaven and Earth DVDs at the same time!

Earth DVD Overview

• • Practice Overview (9 min): A short presentation on the principles of Insight Yoga with further details about each practice on this DVD.
  
  
• • Practice 1: Grounding Down (55 min): A series of standing and balancing poses that encourage lower-body groundedness, followed by fluid movements to decongest stagnancy in the back and shoulders. This practice helps maintain a healthy spine.
  
  
• • Practice 2: Spiraling the Universal Chi Down and In (31 min): Seated twists and core strengtheners that increase circulation along the spine and abdomen.
  
  
• • Shamata Meditation (20 min): A breath-focused meditation to develop a relaxed and stable quality of non-distracted attention that cultivates ease of being.
  
  
• • Vipassana Meditation (18 min): A mindfulness practice to disengage from the habits of mental reactivity and develop an alert, inquisitive attitude leading to insight.

Details

Highlights from this DVD include:

• • Practice 1: Grounding Down: promotes groundedness and frees stagnation (55 min)
• • Practice 2: Spiraling Chi: increases circulation in spine and abdomen (31 min)
• • Shamata Meditation: breath-focused attention to increase ease of being (20 min)
• • Vipassana Meditation: disengages mental reactivity and develops insight (18 min)

Special features:

• • English Subtitle option for all material
• • Bonus MP3s for portable practice

Buyer's Guide

• Audience: All Levels of practitioners
• Focus: Balancing Yin lower body energy
• Intensity: Moderate physical exercises and meditation
• Props: Yoga mat, strap, cushion or chair for meditation
• Style: Yin poses integrated with dynamic postures

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About Sarah Powers

Sarah Powers began teaching in 1987. She interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga and Buddhism into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of long held poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with a flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and alignment based teachings.

Her Buddhist training in Insight Meditation includes many retreats with Spirit Rock trained teachers, time spent in a Monastery in Burma, and a dharma teacher training with Bhante Gunaratana. She has also sat a number of Zen and Chan retreats. Her main influence for the last 7 years has been the Dzogchen teacher, Tsoknyi Rinpoche.

She teaches retreats with her husband Ty, and together they home school their teenage daughter, Imani Jade. They live in Marin, CA. For more information on Sarah, go to www.sarahpowers.com.

You may also enjoy our special interview with Sarah: Sarah Powers on Insight Yoga and a Complete Path.