Insight Yoga: Heaven

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 Yang Energy

The emphasis in the Insight Yoga | Heaven DVD is on enhancing the vibrant Yang energy within our body. We then balance this with a grounded Yin-based practice.

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

• Insight Yoga | Earth DVD: practices to balance Yin energy. The perfect companion to Insight Yoga | Heaven!
  
  
• 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!

Heaven 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: Strengthening the Lung Chi (65 min): A series of of upper body poses, inversions and yin backbends, with breath exercises and visualizations to strengthen the lungs and increase overall circulation and vitality in the body.
  
  
• • Practice 2: Ground Support: Breathing into the Hara (45 min): A series of yin and yang postures practiced on our backs, nourishing the spine, hips and abdomen.
  
  
• • Karuna Meditation (16 min): A guided compassion meditation in which we use our mental and emotional obstacles as opportunities for developing kindness and sensitivity toward our vulnerabilities as well as an empathic connection with others.

Details

Highlights from this DVD include:

• • Practice 1: Strengthening Lung Chi: increases lung circulation and vitality (65 min)
• • Practice 2: Ground Support: nourishes the spine, hips and abdomen (45 min)
• • Karuna Meditation: guided compassion practice developing empathy (20 min)

Special features:

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

Buyer's Guide

• Audience: All levels of practitioners
• Focus: Balancing Yang upper 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.