Creative Core + Upper Body through Yoga with Shiva Rea

Using flowing yoga, this workout is designed to tone the core, back, arms and shoulders.
Bonuses: additional workout.

An innovative way to sculpt your abs, arms, and shoulders With a strong core, you stand taller, look leaner, and feel healthier and more energetic. But no one wants to do boring exercises to attain that. With this innovative program, you’ll get a lean midsection, a strong back, and sculpted shoulders and arms--all without endless crunches and tedious weight-lifting. World-renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea guides you through fluid, yoga-based movements that are incredibly effective and just feel good. Embrace the flow and rhythm as you build beautiful muscle tone for a slender, energized body. Filmed in gorgeous Limahuli Garden on the island of Kauai, this program will transform the way you look and feel. Fire Sequence 25 min. Creative Core 8 min. Shavasana 2 min.

BONUS SEGMENT: Beginner’s Backbend Flow (7 min.) from Shiva’s Flow Yoga for Beginners.

Creative Core + Upper Body consists of three main sections:

Agni Namaskar (the Fire Sequence) - this is a series of flowing and stretching movements, concentrating on the correct inhalation and exhalation, which are intertwined with regular sets of prostration pushuups. Core alignment is emphasised and the aim is to build strength into the upper body.
Creative Core – where the participant lies on the floor on their back focussing on the core abdominals
Shavasna – this is two minutes of well-earned relaxation.

No one but Shiva Rea can make doing 108 push ups in 22 minutes this doable. She does it by interspersing the wide legged pushups done in 9 sets of 12 each with various counter stretches and a vinyasa including hero/crescent lunge and chair pose and by giving you lots of ways to stay in the flow while taking a break, by holding plank, dropping into chattaranga or going into side plank. And she gets you through it with her encouragement and stylish vigor. There is no more interesting way to burn your upper bodie into shape. The 8 minute core section mixes bicycle variations and free form core exercises familiar from her prior DVDs in an interesting new way for another great core workout. Getting strong with yoga is Shiva Rea's specialty and if that is your goal this is a great DVD for you.