Introduction to Natya Yoga Natya Yoga DVD series

Natya Yoga DVD

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From the Dancers/Presenters:
If you feel there should be something beyond the static poses of Hatha Yoga, or if your meditations have little effect on your everyday life, your mind and your body, you will find Natya Yoga to be the ultimate answer to your inner aspirations and a complete solution. This DVD is meant primarily for a serious adult who wants to learn to live a healthier, happier and meaningful life.

About the Presenters/Dancers:
Bharatanatyam dancers of Chennai explain different elements of practices, with each point illustrated by 23 unique dance videos featuring the top-ranking young virtuosos from South India representing different schools of Bharatanatyam. One of these is T.Sangeetha, a Limca Book record holder for the longest (60 hours) continuous Bharatanatyam performance.

Product Description
This DVD is the world's first video on Natya Yoga. It highlights the yoga elements in Bharatanatyam, and provides an introduction to this complex ancient system and its key concepts, and contrasts it with the practices of the shamaniscic dances, sufi whirling, the trance dance, as well as the European dance and theatre forms.

Product Details

Presenters/Dancers: Madhumita Srinivasan, Vandana Arumugam, Uma Ramachandran, Medha Hari, Archana Raja, Harinie Jeevitha Narasimhan, Varsha Uma Balabharathy, Subhiksha Raghuram, Pavithra Dinakaran, Sri Varsha, and others
Directors: Subashini Arumugam
Format: Color, dvd_Video, NTSC
Sound: Dolby 5.1
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: Not rated
Studio: NatyaYoga.net
DVD Release Date: 2008
Run Time: 50 minutes

The applications, meaning and effects of different body poses and moves, hand positions, gestures, and facial expressions and their effects and relations with the states of mind are explained in simple terms in the context of Tantra. This DVD brings out the significance of the Bharatanatyam costume, jewelry, and make-up, and describes the system behind the Bharatanatyam compositions.

While most children attend their Bharatanatyam classes just for fun, and many adult Bharatanatyam students - especially the non-Indians - consider it just as a more entertaining substitute for aerobics, this DVD introduces the lesser-known aspects and practices, such various elements of Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Hatha Yoga, as well as Tantric practices and other exercises applied in Bharatanatyam, as well as certain mystic aspects of Carnatic music and its effects.

The DVD provides the viewer with:

2 interactive on-screen buttons, "Gestures" and "Story" that lead to the explanations of the body language and the meaning of the items
2 audio tracks: with and without the voice-overs
English subtitles throughout the video