Yoga Trance Dance with Shiva Rea, appropriate for all ages and experience, mixes dance and yoga to create a contemporary exploration of conscious movement meditation with an eye toward healing the split between body and mind that has, according to Shiva Rea, led many of us to live primarily from the neck up. The DVD begins with prana-initiating yogasanas, flowing into an exploration of free-form, breath-driven movement to free your creative life force and cultivate embodied freedom. Because of the dance element, most comparisons to a traditional yoga program don't apply. Whereas vinyasa yoga is essentially a series of flowing, connected poses, here the movement is within the poses themselves, not just within the overall sequence. Thus familiar asanas such as the cobra and downward facing dog take on a new aspect, with users encouraged to constantly roll their shoulders from side to side in cobra or make undulating, wave-like spinal movements in down dog; it's a style that may be somewhat more familiar to practitioners of kundalini yoga than those used to the more widespread, Iyengar-based hatha tradition. Meanwhile, the trance dance sections encourage spontaneous, free-form movement that may well lead to the kind of creative self-expression and loosening of inhibitions that Rea prescribes. And with the Yoga Matrix format, you can customize program to suit your time, mood, and energy level.