Advanced Yoga DVD Time?

When the time comes to invest in an advanced yoga DVD, get two. Choose one advanced yoga DVD that elevates your practice. Then, choose a second advanced yoga DVD that perfects your practice in your yoga style of choice or offers excellent instruction in the spiritual aspects of yoga training.

Are you ready to advance?

Your body and mind will tell you when it is time to graduate from your beginner yoga DVD to something more advanced. They will send both good news and bad news.

Relaying the good news, your body and mind will alert you that yoga practice has become an essential element in your daily routine: If you miss a practice, you genuinely will experience symptoms of withdrawal-mild depression, irritability, and frustration.

You are not imagining these symptoms; they are real. Your body has become dependent on its own endorphins, your feel-good bio-chemicals. When your synapses do not receive their daily dose of feel-good, they send unmistakable signals of their deprivation. When sports psychologists talk about "a positive addiction," they allude to this phenomenon.

Sending you a quirky and paradoxical version of the good news, your body and mind will alert you that the poses and progressions no longer challenge you. Everything has become predictable, relatively easy and effortless. You sometimes "phone in" your practices instead of fully engaging. Therefore, you do not get the same great workout or the same beneficial meditation. Most of all, though, your body and brain will signal just one urgent message: Bored!

Advance. Specialize. Sophisticate.

Taking your practice "up a notch or two" immediately will break through your boredom. Choose an advanced yoga DVD that introduces more difficult, more complicated poses. Choose the one that challenges you to stretch further, hold the asanas longer, move more gracefully from pose to pose, and pay attention to form, discipline, and grace with every move you make.

Naturally, an advanced yoga DVD increases the physical challenge in your practice. When you choose an advanced yoga DVD in your favorite style, it also will increase the emotional, psychological, and spiritual elements in your practice. You learn what it means to discipline the body for the sake of progressing toward enlightenment. The best advanced yoga DVDs increase their emphasis on higher consciousness, the "true" objective of your practice. More complicated poses ought to yield deeper awareness and draw you closer to union with The Divine and Eternal.

Sherry Holistan is a Hatha, Vinyasa and Bakti Yoga Practitioner. For an excllent thecenterforhealingarts.com/Yoga-Swami_Sundaranand-Yoga_Film_Himalayas Advanced Yoga DVD shot in the Himalayas, that gives a rare personal exerience with a real yoga swami, please visit thecenterforhealingarts.com/Yoga-Swami_Sundaranand-Yoga_Film_Himalayas thecenterforhealingarts.com/Yoga-Swami_Sundaranand-Yoga_Film_Himalayas