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| View Larger Image | Meditation for Beginners | DVDStarring: Maritza
Directed By: Ted Landon
Also With: Bryan H. Shepard (Cinematographer), Benjamin Davis (Composer), Tom Seid (Editor)
| List Price: | $14.98 | | Price: | $11.99 | | You Save: | $2.99 (20%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 90 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, NTSC | | Studio: | Gaiam | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | August 20, 2002 | | Sales Rank: | 7,503th |
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FEATURES | - Mindful Meditation Anyone can learn to meditate and promote inner harmony, clarity, well-being and vitality. In Meditation for Beginners, inspiring yoga and meditation teacher Maritza guides a step-by-step practice of mindfulness and shows you how to inwardly focus your mind to release patterns of tension and anxiety that block your vital force. Maritza helps you create your own inner sanctuary wi
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Product Description
Mindful Meditation Anyone can learn to meditate and promote inner harmony clarity well-being and vitality. In Meditation for Beginners inspiring yoga and meditation teacher Maritza guides a step-by-step practice of mindfulness and shows you how to inwardly focus your mind to release patterns of tension and anxiety that block your vital force. Maritza helps you create your own inner sanctuary with a 15-minute yoga practice to prepare body mind and attention for two 20-minute guided relaxation and meditation sessions. DVD offers additional on-screen instruction pose guide and interview with Martiza. An excellent program for those with no prior meditation experience.System Requirements:Running Time 90 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS UPC: 029956100008 Manufacturer No: 127-1284 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 38 reviews)
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Well worth it! by Brian T. Carter  5 Stars
August 08, 2009
I've been using the DVD three days a week and feel like it's helping me through a rough time. Just setting aside time for myself every morning with this DVD is a blessing. I like how she moves from basic yoga, to body scan, to mediation. It really primes you for the "work" of the meditation portion. Although, most of the time I skip the body scan because it makes the whole session about an hour instead of an hr. and a half. This DVD is well worth the investment and has led me to interest in other forms of meditation. Go for it!
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Buyer beware by WazzMan (Georgia USA)  1 Stars
July 15, 2009
Any benefits from the meditation is highly compromised EVERY time you start the DVD. First, there are several cover-their-butts warnings. Then there is the LONG commercial for the publisher, GAIAM Media. I repeat, every time you start the DVD. Every stinkin' time. EVERY, every, every time. Did I say, EVERY time.
So you want a nice meditation session. Wonderful. Great. But let me first shove an in-your-face corporate commercial down your throat, whether you want it or not. You know, because we can. And becasue, of course, we are more important than you.
To me, this makes the whole premise a lie. People want meditation to get away from the busy-ness of the world, which of course, primarily consists of heavy doses of corporate crap we are CONSTANTLY fed. Margarine anyone?
Boycott it, dont buy it.
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Stressed Out--This Really Helps! by E. Meehan (Los Angeles, CA) 5 Stars
June 06, 2009
Lately I've been stressed to the max with work, the economy, you name it, I'm stressed about it. The great reviews here sealed the deal--I ordered it. Never having practiced meditation before, I liked that people said good things about the short yoga portion and the body awareness exercise.
Holy cow, this DVD was amazing. I liked that the yoga portion was short, and the stretches weren't impossible to do. The body awareness was very calming and relaxing, which prepares you for the third and final portion, the actual meditation practice (the guide, a French-born Yoga and Meditation instructor with a rockin' body has a very calming and relaxing voice, instructing "when your mind wanders, gently pull it back") is super.
I now do this DVD 3-4 times a week and it gets better each time. It has relieved my stress, helped me sleep better, and not be so short with my husband. Well worth it! Highly, highly recommended.
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So soothing! by Marjorie A. Graham 5 Stars
February 19, 2009
I purchased the DVD to teach me simple yoga positions since my first intro to yoga has been power yoga and I am struggling. Maritza's voice is wonderful and the pace is so relaxing. I use the body scan meditation at bedtime and do the seated meditation in the a.m. SHort attention theater here! Have a hard time as a newbie staying put for 20 min. I find the body scan an easier way to stay in the moment. I am very greatful to the other reviews which helped me select this. And, yes. My BP is down.
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Good Start by C. Morrison (Independence, KY)  4 Stars
December 26, 2008
It really is a great intro to meditation. The instructor, Maritza, takes you through a short yoga routine and progressive relaxation. I've tried several other DVD's (Rodney Yee and others) and this is by far one of the better places to start. The only thing that I didn't like about it is that when Maritza is meditating, her head bobbles like a bobble head and it's distracting (doesn't look very peaceful).
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| AM and PM Meditation
Starring: Maritza, Rodney Yee
Directed By: Ted Landon
PRACTICING A.M. AND P.M. MEDITATION CREATES INNER CALM AND FOCUS THROUGHOUT YOUR DAY.
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