breAthe: The Perfect Harmony of Breathing

Great beginning yoga entre for people with physical limitations
I've been following Fabio's course of breathing seriously now for about 3 months. For years, I felt intimidated by doing yoga because of being out of shape and overweight although I've done many meditation practices. I initially started the breathe course because I wanted finally to quit smoking. By the second class I had smoked my last cigarette in this life. This course works well for me because of its simplicity and the clarity of the sequence of movements combined with harmonious breathing. It feels great not to have to worry about complicated movements but gently acquire flexibility and range of motion to the point where I can now do some simple yoga positions. However, this video is not about doing yoga but about breathing properly, which is a great benefit to one's health and state of mind. My only regret is that I waited so long to begin this course. "Breathe" is one of the best practices I have ever done in my 30 year history of meditation practice. Thank you, Fabio!!!

An awesome video!!!
As an instructor of Yantra Yoga and someone who has been trained in the methods found in this video, I can say that from my experience for myself and my students, the benefits of this system of complete breathing are dramatic, many and lasting. I have had students who have stopped smoking immediately, alleviated restless leg syndrome, lowered blood pressure and hypertension, helped relieve many chronic ailments such as tension, insomnia, arthritis, fatigue, nervousness, and the list goes on and on. Not only that, but these methods are simple, not physically challenging and something that one can easily incorporate in daily life, so they can be used by people of all ages and physical conditions! This breathing technique is a sure way to relax more deeply than you have ever done before!!!
The video itself presents the methods developed by Fabio Andrico based in the principles of Yantra Yoga, in a clear, direct and elegant way. It is very easy to use and follow and it is beautiful...

Ground-breaking, simple, yet profound!
I have been a student, practitioner and a teacher of various types of Yoga and meditation for over 30 years. Fundamental to being able to discover a relaxed and calm state of mind is being able have an awareness of the breathing. When the breathing is disordered it is a sign that our mind and emotions are disordered. By learning to breathe in a deep and harmonious way we can more easily calm our mind even in the midst of our often busy and chaotic lives.
In this first-of-its kind DVD Fabio Andrico and Yamila Diaz expertly explain and demonstrate in a simple step-wise fashion the foundation of the `complete' or `abdominal' breathing. There are simple exercises for warming up the body to make it more flexible and amenable to working with the breathing. The instructions for unlocking the abdominal, thorasic, dorsal and clavicular breathing are superb and allow the user to discover, finally, how to breathe with awareness, in a smooth harmonious way. This will have a profound...

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The Last Place on Earth: The Complete Epic Miniseries

Probable scenario exposed at expense of British legend
This dramatization is based on the book, Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. It is a detailed study, centered around the 1910-1912 Great Race for the South Pole by two brave explorers; the Norwegian Capt. Amundsen and the British Capt. Scott. The legend of Capt. Scott had long been considered sacred. Afterall, Capt. Scott and his five-man party died on the return journey from the Pole after having reached it a month after Capt. Amundsen. Roald Amundsen, conversely, has largely been overlooked and even slandered for his achievement of safely reaching the Pole first. Mr. Huntford's research had uncovered so much information about Capt. Scott and Capt. Amundsen that it created a public scandal - a public outcry that even came to condemn the author. After all, a long-cherished British legend was being questioned to its very sanctity. So great was this outcry, that when the book was reissued in 1985 as The Last Place on Earth, it inspired this excellent PBS dramatization...

Possibly the Finest Adventure Series Ever Televised
I decided to write this review after seeing the television

dramatization of Ernest Shackleton's "Endurance" expedition.

Although I have seen "Last Place" many times, seeing "Shackleton", which is not bad, made me appreciate how

good "Last Place" really is. Ultimately, "Last Place" gives

a very good presentation of the different approaches to polar

exploration that Amundsen and Scott had. Unfortunately, "Shackleton" did not do this as well. Scott, a typical product of the hidebound Royal Navy and the class-ridden society

that made up late Victorian Britain believes that technology combined with immense will-power and "natural superiority of the Englishman" will overcome all obstacles.

Amundsen, a citizen of newly independent Norway, was much more open-minded and willing to make due with less. Unlike the British who believed they were a superior civilization and had nothing to learn from "inferior natives"...

What can I say about this series?
The first time I saw this mini series I couldn't have been more than ten. At the time it seemed like the most absurdly long movie I'd ever heard of, spanning six VHS tapes. I was dubious, to put it mildy, and the first episode concerning the set up for the expedition didn't do much to impress me.
...Then the second episode started up, and I was hooked.
As the title would suggest, it's really quite hard to think of how to describe this series. It features so many powerful moments, so many exemplary performances, that any summary I could give would feel lacking. I have never seen a more faithful or more compelling look at the race to be the first to reach the South Pole than this one. The direction and cinematography is very simple, letting the endless white landscape do most of the work in telling the story. Ample long shots which must have been amazingly difficult to film reveal a landscape unmarred by footprints or any other signs of humanity save for the small column...

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Tracy & Hepburn the Definitive Collection

Tracy and Hepburn = Magic
For classic film fans, it doesn't get any better than the films featuring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, but the special magic was in the movies they starred in together.

This latest and greatest offering provides all of their movies in one package, two that haven't been released on DVD before. For fans who have been buying each of their films as they've been released, there is little reason to duplicate those purchases here, as the two remaining films are also now being released. This is, however, a wonderful boxed set for fans new to these amazing actors, or for others who only have one or two of their movies.

Tracy and Hepburn are truly iconic: their sparkle on screen was a chemistry that was not only acting but very, very real. They were a committed couple for decades, but because Tracy was married but separated, they never publicly acknowledged their relationship during his life time. Tracy was a Catholic back in the days when divorce was not an...

"A Rare Tropical Fish -- Like You!"
I hesitate to write this review, since "Desk Set" is not merely my favorite Hepburn-Tracy movie, but also my favorite movie. Moreover, it includes my favorite scene in the movies, the "scene on the roof." Hence, I ain't objective. The roof scene, in which Tracy gives Hepburn what is essentially an I.Q. test, and Hepburn aces it, is not merely brilliant Tracy/Hepburn (told you I was biased), but a classic example of the jousting that occurs when a very smart guy meets a very smart woman. Inevitably -- because this is Tracy and Hepburn -- Richard Sumner admires and, eventually, falls madly in love with Bunny Watson, who dumps her long-time, self-centered, unappreciative boyfriend in order to marry him.

Everything about this film is delightful, from Tracy's cautioning Hepburn, "Never assume!" before relating the famous "detective" problem (see title of this review), to the office jokes between the legal department and the librarians, the floating-island dessert, Tracy's bongo...

Great stuff, but not much new
Hats off to Warner Brothers for making this set available, and at a great price. Only SEA OF GRASS and KEEPER OF THE FLAME are new to DVD. In fact, all of the other titles aren't even remastered, just ported over from previous DVD releases. The Kramer Collection edition of GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER is presented, including all of its extras. Likewise, the Fox edition of DESK SET includes all of its extras. The previous Universal DVD release of STATE OF THE UNION, with no extras (as per original release) is also included. The "bonus" disc, THE SPENCER TRACY LEGACY: A TRIBUTE BY KATHERINE HEPBURN, is the same program previously paired with FURY on an early WB DVD.

For non-die-hard fans who own previous editions of these films, Warner has kindly released SEA OF GRASS and KEEPER OF THE FLAME separately. If you don't already have any of these films, this set is a great value.

As to the mention by a previous reviewer that these discs are not DVD-Rs, that is...

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