Lisa Reagan and Suzanne Jackson
Yogawakening
© 2003 Satori Productions, Inc. (783707658223)
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A peaceful way to awaken your body, mind, and spirit using the sound of progressively spaced soft chimes, followed by gentle yoga stretches and beautiful music.
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"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts." Thoreau
The way you awaken each morning can affect your entire day. With YOGAWAKENING, you will never experience sudden heart-racing or body-jarring shock as a shrieking clock screams you into wakefulness. Instead, gentle chimes invite you to wake slowly and naturally, with two beautiful instrumental melodies further supporting your rise from sleep into readiness to embrace the Sunrise Stretch and Sun Salutation yoga postures. Five or ten minutes in the morning is manageable and has the capability of changing the quality of the listener's entire day. YogaWakening can be used in a CD alarm clock for awakening or in a traditional CD player for gentle chimes and yoga stretches. Easy to follow verbal and written instructions are included.
Suzanne Jackson, a yoga teacher and director of the Awakening Arts and Yoga Center, created YogaWakening because her waking routine did not reflect what she was teaching in her yoga classes...be gentle and honor your body. She found that she was rising in the morning with a jolt to her system from the alarm clock which caused her heart to race. It took her body a few minutes just to calm down after she turned the alarm off.
Lisa Reagan, composer, and president of Stillpoint Records in The Plains, Virginia created the music to accompany the routines. Lisa and Suzanne are longtime friends and have collaborated on projects such as YogaWakening and the DVD YogaSing, Yoga for Singers and Performers. Lisa explains the creative process, "We wanted the music to capture the mood and energy of the morning so as Suzanne did the routines, I composed the music by watching every subtle movement. We are both musicians and feel the music is just what we envisioned."
About The Artists- "YogaWakening"
Suzanne Jackson combined her extensive training in yoga and voice to design a yoga for singers program entitled "YogaSing". She is currently on the faculty of The Washington Opera's Young Artist Program of the Americas and Opera Delaware's Artist Workshop. She has been featured in Opera America and writes a monthly column for Classical Singer Magazine.
She holds a Masters Degree in voice from the University of Maryland. She is the director of the Awakening Arts and Yoga Center in Wilmington, Delaware where she teaches weekly yoga, music, and YogaSing Kids classes. Her DVD "YogaSing" yoga for singers and performers and children's book, Penny the One of Kind Piano will be released in Fall 2003.
In addition to collaborating on "Yogawakening", Lisa and Suzanne recently completed a Yoga DVD for performers and singers, entitled "YogaSing"' which was produced by Alvaro Domingo and ADO Productions, Inc.
Lisa Reagan is a diversely talented singer, composer and recording artist and the President of Satori Productions, Inc., an independent music production company based in Virginia. Her debut CD, "Satori", showcases her angelic voice and poetic lyrics, combining mystical chants with driving rhythms and haunting melodies. She is currently working on her second CD with five-time Grammy winner John Jennings, which will be released spring 2004 on her independent label Stillpoint Records.
Lisa holds a Masters Degree in voice from the University of Maryland, and a Bachelors Degree in piano. She has performed as a soloist at The White House, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and many other theaters in the United States and around the world. For the past twelve years she has been a resident singer with The Washington Opera. In addition to having her own private voice studio, Lisa is a professor of voice at Shenandoah University Conservatory of Music. She is also a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and Reiki Master healer.
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spiritually refreshing
author: jacqueline, Sophia B. Collins Bath and BodyHearing the chimes helps me to stay centered spiritually. Great for unlocking the divine creative energy.
Rise refreshed with Yogawakening
author: Ben Jackson, business executiveWhen my wife told me about how she woke up to soft chimes every morning I thought it was just another crazy marriage adjustment that people keep telling me about. After 4 months of waking to YogaWakening, I rise refreshed and I find I am not as tired through the work day, especially in the morning hours. I attribute this to the gradual awakening of my mind and body.
YogaWakening.....just what the doctor ordered!
author: Cathy Williams, reflexologistYogaWakening is a unique product, the chimes and practical yoga routines are the perfect combination to begin the day. My Ayervedic doctor recommended beginning and ending the day with a sun salutation and the Sun Salutation music and guided routine is just what the doctor ordered!”
You’ll never want to use an alarm clock again
author: Nexus MagazineYou’ll never want to use an alarm clock again... the gracefully spaced chime sounds give one a luxurious five minutes in which to awaken... and the narrator’s soothing voice and clear instructions make following the yoga postures effortless, even before morning coffee.
Yogawakening is the perfect way to greet the day.
author: PJ Birosik, member, Coalition of Visionary RetailersYogawakening is the perfect way to greet the day.
It’s truly a collection of 5 mature and well-crafted songs.
author: Johanna BasaureWhat better way to wake from a physical and mental resting state in which a person becomes relatively inactive and unaware of the environment. Yogawakening swaps the earthly sounds and adopts a delicate, heavenly approach that gives the CD a different kind of beauty than that tolerated by a typical alarm clock. This CD has helped me every morning become aware of the interconnectedness between my emotional, mental and physical levels. Gradually this awareness leads to an understanding of the more subtle areas of existence. It’s helps one to fuse together the physical and mental levels within your being. What more could one ask for? The surreal harmonies and angelic percussion are all so intense. It’s truly a collection of 5 mature and well-crafted songs. The first single is characteristic of the album in general in that it takes its time, is hypnotic and dares to enter territory that most mainstream artists would not feel comfortable in. Heavenly chimes are the first to be heard, a brilliantly atmospheric sound. It has a literal meaning relating to the morning, and the theme of bright days in a cozy, comfortable place is the theme that Yogawakening has tried to explore here. Lisa Reagan and Suzanne Jackson are yoga geniuses who put their visions and dreams before critical success or album sales, and this is a quality evident on this CD.