7 months of researching

25 amazing yoga teachers and visionaries

more than 25 hours of video footage

3 months of post-production

That’s what it took to produce this upcoming movie, The Titans of Yoga, which will air in September in the US, just in time for National Yoga Month.

This DVD runs for about 72 minutes in HD quality and features 25 modern yoga masters like Ana Forrest, Shiva Rea, Sharon Gannon, John Friend, Rajashree Choudhury, and others. It retails at US$24.95.

On the Yoga Month website, The Titans of Yoga is described as follows:

For the first time ever, Titans of Yoga brings together twenty-five of the most prominent figures in the worlds of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, from Dr. Dean Ornish, a physician consultant to President Clinton, to Lilias Folan, the “First Lady of Yoga.”

As they share their own life experiences from the tragic to the ecstatic, the Titans embark on a journey of self-discovery that touches and inspires.  Their tales of addiction and depression, an HIV positive diagnosis and a penchant for sex, drugs and rock-and-roll will move you as they share how they overcame these challenges and transformed them into their greatest life victories.

From the description above, I can surmise that many of these yoga masters led fairly ordinary and sometimes problematic lives before yoga transformed them into what they are today. This is truly an inspiration because many have this notion that in order to do yoga, you need to be already OK in terms of body shape, body flexibility, mind focus, well-being. What many of us forget is that we can start yoga from anywhere we are and in any state of mind and body that we are in today. Over time, with faithful practice, yoga can lead us to the transformation we need.

Watch a trailer of the DVD HERE.

To order, click HERE.