"Actor: Vimla Lalvani"

• Diets Don't Work 2 - Yoga's Lasting Solution | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Problem - we get worried about our weight and tend to try every fad diet in the hope that we will lose weight. Result - a never ending battle as only too often the weight comes back. The solution - yoga. Yoga helps provide balance mental and physical. Yoga philosophy says that every person is unique and that is why we all respond differently to the same situation and crave certain foods. Cravings are real and explain that there is a certain imbalance in the system. When you are in perfect balance you will have no need for cravings. Vimla Lalvani has devised two short yoga workouts to help you find the balance that you need in your life one for the beginning of the day and the other for the end of the day. The morning programme will gently stretch tone all your muscles boosting your energy levels increasing your strength and stamina. The evening programme will rejuvenate your system and help you to de-stress easing the tension in the muscle groups calming and soothing your nervous system.

• Jerry Hall - Yogacise | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  From the moment Yogacise begins--with adorning shots of a heavily made-up Jerry Hall--it's hard to take it seriously. The brainwave of teacher Vimla Lalvani is a combination of the ancient system of yoga and stretching and is intended to help urban stressful living. However, Lalvani and celebrity student Jerry Hall seem to be appealing to an older, wealthy lady whose stress comes from where to lunch. Aside from working out the fusion between yoga and stretching (isn't yoga based on stretching?), the format of the video is difficult to follow. With a multitude of graphics competing for attention, and the constant switch between three set locations (resembling Christmas Grottos), this is stressful viewing. Added to this is the fact that for the majority of the programme Lalvani and Hall face each other--a profile view of the positions is difficult to replicate if you're a beginner. The addition of a voice-over makes it hard to coordinate the movements. Vimla Lalvani is an established teacher with no need for gimmicks and it would have been far more interesting to see the Jerry Hall we don't know, rather than Mick Jagger's ex-missus looking like she's on the set of a hair and make-up ad. --Lorna V

• Your Yoga Body | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Your Yoga Body is a workout system which has been specifically designed to tone and invigorate your body. The routine is setto music and combines the calm of Yoga with the beauty and grace of modern movement. In Your Yoga Body you learn a posture do a series of movements then come back into the posture. You boost your energy and get your heart beating with this movement which builds up your stamina. Vimla Lalvani is one of the world's foremost experts on Yoga having released numerous DVDs and books in the previous 20 years. Her approach to Yoga is a modern one where she de-mystifies Yoga and attracts the modern masses.