SILVER SPRING, MD—Acacia announces the January 2009 DVD release of Shiva Rea: Creative Core + Upper Body (SRP: $9.99) offering a flowing yoga practice to tone the core, back, arms, and shoulders—all without endless crunches and tedious weight-lifting.

Building on the success of Creative Core Abs and Creative Core + Lower Body, world-renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea delivers her third innovative core program, this time with a special focus on the upper body.

With a strong core, people stand taller, look leaner, and feel healthier and more energetic. But no one wants to do boring exercises to attain that. With this innovative program, exercisers will get a lean midsection, a strong back, and sculpted shoulders and arms through fluid, yoga-based movements that are incredibly effective and just feel good. Filmed in gorgeous Limahuli Garden on the island of Kauai, this program will transform the way users look and feel.

Creative Core + Upper Body offers a quick, targeted program that fits into even the busiest schedule and can deliver incredible results.

BONUS SEGMENT: Beginner’s Backbend Flow (7 min.) from Shiva’s Flow Yoga for Beginners.

Hailed by Vanity Fair as “one of the world’s greatest yoga masters,” yoga visionary Shiva Rea is the creator of several top-selling videos including Creative Core Abs (Acacia’s No. 1 bestselling title), Yoga Trance Dance, Fluid Power—Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Radiant Heart Yoga, Creative Core + Lower Body, and Flow Yoga for Beginners. Shiva’s award-winning DVDs have been heralded by Health, Shape, and Self magazines in yearly “best of,” DVD of the month, and “DVDs We Love” lists. She is also the headliner at major yoga conferences, teaches workshops all over the world, and is the catalyst for the Global Mala Project, an annual worldwide yoga event.

Acacia, a product line of Acorn Media headquartered in suburban Washington, D.C., is one of North America’s new premiere providers of mind, body, spirit programming on DVD. Acacia DVDs are available from select retailers, catalog companies, and direct from Acacia at (800) 944-0474 or www.acaciacatalog.com.

To learn more about Acacia and its other talent, please visit www.acacialifestyle.com.