SILVER SPRING, MD — The bestselling yoga superstar’s newest, innovative practice, Shiva Rea: Surf Yoga Soul, debuts on DVD from Acacia on May 5, 2009. Offering 7 mix-and-match segments, this fun and effective vinyasa program embraces the flow of the ocean and of life.

After teaching yoga to surfers for over a decade, world-renowned yoga master Shiva Rea merges the two cultures in this first ever program to bring wave motion onto the mat. It’s a liberating, inspiring approach to yoga that everybody can benefit from and enjoy. Users can pick and choose from seven segments focusing on strength, core balance, flexibility, and relaxation. The matrix format allows you to fully customize your workout every time you do it.

Like surfing, vinyasa yoga is dynamic and creative. Shiva’s unique flow yoga style builds body strength through rhythmic, circular, energetic movement. It’s a challenging practice for anyone who wants to strengthen the entire body, increase energy and balance, and gain flexibility.

Surf Yoga Soul was filmed at Polihale Beach in Kauai and features surf pro Alex Smith who was provided, along with surf wear, courtesy of Rip Curl – a leading international manufacturer of surfboards, wetsuits, surf wear, watches, surf accessories and mountain wear.

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 her innovative Creative Core series (Creative Core Abs, Acacia’s No. 1 bestselling title, Creative Core + Upper Body, and Creative Core + Lower Body), Yoga Trance Dance, Fluid Power—Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Radiant Heart Yoga, and Flow Yoga for Beginners. Shiva’s award-winning DVDs have been heralded by Fitness, 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.

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