Yoga

Yoga (Jóga) is a music and video DVD combining gentle music by Friðrik Karlsson with simple yoga exercises led by María Ellingsen. Friðrik, who is passionate about personal growth, wanted to create beautiful music for people who practise yoga and asked his former schoolmate María to join him. María is known as an actor, director, writer and teacher, but Friðrik knew she had practised yoga since her school years. Yoga has many facets; María first learned postures, breathing and relaxation, but has deepened her practice and understanding year by year, taking courses in yoga philosophy and staying in a monastery in India, where yoga has its roots. Yoga promotes health, strengthens body and soul, and creates balance, relaxation and peace of mind. Its purpose is to travel out of the bonds of the mind and into the core, where mind, body and soul unite. Friðrik and María’s release is intended as provisions for that journey. The exercises were filmed outdoors in Icelandic nature, where the beauty of the moss and the ripples on the water merge with the gentle music and birdsong.