Chantal Pierrat Soul Sweat - Review

Chantal Pierrat's Soul Sweat is a dance based workout set to an awesome soundtrack.  Chantal and her background dancers take you through a series of dance combos that use expansive movement to increase the energy and up the intensity.  The cast is barefoot.  The set is very moody  and use lighting that compliments the workouts.  
 

DVD Menu
Play
Select Chapters
      Tutorial
      Deep Sweat (46 mins)
      Quick Sweat (30 mins)
      Stretch
Special Features
      Music
      Dancers
      Class Interview
      Clothing
      Sound True

If you click 'Play', Chantal introduces you to the program and takes you through a Step by Step Tutorial of the basic steps and the combos.  This segment is around 24 minutes.  I am guessing the dances automatically follow after the tutorial.

You can also select just the Tutorial from the Select Chapters menu.  Once here, you can select a particular song and review the steps that appear in the song. I did not do the tutorial.

The main workout Deep Sweat is 46 minutes. In this workout, Chantal takes you through nine dance songs.  The dances are pretty basic, not a huge learning curve. She introduces a pattern and then she repeats the combo throughout the song.  In between each song, there is a lot free-styling going on.

Quick Sweat is a premix and thus includes a subset of the songs used in Deep Sweat.

Stretch segment is approximately 15-minutes and uses a combination of yoga and gentle stretching. A mat is used in this segment.

Deep Sweat - 46 minutes
The Songs
Song 1 Raindance by Maneesh de Moor
Song 2 Awakening by Aine Minogue
Song 3 Maghi Re by Ustand Sulton Khan
Song 4 Brasilero by Shaman's Dream
Song 5 Back to Dreamtime by Shaman's Dream
Song 6 Palmonte by One at Last 
Song 7 Re-awakening the Spirits by Body Holregod
Song 8 Trance Latina by Gypsy Moon
Song 9 - Prana by Shaman's Dream

Quick Sweat - 31 minutes
Song 2 Awakening by Aine Minogue
Song 3 Maghi Re by Ustand Sulton Khan
Song 4 Brasilero by Shaman's Dream
Song 5 Back to Dream Time by Shaman's Dream
Song 7 Re-awakening the Spirits by Body Holregod
Song 8 Trance Latina by Gypsy Moon

I have had this workout for awhile now and I am just getting around to do it. I  like the easy vibe of the workout and the music was great to dance to.

4 stars

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