Trudy Styler's New Green Living Yoga DVD

Sting's serene missus and her personal trainer James D'Silva, who trained as a ballet dancer in his native Goa, India, lead two beautifully-produced yoga/ballet-type combo workouts in her new DVD series produced by Gaiam and filmed in Tuscany. If you're a Sting fanatic who wants to increase strength, flexibility and balance, you can't go wrong with these mostly yoga-like routines backed up by treasured tunes (at least on my iPod) from Sting's CD "Songs from the Labyrinth." What's not to like about Sting and yoga -- in Italy, of all places. Sign me up.

The intermediate mind-body routines were filmed at the Grammy winner's Il Palagio estate in Tuscany, an unbelievably-gorgeous backdrop. During filming, trainer D'Silva has impeccable alignment during Sun Salutations and basic flow postures while offering more advanced modifications of most poses. It's motivating to see that Trudy looks like a regular person (who just happens to be hitched to a rock star) doing regular-person yoga -- which is helpful and inspiring to novice exercisers.

DVD bonus material is a veritable feast for the senses. Segments include a grand tour of Il Palagio's kitchen and gardens, where more than 70 percent of the food comes from the estate itself, including products sold to the public such as honey and olive oil. There's an informative behind-the-scenes look at how Il Palagio uses the surrounding land to create a self-sustaining and eco-friendly house that runs on bio-fuels, as well as a discussion with the happy couple about their conversion of estate lands into biodynamic vineyards and their organic wine label. A percentage of DVD profits will go towards the Unicef Ecuador Water Project, which provides rainwater collection and filtration tanks to polluted communities in the Ecuadoran rainforest.

When you get a few minutes, try these gentle yoga routines, too.