Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc Language: English (Original Language) Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: DVD Running Time: 64 minutes Number Of Items: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
Product Description Yoga is a wonderful way to help you keep fit, relieve stress, and ease your everyday experiences. Filmed on a beautifully serene location overlooking the Pacific Ocean, these two 30-minute programs will help you realize all the benefits of yoga by unveiling a new connection between your body and mind. The AM sequence enhances basic poses with gentle repetitions to invigorate, tone, and streamline your body while reconnecting to your breathing in a new way every time you practice. The PM sequence in designed to dissolve stress as it lengthens and opens your muscles. You'll learn to use your alignment to expand your breathing capacity, nourishing your body and balancing your entire being.
About the Instructor: Elena Brower, Certified Anusara Yoga teacher, encourages you to invite yoga?s healing beneficence into every realm of your life. She is the founder of Virayoga in New York City and author of Alchemy, A Glossary. Named one of New York City?s top yoga teachers by Fit Yoga magazine, Elena?s clients include Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Watts, Minnie Driver, Eva Mendes, Christy Turlington and Rebecca Romijn.
Extensive help in body awareness & very calming w/o ever thinking it's boring December 28, 2008 LCW on September 27, 2008 wrote a great detailed review explaining the moves in the 25-30 min each two sessions. Elena Brower did a great job here of creating flow & keeping the pace calming, slow enough for you to be able to feel how the poses benefit your body, yet fast enough that today's rushed feeling population won't feel bored. She has a great voice that is never irritating or forced slow voiceover like some other yoga dvds. She teaches YOUR left/right so you can mirror her image & follow easily. I've tried over 150 yoga dvds & there are not that many I feel have body awareness like Elena. She has done a great job of telling you what body parts to be aware of in terms of changes & she's very accurate. She will ask you which lung feels more open & to breathe and put focus on them so they are both more open & I never realized my left lung felt soo tight & in the several seconds it really helped open up my breathing capacity. Everything she said was perfect, not too much info, not too little. Even though I was in a rush & normally I'll FFW through child's pose or simple resting sitting poses, I didn't want to miss anything she might teach/say. This is for beginners, the AM will be more likely to make you sweat, though it's for beginners. If it's not hard enough, you can always go deeper into the pose, hold harder poses longer (replay portion/pause dvd as well), do downward dog with only 1 leg 3 legged down dog), etc. Yoga dvds are very versatile depending on endurance level & beginner dvds tend to have more rest periods, so you can hold or re-do a hard pose while they are resting. If you want it easier, you can get out & rest sooner then the instructor. The PM is more about easy stretches that won't make you sweat & to relax you to help you sleep. I find any workouts that don't incorporate body awareness is a waste as well as boring. To be taught to be more aware is empowering as well as feeling of more benefit other then calorie burn or muscle building & positive feeling during & after. This feeling will carry over to mood as well & effect your interaction with the world around you in a better way. The only yoga dvd instructors I love that are very calming w/o being boring or annoying w/TRUE body awareness are: Rodney Yee, Rainbow Mars, Seane Corn, Gurutej Kaur, Kristin Mcgee, Wai Lana, Kristen Strohecker, Max Strom, Teigh McDonough, Ateeka, Jacquie Noelle Greaux, Shiva Rea (only for those with endurance) & now add Elena Brower. Non-yoga/non-belly or latin dance fitness body awareness instructors: Duncan Wong, Kari Anderson, Liz Gillies, Stephanie Herman, Rael Isacowitz
If you want to take charge of your health, not just lose calories/build muscle (though yoga does that great as well), more body awareness w/o feeling it a mindless workout, give this a chance.
Namaste! December 24, 2008 Great beginers Yoga. I suffer with terrible back pain, and I find that this dvd helps me relax and loosen my muscles. The poses aren't difficult, but you do need to do this on at least a semi-regular basis.
A good program for beginners, very relaxing November 20, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this because I like to stay somewhat flexible for playing golf. I've tried Yoga a couple of times before and found that it seems to put a lot of pressure on the joints while not really stretching the muscles all that much. I was fairly pleased with this program, as it doesn't seem to put much pressure on the joints. The poses are easy, feel good, and I think you get a nice stretch. I was surprised to find just how relaxing Yoga can be: some of the poses are held for moderate periods of time, while the instructor has you breathing in and out. It's really quite soothing.
I give it 4 stars instead of 5 because the routines get a bit long. For something you're supposed to do every morning and evening, I think 30 minutes gets a bit time consuming, 20 would have been better.
Overall though, I like this program and feel that it's a good choice for beginners. I didn't find any of the poses particularly hard at all - the hardest part is trying to do the poses correctly when you're facing away from the TV screen. You have to do it a few times to learn them all correctly.
Good for beginners November 20, 2008 This DVD has good routines, and is definitely geared towards beginners or those who prefer a more slow-moving yoga practice. I personally prefer to continue moving rather than holding poses while listening to the instructor talk. But it was very relaxing, and overall provided nice routines.
Good exercise November 19, 2008 I have had multiple sclerosis for years and while I get around just fine I have limited tolerance for exercise. Yoga, with its emphasis on gentle stretch, posture, balance and breathing is perfect for anyone with a limited capacity for exercise. The only downside was having to travel to participate in a class, since I no longer drive and had to rely on my wonderful husband for transportation. I was glad to find this excellent DVD and have been using it faithfully several times a week. The exercises are clearly demonstrated, well-paced and enjoyable.
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