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| |  | Yoga and Fitness | Home » » » Yoga For Beginners | | | | | | | Description: | | From the Editors of Body + Soul Magazine comes a new line of DVDs designed to excite, inform, inspire and encourage your quest toward a balanced and healthy whole life.
YOGA FOR BEGINNERS is the perfect way to be introduced to Yoga and it helps you to explore and experience the numerous benefits of yoga. There are 8 routines to help build strength, increase flexibility, improve your health and vitality and transform how you look and feel.
Routines are led by renowned instructor Barbara Benagh who expertly leads you through tailored workouts ranging from 10 to 60 minutes. YOGA FOR BEGINNERS was filmed on location at one of the most beautiful, tranquil beaches in the world, Half-Moon Bay, Antigua, which adds to the overall experience of tranquility.
DVD HIGHLIGHTS:
-8 Customized, Targeted Routines
-Exclusive Interview with the Instructor
-Routines from 10 - 60 Minutes
-Includes articles from Body + Soul magazine | | | Product Details: | | | Format:
| Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| bodywisdom media, inc. | | DVD Release Date:
| October 24, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 169 reviews |
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 Perfect introduction to yoga!!Mar 14, 2010
I bought this for my wife and she absolutly love it. She used this while waiting for a Yoga class that fit her schedule. She told me that it was exactly what she needed.
Comprehensive Beginners DVD With Alot Of VarietyMar 13, 2010
When the DVD beings you come to a menu with a few selections. Take the time to look at the interview with the instructor and the general information on using the DVD that are on this menu. There are also selections to two sections - getting started and as you progress.
The Getting Started section is just what it sounds like and introduces you to many movements and poses. There are five sections to work with (which are all around 20 - 30 minutes or so) The sections in Getting Started are Backbends (includes the locust pose, seated backbends and the cobra pose), Standing Poses (inlcuding the tree pose, triangle pose, and warrior pose), Strength And Balance (including plank and boat pose), Sun Salutations and Seated Hip Opener (various poses performed on the floor)
None of the poses repeat between any section in the Getting Started section, in other words nothing in the Seated Hip Openers is in the Standing Poses for instance. There is over 2 dozen poses which covers many of the commom yoga poses in the almost two hours of material in the Getting Started section.
The As You Progress section uses the items learned in the Getting Started to create longer routines with specific goals, such as quieting. Since yoga will use the same pose in different workouts, some items may be used in more than one routine but most are used 1 or 2 times other than a relaxation at the end of each workout, which is how many yoga workouts end from what I have learned. As You Progress also adds some additional poses that were not in the getting started section, so there is even more varitey. The routines: Basics, Energizing, Strength, Rejuvenate and Quieting.
A great DVD to learn yoga with an extensive amount of yoga poses and routines to learn and work with.
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 Same thing over and overMar 12, 2010
I just got this dvd after reading great reviews. I watched all of it (most in fast forward because she is so slow) and I have to say I am not impressed. Although she takes the time to explain breathing and technique, there is really only one long routine and then edited and labeld with different titles. So when you click on the "rejuvinating" part it is a 20 minute clip of the long routine. Also, 2/3 of the video are breathing exercises (which I think are good) but way excessive. Then there is way too much laying on your back stretching with little yoga poses.
Some of the women from my churh (most over 45) and I did a few of these routines together before we all decided that is more for meditaion and less 'yoga'. I do agree that this is a good video for beginers #someone who has never even heard of yoga, but it doesn't offer enough yoga. If you enjoy doing different poses #not just lying on the ground stretching# then I do not suggest this video. I mean even the senior citizens from church were left wanting more.
My suggestion is to buy a video (used is possible# of basic poses in step by step form. Do that a few times until you have the poses down. Then get an intermediate video and do the routines that you feel comfortable with. At least that way you are getting a good strength and flexibility work out routine.
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Great DVDMar 01, 2010
This DVD really helped me learn yoga well. The instruction is clear and the cues and recommendations for adjustments were easy to follow and worthwhile. Very good use of the different angles to show what the teacher was speaking about throughout the poses. As a beginner, this worked out very well for me.
 Ok but a little boringMar 01, 2010
This video just didn't interest me. I've done a fair amount of yoga at the gym, but really wanted a good workout video to use at home. Unfortunately, this video wasn't it. I only ended up using it 2 or 3 times and was so bored with it, I didn't want to go back. I would suggest trying something else -- If I find something better I'll gladly post it here.
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