Essential Yoga For Inflexible People
Posted on | January 18, 2010 | 5 Comments
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One of the great gifts of yoga is improved flexibility. Research has shown that improving flexibility and doing yoga helps you feel younger, healthier and lead a more active life style.
The yoga postures developed thousands of years ago were not created for people who are already flexible, but rather to help inflexible people become more flexible. Yoga videos, even those designed for beginners, may be too difficult for some people that lack flexibility. E… More >>
Essential Yoga For Inflexible People
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January 18th, 2010 @ 9:38 pm
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You have a beautiful setting, but for some reason they put her under a canopy. I have never seen this in the Gaiam tapes, and I think they do a much better job. I thought this was a Gaiam video from the cover, but it’s not.
You start out BAM—with the sun salutation. Come on, yoga does not start out BAM with anything, especially something for beginners. You move into yoga with a quieting time, to move you from the go-go-go pace to yoga. If they wanted to do an exercise tape, fine, but yoga does not come from this approach.
The sun salutation is a classic in yoga of slow moving poses, but I just hate it and I always have. It is not easy, and not good for you if you are substantially overweight or have any problem with your knees. They modify it for the inflexible by leaving out part of the salutation and using it with a chair. If you cannot get down on one knee, you will not be able to do this modified sun salutation—so you can chuck this part and the next because the next section is the regular sun salutation. I guess it’s a good idea if you want to continue to use this video once you are not inflexible. But I thought it really did not belong on a video for the inflexible—AT ALL. It’s hard and boring. You go from being on one knee to flattening out your body and being on your hands and toes only.
The third segment starts with mountain pose which is as easy as it gets. It is a standing pose—you stand with your arms to your side and slowly, subtly align your body by raising your knee caps and so forth. You stand there and slowly go over every inch of your body with your mind to make sure it’s all aligned. Yes, it is easy, it’s also as boring as drying paint. I just did not get this video at all.
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Rating: 1 / 5
January 18th, 2010 @ 11:33 pm
I was really disappointed with this video. I hate the fact that it is a voice-over. The “Yogi” is like a robot…it is actually distracting that she is just going without pausing and explaining the proper poses…bad bad DVD.
Rating: 2 / 5
January 18th, 2010 @ 11:35 pm
There are many problems with this DVD, but I will try to keep this to just the biggest, which is its inconsistencies. This disc is riddled with inconsistencies making it difficult to do even know which routine you should be doing! The menu titles of the routines read either “with Chair” or “without Chair” but they are not always correct so you think you’re choosing a section with the chair, but when the routine is over with, you find that a chair was never even mentioned.
Next, we have the routines themselves. Our “Yogi” will say one thing but will be doing something else, which just leads to distraction. As you try to figure out which thing you should be doing, your attention shifts from your body’s alignment to over thinking what’s going on on the DVD so that you can be comfortable with the idea that you’re doing what you’re supposed to. Next thing you know, you’ve hurt yourself.
One more thing and I’ll stop: this video moves very slowly, so if you have problems with your knees, for instance, you will spend a significant amount of time putting a lot of pressure on them in certain standing poses. She holds these positions for a long time (15-30 seconds, give or take) and you will feel them.
Overall, this DVD had a lot of potential, but in the end, it failed… miserably. It seemed rushed, with lower-quality camera work, editing and voice-overs. The “Yogi” also spends the video smiling like she’s in a beauty pageant, which is just silly – it’s supposed to be yoga – not cheesy aerobics! (Ok, those were more than one thing, but they were warranted.)
Rating: 1 / 5
January 19th, 2010 @ 2:29 am
This was my second yoga dvd purchase and while I enjoy it, I would like the flow to be a bit smoother. It’s excellent for instruction and gives you plenty of time to get the pose properly executed, but doesn’t seem to move from one pose to the other in a free flowing manner.
Rating: 4 / 5
January 19th, 2010 @ 3:41 am
I have been using this DVD now for awhile and it has been very helpful to me to improve my flexibility. She explains things very well and understands how to teach things for people like me who wanted to learn yoga but really did not have the ability to reach my toes or truely stretch out without some help.
Rating: 5 / 5