Yoga For Inflexible People

I went to the library and checked out all the beginner level yoga videos they had. I previewed them all. When I came across Yoga for Inflexible People I immediately went to Amazon and ordered my own copy. Now retired from too many accidents, I have been an equestrian for 38 years and polo player for 25 for those years. I have experienced my share of accidents over those many years. All reflected in my neck, spine, hips and right knee. There are 35 segments to select from so I started with the short segments. One each day. I noticed a positive difference every day. I took it slow and easy. I stuck with it every day. It has been six months now and the overall improvement has been amazing. Prior to Yoga for Inflexible People, at age 55 with all those old riding injuries, I saw the future as being a downhill road to greater pain, weight gain, and saw no possible means to change what I perceived as a bleak outlook for my future. Because of this video, everything has turned around for me. I can see a future now where I can have the balance, flexibility and strength I always desired. And, this video is the beginning of that road for me. More than that, people who have known me for years, when they see me, ask me what I am doing differently. I tell them all about this video. Most times, I go home to my computer, get on-line and order them a copy of the DVD from Amazon and have it sent as a gift. Based on my experience, I highly recommend this video.

This DVD is very instructional and gives great tips for posture, props and correct positioning. Each pose is treated individually and prompted with a name page and then an instructor showing and giving direction. There is no music and this is not a vinyasa flow DVD. I prefer those that lead you through a flowing practice from start to finish. This would be very good for a beginner who wishes to learn the correct technique of each pose and how to avoid injuring yourself.

While the DVD has many Yoga activities, it is very difficult to see what the instructor is doing. The back ground color is too dark. Should have a much lighter background color. Also should have some close up shots to help explain what she is doing. Would not recommend this DVD..

first, i think the woman demonstrating the moves was fine. this is YOGA, not freakin aerobics, for crying out loud. i for one am perfectly happy to have someone who doesn't have a plastic smile pasted on her face showing me the moves. i'm not looking for inspiration, i'm looking for instruction. for one thing, the woman they film is not the one speaking at least in the bits i viewed. SHE is not the instructor, or if she is, it's not obvious. therefore, she is simply executing the moves described in the voice-over. i found her perfectly human, and if she's not dynamic or animated enough for some people, that doesn't make her a zombie. i bought this video with some trepidation having read these reviews and want to say i found them a bit ridiculously overstated. everyone is entitled to their opinion, and that's fine, but if you are put off by reading this, just please know if you want a demonstration, that's what you are going to get, if you want charismatic leadership, you might want a different video. but i wouldn't assume that you will find this model is somehow inhuman because she isn't emoting all over the place. with all that said. i was looking for a dvd with some brief workouts. i think is a good instructional video for yoga, particularly for beginners. i did find sometimes the voiceover and the modelling did not match up, the voiceover seemed to give some instructions which were just not modelled, but i did not find this interfered too much overall. the voiceover was more helpful in doing the little things that were almost imperceptable, like "widening the inner thigh" type moves. understanding the special vocabulary was sometimes confusing. for instance, with a real novice, do they really know what it means to "lengthen the spine" or "flare the collarbone" - am i really doing what she is telling me to do? maybe i need to go back to the dvd and see if there is an introductory workout, but, if there is, i probably already passed on it because it was too long for me to get into. i also found that sometimes the instructions were confusing to me as a novice. i did not find enough brief workouts to be useful to me. also, you will need props, which was disappointing. they used, in the two that i viewed, a chair and blankets. i really need something that is bare bones. at least they aren't using the props to promote their own products, they are things you can find around the home. i think if you want to really learn yoga, this is probably a good instructional dvd to have in your collection - whether it is the best, especially for a sole purchase, depends on what else it out there. if you want to do yoga simply to stretch and gain some of the health benefits more than as a practice, and particularly if you are looking for a library of brief practices, you may not be so happy with this one. i will probably end up buying another dvd, but i'm did give this four stars, and i expect to continue to use it, just not for the original reason i bought it.

I had a terrible accident almost 11 years ago, and after that everything hurt, so I stopped doing the things that hurt, and I became my body's worst enemy, all my muscles got tight and uncomfortable, and a few times a year my back would go out and that seemed, while terrible, normal. I got down on the fit path, and I do a very good workout routine now, but I still hated stretching because I was so inflexible, and the back still went out. I moved from stretching into this yoga video. It might not be like a complete smooth routine, but you can plan your own routine from the dvd menu screen. And you are slowly learning to move your body into a more flexible structure. I suppose the philosophy of yoga is not explained very well if at all, however, right now my concern is to get my body back to mostly limber. Once I feel that these positions have helped me do that I will hopefully move on to full routines. If you have wanted to try yoga but are either overweight or inflexible, this program is a very gentle, sensible introduction to allow you to try and not feel foolish. This program can be tailored to fit your needs every day, you can choose a strength program, a flexibility program or relaxation or energizing. You can also move between the body parts you would like to exercise, your back, your hips, your arms, your legs, you get the picture. That is how you can build up to 35 different programs. This was really what I was looking for. This is for the beginner, who has been intimidated by yoga in the past.

I have used other yoga cd's over the years, but I am very inflexible by nature and thought I would try this out. Easy paced practice well suited for a beginner, shows various positions utilizing inexpensive props. I found this cd to be useful and enjoy the practice utilizing props to better assist my tight muscles to release.

When I first received this I watched it, as was recommended. My first reaction was "are they doing anything,? but once I actually started doing the poses it was o.k. The music is soothing, the background boring, but it's starting to grow on me.