Total Stretch for Beginners
No (Downward) Dogs Allowed! I’ll admit, I went into this review of Total Stretch for Beginners with some preconceived notions. The DVD blurb said something about being for people who find yoga too difficult, boring […]
Relaxation
Budokon Beginning Practice
Dogs and Cats and Snakes, Oh My! This week’s selection, Budokon Beginning Practice, had two strikes against it before it even got started. First, according to the insert in the DVD, this is part of […]
Shiva Rea: Flow Yoga for Beginners
Go with the flow … Today’s selection, Shiva Rea: Flow Yoga for Beginners, is a 70 minute yoga practice, broken into 5 sections: Foundation Flow (15 minutes), Beginner’s Backbend Flow (20 minutes), Relaxing Flexibility Flow […]
Qigong for Beginners
Chi Off on the Wrong Foot This week’s DVD is Qigong for Beginners, a two-disc set offering an approximately 70-minute workout and 55-minute documentary on qigong. The documentary was created by Garri Garripoli, and the […]
Meditation for Beginners
Balancing Act This week we’re reviewing Meditation for Beginners. Sometimes it’s important to focus on your mind … the other half of the mind-body connection. Also, my body is still feeling pretty clobbered from last […]
Candlelight Yoga
Yoga is not a competition. This week’s review is Crunch’s Candlelight Yoga, led by instructor Sara Ivanhoe. On the surface, the DVD is pretty basic, with a 42-minute relaxing yoga workout and a 15-minute energizing […]
A.M. Yoga for Your Week
Sssshhhh! Your eyes are too loud! This week I’m reviewing Rodney Yee’s A.M. Yoga for Your Week, breaking a five-week tradition of reviewing DVDs where the instructor is wearing a blue tank top on the […]
Get Moving with Chris Freytag
You had me at “Elvis”. Today we’re reviewing Get Moving with Chris Freytag, from Prevention Fitness. This is a DVD I bought on a whim from a Collage Video super sale (back when they were […]
Just My Size Yoga
Don’t get your pantyhose in a twist! Is it weird to have an exercise DVD put out by a plus-size hosiery company? Yes. Does it necessarily follow that the DVD is no good? Absolutely not. […]
T’ai Chi Beginning Practice
It’s all done with smoke and mirrors … When they stopped offering the tai chi class I’d been taking at my gym, I started looking for a tai chi DVD that I could do at […]