Basic Yoga Workout for Dummies
Basic Yoga Workout for Dummies
This workout will de-mystify the mystical so that anyone can experience the fabulous benefits of yoga. Today, many people use yoga to help alleviate back pain, reduce stress, and increase flexibility.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Very Good Introduction To Yoga
Sara presents a series of poses on this DVD which help form a basis of starting a yoga practice with very through and precise instruction and alignment, which is important and then provides some additional more challenging material – challenging in the sense that it really is for beginners but a bit of a step up.
It is a good reference DVD to form a nice groundwork and one of a couple I refer to now for my practice.
5 Stars great place to start with yoga
This is a great yoga practice that anyone can do without expert help. You really feel great after doing yoga and this is easy breezy to do. You don’t have to be perfect at yoga to benefit from it, just the focus for a few minutes can make you feel so good. Absolutely worth trying.
4 Stars Basic yet slow-moving yoga workout for beginners
I am a neophyte when it comes to yoga, and in many respects this DVD was an excellent resource. Instructor Sara Ivanhoe, who is clearly an accomplished yoga instructor, walks the viewer through the most basic “daily dozen” yoga moves in about 45 minutes. Each move is explained carefully and is held for six breaths as Ms. Ivanhoe demonstrates the move. From this foundation, Ms. Ivanhoe explains slightly more advanced poses and techniques, but we’re definitely talking approachable, manageable stuff for beginners.
All this is supplemented by the usual “For Dummies” learning aids, like mythbusters and jargon translators. All in all, this is a helpful introduction to the world of yoga.
Why only four stars? Because the workout moves so slowly. After the second time through the DVD, I didn’t need the detailed explanation of each move and simply wanted Ms. Ivanhoe to guide me through the workout without exposition. Unfortunately, there is no “efficient workout” option on the menu, so once you’re familiar with the poses, you’re going to need to keep the remote handy so you can fastforward through her speeches.
This is nothing against Ms. Ivanhoe as an instructor – she’s both knowledgeable and, admittedly, very easy on the eyes. I’m not getting dirty here – it’s essential for a beginner to watch how to do these poses correctly, so it helps to have an attractive, proficient instructor when you’re watching the same thing over and over again.
So while a yoga DVD is preferable to a yoga book in that you get to watch an actual person do the entire pose – as opposed to a mere snapshot contained in a book – the inability to excise the lengthy exposition of each pose is a bit of a problem. Therefore, the DVD isn’t excellent and isn’t worth five stars. But it’s clearly worth four, and any beginner should give it a try before spending money on an expensive yoga class.
3 Stars Ummm… Dummies.. No, VERY beginner? YES
This is a great addtion to the beginners library of yoga… however, after you’ve watched it more than 2 or 3 times you’re going to be ready for something new. The teacher does an excellent job discribing the postures, however this may become TOO much once you’re ready to start flowing in your postures. Being able to choose from the chapters what postures you want to work on at any given time is a great also. ASIN:B001DDY6RG TAMARA’S YOGA FUSION]]
5 Stars Best for beginners
I borrowed this from the library because of the reviews stating it was so basic that you might only watch it a few times. I plan to buy it now though because it is so helpful to an absolute beginner like myself and the slower pace is more relaxing to me. I believe the Yoga for Dummies will better prepare me for the Yoga Journal DVDs which I also enjoy, but am not quite ready for yet.
I’d also mention that my eight year old loves to do this with me and asked me to purchase more of Sara Ivanhoe’s DVDs.
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