Yoga for Beginners Boxed Set Yoga for Stress Relief AM-PM Yoga for Beginners Essential Yoga for Inflexible People

I have been using these DVDs for 6 months. I am not new to yoga practice but found that the "Essential Yoga for Inflexible People" DVD provides excellent step by step guidance about how to perform each pose that is lacking from the other DVDs that I have been using for the past 2 years. I will admit that I was annoyed a bit by the repetition once I was familiar with each routine but stuck with it because I wanted to make sure I did not hurt my back. Her consistent reminders to lift the spine before moving further into a pose have become habit for me and I feel that I no longer risk injuring my back by pushing into the poses. Working through these routines has enabled me to practice yoga with more advanced DVDs because I know the correct way to get into (and out of) many of the poses. A downside is that they use cut and pasted sequences to create the full routines (less expensive to produce) so if you do a focused routine (leg work, for example) and then a full routine, there will be repetition. However, the variety of routines on the 3 DVDs is very good, almost too much in the beginning, but a lot to choose from once you become familiar with the offerings. I use stickie notes to remind myself what is on each DVD so that I can choose the one that suits my needs for each yoga session. These DVDs attempt to provide the more spiritual side of yoga with the beach setting but are really more for someone who is trying to learn the poses and/or strengthen specific areas of the body. I rated this set a 5 because I believe that they deliver what they promise for a very reasonable price. Read more

I am new to yoga other than a few classes some years ago where I wasnt into the slow pace of it. I was a runner for 10 years & thats all I wanted to do. After doing nothing for about a year I was stiff and tired and have no energy. Started this program right after Christmas and its getting better..The 2 instructors on this set really talk you into the poses so you can feel when its right.Has many routines for Am & Pm and different lengths depending on how much time you have and longer routines for when you`re ready to move forward.Ane believe me Yoga is Not a walk in the park.Its a very nice workout and wonderful for stiff muscles... Just ordered the Yoga for weight loss with Maggie Rhoads--(one of the instructors on the beginners dvd) I really like her instruction & although I dont need to lose weight-just want to do a little more challenging workout as I get better at it..Its a really good set of DVDs and a Lot for the money! Read more

These DVDs are great. The one for inflexible people modifies the poses into easier versions.for people who aren't too limber just yet. Even I can manage to do the easy routines on this disc, and I'm an obese couch potato, trying to lose weight, at 260lbs. I've had to choose the easiest parts of each routine and put them into action, because my heart and weak sedentary-life body can't handle the more demanding poses just yet, but someone who ISN'T obese and keeps at least a somewhat active lifestyle, should find all these routines a breeze to complete. The voice over is pretty straight forward, enough that you can follow what it says and not have to constantly look at the screen to see what the model is doing. Sometimes the voice over is a bit behind the actual motions in the video, but I think this only happens in the second time around for certain poses. I like how the people who do the Yoga in these DVDs, aren't the perfect-body, slender, sexy, zero body fat, model types. But instead, they are regular, middle aged women (one of them is the Yoga teacher who's famous, yet her name escapes me), with average bodies and even if they are incredibly flexible and strong, you can also make out a lil belly fat on them and that very lack of perfection is something that I find very interesting and useful for one of these DVDs. I can actually RELATE to these people. The AM-PM yoga is amazing as well. Again, some poses are too demanding for me, but for a younger, less chunky person, it should all go easy and once you master all these, you'd be well on your way to a better, healthier body and mind. My favorite is Yoga For Stress Relief, because it has relaxing guided meditations and breathing exercises that truly put you in a mood that can't happen without such sessions. It puts an easy smile on your face and your body feels amazing. Corpse pose is a godsend. Highly recommend this boxset, as you may notice. Read more