Yoga for the Rest of Us Easy Yoga for Easing Pain with Peggy Cappy

Over 40 now, I have always been active, but this winter I had a sudden onset of back pain and weakness in my muscles. This DVD is not difficult, but the stretches you do, do amazing things for your body. I could feel and briefly hear things realign the first time I used it. With each use I gained even more flexibility, and pain dissipated after the first viewing and disappeared after the second! Amazing... when you do the exercises you think they are so easy... but the results are literally healing! This DVD is for everyone - young or old! Highly Recommend! p.s. DVD works well on Mac. Hello again... I see some follow-up questions are being asked, so posting the DVD description to clarify. "In Easy Yoga for Easing Pain, Peggy provides a path to relief for you if you suffer from varying levels of pain in your muscles or joints. Peggy's newest routine demonstrates yoga movements that can increase your flexibility, reduce joint pain, even combat fatigue and enhance overall wellbeing. Unrelenting joint pain can be a result of arthritis, injury, or repetitive motion, and it can affect anyone. All too often, pain becomes a vicious cycle, making us hesitant to be active. This gentle yoga workout presents a reasonable plan to help pain sufferers overcome this cycle and transform their lives. This four-part yoga routine includes: Seated exercises and yoga poses for the upper body. Seated exercise and yoga poses for the lower body. Standing yoga sequence for the hips and legs, with the aid of a chair if needed. Relaxation and meditation. Plus, there are 3 BONUS sections on Easy Yoga for Easing Pain: Resistance Band Exercise, using stretchy bands to both warm-up and strengthen core muscles in your shoulders, upper back, and chest. Bounce and Shake, a tried-and-true, simple exercise from Qi Gong that is fun, easy, and has the ability to generate energy throughout your body. Documentary: Meet Peggy's real-life students whose aches and pains were eased with the introduction of a simple yoga routine. Easy Yoga for Easing Pain - Yoga for the Rest of Us DVD Contents Track Title/Description Time 1 Introduction 6:20 2 Part 1: Upper Body: Seated Exercises and Yoga Poses 11:30 3 Part 2: Lower Body: Seated Exercises and Yoga Poses 14:34 4 Part 3: Standing Yoga Sequence for the Hips and Legs 18:44 5 Part 4: Relaxation and Meditation 9:31 6 Bonus - Resistance Band Exercises 13:38 7 Bonus - Bounce and Shake 4:54 8 Bonus - Documentary: Easing Pain Through Yoga 37:30 Read more

Love this DVD. It's kind of like doing your own physical therapy to control aches and pain. Her directions are very clear. Some is done in a chair, some standing, and some laying down. At first this seemed easier than Ms. Cappy's "Strength and Balance" DVD, but it definitely still offers challenges for my 55 year old body. I shared it with someone who is much less agile and they thought it was hard - so it really is all in your perspective, since we all start in a different place physically. I have 2 of her DVD's so far and may buy more in the future... The feature about the benefits of yoga at the end is inspiring since it relates how normal, middle aged people, like me benefit from yoga. It also shows those in the senior citizen range who manage to remain much more healthy and active, because of doing yoga. Read more

This is easy to use with understandable directions and demonstrations. There are options for standing or using a chair for balance. It is broken down into segments so you can use one or many as you feel that day. There is a relaxation piece at the end which is optional but rejoyable Read more

I wanted to add to the reviews here because this DVD is already doing wonderful things for me. I'm 30, and was diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis last year - I've had chronic pain issues for about 4 years. Before my pain started, I loved yoga and had gotten into doing it regularly - I was still a beginner and most of what I did was quite gentle, but I knew what I was doing. Over the last few years, whenever I've tried to do any kind of poses on my own or following my old favorite DVD's, no matter how gentle, I would be in pain afterward (and not the good kind of pain either). It was extraordinarily frustrating, but I finally figured that I needed to find DVD routines specifically targeted for people with chronic pain and/or arthritis so that the poses that could hurt me or aggravate my pain could be automatically weeded out. I saw this DVD here on Amazon, and after I read the description I was a bit skeptical. The routines seemed fairly basic, on the shorter side, and the hurt pride part of me was sort of offended at the idea of doing yoga in a chair =). Hard to get used to the limitations your body can set on you. In any case, I decided to pick this up based solely on the reviews and how enthusiastic people seemed to be about Peggy Cappy's materials. And the enthusiasm was warranted. This ended up being precisely what I needed. I needed a set of routines that could be strung together if I wanted to do them all the way through, or broken up if I only felt up to doing one or two at a time. I actually didn't realize I needed this until I used the DVD =). I also needed a practitioner who felt calming and friendly and like someone who's face I wanted to look at every day to get into a regular practice - so far so good, I really like her style. And her sidekick who demonstrates alternative poses is pretty funny =). Finally and most important, I really needed a routine that would get to the point and guide me carefully through poses that both respected the limitations of my body, but also challenged it to function better. After making it all the way through her set of routines, I have to say this really does both. I was pretty surprised. Even the chair stuff really challenged my joints, muscles, and muscle attachments in a positive way. The after-effect lasts for a few days - my anxiety has gone down, and I'm actually sore in a POSITIVE way that I remember from having done yoga before - she's gently challenging my body in a way it truly needed. So in sum this is really great for me - if there's anyone out there who's story is similar to mine, this might be a great fit. The only thing wrong with this DVD is that I wish there was more on it! Read more

I"m sure this is probably a great video but I've not watched it. After purchasing it I found so many online yoga videos that were easy to watch off my laptop that I've just not bothered to put it on my dvd. My fault, not the products. Read more