Yoga For Beginners
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Movie Reviews of Yoga For Beginners
Movie Review: Great for Beginners
Summary: 5 Stars
Whether you're preparing for a class or learning yoga on your own, a DVD really helps to ground you in the basics. I found Yoga for Beginners a great, relaxing way to get a handle on core positions.
You start out by watching the basic area. This area has short segments that help you understand the starting moves. The aim here is to watch each short segment - and practice the moves - until they start to make sense to you.
They have 10 minute backbends, 20 minute standing poses, 20 minute strength / balance, 20 minute sun salutations, 30 minute seated hip openers. You'll find some of these might be challenging for your current strength and bend ability - but this is actually great! It means you have something to look forward to as you improve and grow. If everything was super easy at the beginning, the DVD wouldn't be much help! So you practice these moves for a while, figuring out which you can do and which you need to work on.
Then you go on to the actual full workout sessions. There is 70 minute basics, 40 minute energizing, 70 minute strength, 30 minute rejuvinate, and 55 minute quieting. Each segment has its own focus, so you can easily pick and choose which one you're going to work on. You might find some easy and relaxing. Others might be a bit challenging at the beginning.
So for example the quieting session was really relaxing, lovely, stretchy. On the other hand, the strength session involves some moves that I had to just watch. My arm strength wasn't up there yet. However, I could do much of it and it definitely was building up strength - and I look forward to when I can do it all start to finish.
The background is simply gorgeous, with the gentle ocean, the sands and the blue skies. It really helps me to feel peaceful and relaxed. The woman's voice is peaceful, calm, and provides a lot of great pointers for adjusting poses based on your current skill level.
Highly recommended for beginners - and the DVD will "grow with you" to allow you to keep enjoying it even as you improve.
Movie Review: Yes, this is the real beginner yoga dvd to start with
Summary: 5 Stars
Appreciate all the detail from prior reviewers. Spent a lot of time reading reviews of all "beginner" yoga DVDs. Glad this was the one I chose. Recovering from pulling lower back muscle & needed to expand from couple stretching exercises from Doctor. I watched thru entire DVD as suggested & you need to as well. Parts were hard to just sit thru & watch, but fast forward came in handy for parts of the process. Appreciated ability to pick & choose which beginner sections I wanted to do (differing lengths), can't do all of them in 1 day; able to choose couple of different program lengths to suit schedule & could focus right now on lower back. Looking foward to expanding to do the rest of the beginner sections and move on to the next level exercises - would be further along, but I gotta get my back muscles strong again. Nice menu set up & easier to follow than I expected. I can see where 1 reviewer was a bit impatient, one of the initial 30 min programs seems to be best done after a long day at work because basically relaxation, but it does teach breathing very well. I'll be able to take that lesson into all my exercising, not just yoga. Glad I chose this one to start, never done Yoga before & sure miss my regular exercising at least 1 hour 5x/week combining powerwalking, bicycling, Kathy Smith/Karen Voight/few other DVDs. So easy to gain weight. At least I feel like I'm doing something effective with these yoga exercises. I don't feel tired when done, actually feel like I've exerted myself without worrying about slight strain in my back from the twists, it goes away in just a few minutes and has gotten less "strained" as I continue. Been at it 2 weeks now. Also purchased Kathy Smith Yoga Sculpt & Yoga For Weight Loss - both say for beginners, (I've only watched them for right now)- like prior reviewers wrote - This is the one to start with.Movie Review: Very helpful
Summary: 5 Stars
I decided to buy a yoga DVD after taking a yoga class and becoming distressed at how weak and stiff I was. I bought this DVD because of the many positive reviews.
The DVD is good for absolute beginners. It's challenging, but not discouragingly so. You can do it even if you're not strong and not flexible. I like the fact that there are different sequences, one as short as 10 minutes, so that I can mix it up a little and don't get really bored. Also, I can squeeze a sequence in even if I have very little time. I especially like the backbends one.
Barbara's voice is calming and her directions are very good. Sometimes it seems like she's there in the room, since her comments always seem to be on target. She's not there to dazzle you with her agility or to shame you into injuring yourself, but to teach you how to do the poses properly. She gives adequate time to transition from pose to pose. She gives alternatives for those who are more and less capable.
So far, I have only done one sequence in the Extended Routines section of the DVD. I don't recall which one, but I admit I was a little disappointed; it was longer, but not harder than the ones in the Getting Started section. However, some of the other ones may be much harder.
I don't think this will be the only DVD I ever use, but most likely, no DVD could play that role. If I lived near Barbara, I would not hesitate to study with her. Since that's not possible and since I do get bored (I've been using the DVD every morning for weeks now), I will probably soon purchase something that has even more targeted sequences (for arms, glutes, abs, or even another strength one that's just different). However, I think it's excellent for encouraging someone who may be apprehensive and/or at a very beginning stage while still teaching "real" yoga.
Movie Review: no longer intimidated by yoga
Summary: 5 Stars
I rented this DVD from my library about a week ago. I'd always wanted to try yoga and although I'm in pretty good shape, I'm not that flexible so yoga intimidated me. Within 2 days of working with the DVD I knew that I had to buy my own copy off of Amazon! (BTW I just paid for regular shipping, but the DVD arrived in a day and a half. Nice!)
I loved the sheer variety of routines on this DVD. They are split up into two levels, "as you get started" and "as you progress". Only a week into it, I'm still finding the "as you get started" routines very challenging but not impossible. I think that there's enough on this DVD to keep me interested and learning new things for at least a year or two! If you're like me and you've never tried yoga, let me tell you that during the excercise you will work hard (like any good excercise) but after completing one of Barbara Benagh's yoga routines I find that my breathing is deep and slow, and feel like I've just had a full-body massage (QUITE unlike any excercise I've ever done!!!)
Her instructions are so clear that it's easy to follow along. She's challenging but very encouraging, making sure that you don't feel bad if you can't get into a particular pose, and offering you other easier options if you need them. She somehow offers lots of information while using very few words, this helps to keep her instrucions understandable to the novice.
I also want to add that I wanted to learn yoga without all of the "emptying your mind" new-agey type of stuff, and this DVD definately lets me accomplish that. I believe in freedom of religion and I don't look down on yogis who practice the way that they wish, and likewise as a Christian I felt that my beliefs were respected in this DVD. I just want to excercise, not change religions, and Yoga for Beginners allows me to do that.
Movie Review: Comprehensive Beginners DVD With Alot Of Variety
Summary: 5 Stars
When the DVD beings you come to a menu with a few selections. Take the time to look at the interview with the instructor and the general information on using the DVD that are on this menu. There are also selections to two sections - getting started and as you progress.
The Getting Started section is just what it sounds like and introduces you to many movements and poses. There are five sections to work with (which are all around 20 - 30 minutes or so) The sections in Getting Started are Backbends (includes the locust pose, seated backbends and the cobra pose), Standing Poses (inlcuding the tree pose, triangle pose, and warrior pose), Strength And Balance (including plank and boat pose), Sun Salutations and Seated Hip Opener (various poses performed on the floor)
None of the poses repeat between any section in the Getting Started section, in other words nothing in the Seated Hip Openers is in the Standing Poses for instance. There is over 2 dozen poses which covers many of the commom yoga poses in the almost two hours of material in the Getting Started section.
The As You Progress section uses the items learned in the Getting Started to create longer routines with specific goals, such as quieting. Since yoga will use the same pose in different workouts, some items may be used in more than one routine but most are used 1 or 2 times other than a relaxation at the end of each workout, which is how many yoga workouts end from what I have learned. As You Progress also adds some additional poses that were not in the getting started section, so there is even more varitey. The routines: Basics, Energizing, Strength, Rejuvenate and Quieting.
A great DVD to learn yoga with an extensive amount of yoga poses and routines to learn and work with.