The All-Day Yoga Workout - A.M., Stress Relief, and P.M. Yoga for Beginners Rating: Release Date: 16 November, 1999 Retail Price: $19.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Rodney Yee Patricia Walden Suzanne Deason

The All-Day Yoga Workout - A.M., Stress Relief, and P.M. Yoga for Beginners Reviews

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A nice selection of three relaxing yoga practices
This DVD contains three very good yoga practices which are perfect for virtually all levels of yoga practitioners, particularly advanced beginners to intermediates. Although the practices are each labelled as being 20 minutes long, the actual times vary a bit: AM Yoga has a 4-minute breathing exercise followed by a 12-minute yoga program, PM Yoga is approximately 24 minutes, and Yoga for Stress Relief is about 16 minutes. All of these programs are very doable for those new to yoga, but they do assume some prior familiarity with the poses (total yoga newbies will find Yoga Journal's Yoga Practice for Beginners to be an excellent place to start).

AM Yoga provides a practice so gentle that I've frequently performed it upon first waking up and while still in my pajamas. The simple breathing exercise helps your mind to focus, and then the basic twists and other poses which follow help your body to awaken. The practice is led by Rodney Yee, an excellent instructor who provides flawless cuing and who has an extremely calm, soothing voice--ideal for anyone who is not a morning person! PM Yoga is a very nice practice for winding down, relaxing, and stretching. It also begins with a short focus on breathing, encouraging you to turn your attention inward "where it's quiet." The practice moves from a seated to a kneeling position and also includes traditional standing poses such as a warrior and lunges. This is a great end-of-day workout or a quick practice to fit in anytime you need to relax. Patricia Walden is also a very good instructor, but her cuing is not quite as accurate as Rodney's; however, I enjoyed her practice the most. My one disappointment with this DVD was the Stress Relief program by Suzanne Deason. Although I thought that her voice was soothing and that she cued well, she moves so quickly from pose to pose that there's little opportunity to enjoy each posture. Furthermore, the use of props seems to hinder and further complicate this practice--if the workout moved at a slower pace, the props would be a nice addition, allowing those with less flexibility to attain the poses, but because the transitions are so fast, I spent most of my time worrying about where the props were supposed to be positioned, leaving little time to relax in the poses.

Overall, this video would be a good addition to your collection if you are looking for short, relaxing practices accessible to a wide range of levels.

The All-Day Yoga Workout-A.M., Stress Relief, and P.M. Yoga
Bought this DVD used but am taking it back. I'm fairly new to yoga--took 2 5-week sessions with an excellent instructor. I was looking for something to do at home when I can't make it to class. The poses were too fast in the stress relief segment and there was way too much use of the brick (she must have said brick a hundred times). The P.M. session was just too silly. Rodney Yee is good but the rest of the set is not.

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