Product Details

• Actors: Susan Winter Ward
• Directors: Jeffrey Hewitt
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Yoga for the Young at Heart, LLC
• DVD Release Date: August 1, 2003
• Run Time: 58 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000DYGAI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,298 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Yoga for the Young at Heart will introduce you to the ease, beauty, and benefits of yoga and improve your physical, emotional, and spiritual well being.
--Bernie Siegel, M.D.

...all the little things you need to do to keep yourself healthy and vital at any stage of your life. Take the time to treat yourself to the gems in Yoga for the Young at Heart by Susan Winter Ward.
--Rodney Yee, Author, 'Yoga: The Poetry of the Body'

...Neophyte yoga pactitioners will appreciate the clear instructions and gentle pacing...

Product Description

Are you intimidated by all those hard-bodied pretzel poses, but have been wondering how you can take advantage of the life enhancing benefits of yoga?

Join Susan's yoga class of silvering Baby Boomers for a gentle, relaxed, and effective yoga experience.

This beautifully produced video, the second in the Yoga for the Young at Heart Basic Series, will encourage you to new levels of strength and flexibility. Although intended as the second in a continuing series of three video classes, Accessible Yoga is ideally suited to beginners of any age, with or without previous experience in yoga.

Susan guides this class with clarity of instruction and a sequencing of poses that will surprise you with what you can do. Start experiencing the many benefits of yoga. Regardless of your age and physical condition, you can begin right now. See how easy it can be to build strength, increase flexibility and support a healthier, more balanced and peaceful life.

Join with this Baby Boomer class of regular people as they inspire you to stretch and breathe your way to vitality and health. If they can do it, you can too!

Accessible Yoga for Every Body is the second of three videos in Susan s Basic Series. We recommend that beginners start with Yoga for the Young at Heart (Basic Series 1). As you progress with your practice, comfortably and at your own pace, all three Basic Series videos can be used interchangeably for a variety of classes in your ongoing yoga practice. Let Accessible Yoga for Every Body guide you into a more flexible body.

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Customer Reviews

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60 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Gentle Routine, August 4, 2004

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CPTScott - See all my reviews

This review is from: Accessible Yoga for Every Body: Basic Series Two (DVD)

I just finished this program a few minutes ago and wanted to share my thoughts on it.

As a person with a daily yoga practice for the last seven years, a participant in regular classes, and with a home practice that incorporates programs of this sort(over 70 VHS/DVDs at last count) I would say that overall I really liked this.

While my favorite type of yoga practice is vinyasa flow based, I do like to alternate with Gentle programs.

While I was doing this particular program I was thinking it might be a program that would even be gentle enough for my mom (who is in her 60's), but as it continued I would have to say that there were a few spots where I felt it might be a little unsafe for her (and she has some experience with Yoga from classes and uses the Yoga Zone Basics 5 tape set).

Even though Ms. Ward explains things very well and stresses to work at your own level and that "Yoga should never hurt", there are no modifications shown. For someone without previous experience of Yoga this could be a problem.

There were a few times where I felt that had I not had the experience I have doing yoga that I could have caused some strain , particularly in my knees. I always listen to my body and don't try to always do exactly what the instructor is doing if I feel it's not sound for me at that given moment, but that has come with years of experience.

Still, as an overall routine I did like this a lot and I can see that I'll use it quite frequently on my "gentle days".

I really like her sequencing of the poses, the pacing, and the fact that there is a long relaxation at the end.

It's about an hour long, but it really goes by quite quickly. I think Susan Winter Ward is an excellent instructor who has a great feel for teaching and a really soothing voice (which I find really helps in terms of the "feel" of the practice).

So, in spite of my concerns I would highly recommend this practice but I think it is probably good to have at least a little bit of experience with yoga to be on the safe side.

Namaste

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for those with knee problems or most beginners of senior age, February 24, 2011

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Mary Moyer (Sherwood, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Accessible Yoga for Every Body: Basic Series Two (DVD)

I have been faithfully doing Basic Series 1 five to seven days a week for two months and like it very much. However, I thought I could use a little challenge so bought Basic Series 2 which in theory is just one step up from Basic Series 1. Perhaps Series 2 should have been named Basic series 2 1/2 as the poses were quite a bit more complicated and many really challenge the knee (a big problem area for me). Unlike Series 1, I did not find it that easy to follow the directions and had to keep looking up out of my bend or whatever to see what the pose was supposed to look like. Series 2 is more of a workout than Series 1 and though the running time is listed as 58 minutes, only about 50 of those are spent doing active poses. The last 8 minutes the students are lying on their mats in corpse pose and breathing deeply while Ms. Ward sits and looks solemnly at the camera.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Older People Friendly, March 11, 2009

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Brent H. Kiyan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Accessible Yoga for Every Body: Basic Series Two (DVD)

I'm new to yoga so this product is just my speed. It's a bit long (50 mins or so) but very gentle. You can work at your own fitness level.