Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Gaiam
• DVD Release Date: September 1, 2003
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00018WNHE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,864 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

With chronic back pain reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S., the need for effective non-drug relief and healing is leading more and more Americans to yoga for lasting results. Yoga can help you to create and maintain a strong and flexible back at any age. Back Care Yoga is an informative and inspiring yoga instruction program to release back tension, realign the spine and strengthen your core torso muscles to support lasting relief and prevent back pain and strain. Internationally acclaimed yoga instructor Rodney Yee leads three practice sessions to explore and understand your back, build strength and improve flexibility, and restore a healthy back. And this special DVD edition also includes insight on yogaŒs effectiveness for back health from a medical perspective, plus a bonus sequence of simple everyday techniques to counteract the effects of the prolonged chair-seated activities so prevalent in our society.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who needs a chiropractor, when you have this video?, April 8, 2007

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Nascar Runner (MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Backcare Yoga For Beginners (DVD)

I starting running a few years ago, which resulted in lower-back muscle tightness. After several visits to the chiropractor, I realized I was just doing guided stretching--so I bought this video. Two days of this video always fixes my back when it starts to ache. My regular yoga is too strenous when my back is tight. This video uses a chair to modify many of the regular yoga poses. I highly recommend it. It's only 20 minutes, so it's easy to fit in.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for yoga-phobics with bad backs, October 1, 2006

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M. MacIver "Crazy_boy" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought this for my partner who hates yoga and has a bad back and who has practiced to this DVD on a regular basis and says it really helps the back pain. HOWEVER, if you are at all flexible, this is not the DVD for you. This is strictly for beginning yogis who need some great stretches for back strengthening/flexibility.

89 of 109 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Back Care Yoga A Waste of Money, January 30, 2005

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Lee E. Heller "Poor Richard" (Summerland CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Backcare Yoga For Beginners (DVD)

I was really disappointed by this DVD. My acupuncturist had recommended that I try a Rodney Yee video, but I don't think he knows that this is mostly fluff--there's lots of advertising and talking, but only 20 minutes of actual yoga. So as a yoga session, it's just too short to be of much use except for absolute beginners--but it's clearly not aimed at them, as Rodney uses poses that true beginners would not already know, and does not instruct in how to do them.

More important, the yoga exercises are too short. The program is 90% stretching, but the stretches are not held long enough to be effective. The poses are also too brief. And there are not enough of them--real back work involves strengthening back and abdominal core, but there are only a few poses in this program that do that.

Based on this DVD, I will not buy anything from this source: it feels like a moneymaker scam to me.