Customer Reviews

Basic Yoga [VHS]

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I like this video very much because the first half shows individual yoga moves. The second half of the video is a 30 minute class which ends with a 10-minute meditation. Easy to follow. I highly recommend

This video would be excellent for beginning exercisers needing to enhance their flexibility but as a person who exercises daily, I did not find it terribly challenging. Most of the exercises are identical to those one would do in an aerobic cool-down and only one really stressed balance. If you exercise on a regular basis, this video is not for you: keep shopping!

This video is great! It shows you step-by-step just what to do. This is a very doable routine for almost anyone. I'm 41, and I can't do all of the exercises perfectly yet (don't have that flexibility that I did when I was 20), but I find that even after just a week that I'm much more flexible. Also, I especially like the fact that a meditation session is included. The yoga exercises help to loosen and relax you and make the meditation session more productive. I had tried meditation alone and had been unsuccessful at it.

I do the class session of the video every morning. I may grow out of it at some point - but I just don't think so. It's just right.

I get a MUCH better class at the local YMCA. I bought this and a Buns of Steel Yoga tape at the same time. The other tape was cheaper, had better atmosphere (nice gardens versus a delapitaded dance studio), had better exercises, and an instructor without a distracting lisp! At points, the instructor is muffled from bad sound quality. The American Yoga Association should be ashamed of themselves for such a bad product.

Okay, folks. I see that most of you have dissed this tape. I don't think it warrants such a bad rap.

Buying this tape was my first try at yoga. I appreciated the friendly, non-intimidating, not-so-spiritual way the instruction and the class is conducted. And I like seeing the regular-looking people practice along with the instructor. My favorite part is the relaxation and meditation at the end. The instructor gives a very thorough relaxation sequence that I find necessary to truly reach that relaxed state.

Yes, I will give it to you that the sound quality is a bit poor and the boring dance studio setting and camera work are just that - boring; HOWEVER, it works to do what it aspires to and that is to teach basic asanas and give the beginner a short, non-intimidating class with which to work.

I recently bought a number of yoga videos. This is the one I found to be the least useful.

I found the verbal descriptions of the postures to be inadequate and the camera work to be substandard. Nor did I care for the flow of the 30 minute class.

The videos produced by Living Arts/Yoga Journal are much better in my opinion.

As an aside, the book "Yoga for Beginners" by Mark Ansari and Liz Lark is absolutely first rate!

Yes, I agree that is very simple; but for people like me who get a gym membership and never go for more than a few weeks, its a good start. I have bought all kind of excercise tapes, you name it, Raquel Welch (actually pretty good but Difficult - Recommend it), Fonda (to much jumping, Denise Austin (to much for me - at least at this level), so you see my type is not easily persuaded to move.
So for people like me actual couch potatoes that want to get a gentle intro so as to slowly feel better this and any beginners pilates videos is Highly recommended.
True the bit about having to see the instructions at the begining, But... a big but as I am not in the mood every day to move it is a good remminder so as no to put myself into a wrong and/or hurtful position.

Of the 65 minutes of this tape, you only get a 30 minute class which includes 10 minutes of meditation. The sound quality of the class is awful, I've seen much better quality HOME videos!

I was disappointed in this video. The actual video was boring to watch and a bit simple! ALso, the first 30 minutes are a step-by-step and then you get to the actual "workout." This is a problem because you only need to see the intro once and so when you want to repeat the workout you have to be careful that you do not rewind too far. Too much work-not a great tape.

I was disappointed in this video. The actual video was boring to watch and a bit simple! ALso, the first 30 minutes are a step-by-step and then you get to the actual "workout." This is a problem because you only need to see the intro once and so when you want to repeat the workout you have to be careful that you do not rewind too far. Too much work-not a great tape.