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Beginners Workout [VHS]

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I work at a library and have had the opportunity to try many different yoga tapes. This was by far the best that I've found! Wai Lana is an excellent teacher and this video got me to look forward to doing yoga every day. It is a gentle 30-minute workout followed by a 5-minute meditation. It has been a great way for me to relieve stress! I always feel more relaxed and invigorated after I do it. We have even started a lunch time yoga group at work and use this tape instead of a live teacher. I would highly recommend this tape for beginners like myself!!

Being a very macho type of guy, I've always thought yoga was for sissies. That is until one night my girlfriend coaxed me into trying Wai Lana's Easy Beginners Workout Video. She told me it would help me with my workout regiment (I workout with heavy weights at the gym 5 nights a week). After trying it just once, my attitude changed completely.
I've briefly watched yoga classes at my gym and even watched a bit of yoga instruction on TV, which did nothing to attract me to yoga. But Wai Lana, WOW! Her soothing voice, the way she makes it so easy and enjoyable, the scenery, the vivid colors, and the beautiful locations...
This video can calm the wildest of beasts; I'm living proof. I now look forward to it every day and find that I'm working muscles that were otherwise neglected with my usual weight training. I now have great stamina and feel a sense of calm I've never had before.
I'm a believer!

Ron
Denver, Colorado

I'm new to yoga, but a friend introduced me to this tape, and now I'm hooked! I thought yoga was just about trying to twist your body into a pretzel and then zone out. I had no idea what a workout it is. I can't figure out how it energizes AND relaxes me so much at the same time - but I love it!

Wai Lana is a terrific teacher. She's warm, always encouraging, never pushy - and never made me feel like I was just a dumb beginner. Even though a couple of the postures were a real stretch, I just did what I could and that was great. And on the last posture, the Yoga Nidra relaxation, I just melted into the floor.

The tape is beautiful to look at, with amazing tropical scenery, and the music was a pleasant surprise - not your dreaded New Age stuff, but full-bodied, upbeat and mellow.

With yoga, it hardly looks like you're doing anything - but at the end, you know you've done some aerobics. I call it the "stealth workout" - and "stealth" rhymes with "health". It's certainly doing wonders for mine! This tape is terrific.

Greg
Boise, Idaho

I am a busy working mom, and finding time for a workout is always a challenge. Wai Lana's Beginner's Workout makes it easy, because I can pop in the tape and do only as many of the asanas as I have time for. I have tried different aerobics and workout tapes, and the routines are very awkward to start and stop in the middle - plus your body doesn't get the full benefit of the workout. With the Beginner's Workout, all the asanas work out and stretch the whole body, so you know you're getting a full workout even if you can only do a few of the asanas. Also, my kids love to do the workouts with me, so I don't have to worry about what they're getting into while I'm exercising!

I have many workout videos and books and tapes and... You get the point. After recieving Wai Lana's Yoga set as a gift several years ago with her Toning video, I was totally hooked. She has all but cured my asthma... Anyhoo, after recieving this video I popped it in and was astounded. Not having much time before I had to step out, I did the first two of the excersises and was amazed even more. She opened up my rib cage, my chest, shoulders, lungs, traps, etc. all with only two simple standing moves. I will always be grateful to her. I recommend her videos to every one, especially those with asthma -- I know first hand. Try her excersises. Her voice in gentle, the locations are beautiful and will always put you in the move to workout the moment you press play. Her instructions are wonderful. And the music is always peaceful. Please, listen to her advice and utilize it. You will have a much safer and productive workout. I will definately use this video as my cool down session after completing my more strenuous workout sets.. Enjoy.

I bought this set as a gift, but ended up keeping it and using it myself. For an entire winter, I got up and did one of the 3 tapes every morning. It definitely produced good physical and mental results, but I got burned out on Wai Lana. She is kind of a kooky character, and I found myself reluctant to do the tapes and listen to her odd, almost bizarrely-sedate sounding voice. Keep in mind that you may want to rotate this set with another teacher's.