Product Details

• Actors: John Schlorholtz
• Format: NTSC, DVD
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000G1GI6I
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,973 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

"...great for people young and old, stiff and flexible, and those with medical conditions, including arthritis." Keli Ballinger, Harvard Center for Wellness. Two full hours of material. Makes yoga accessible to almost everyone, including 16 chair-only sessions for people unable to stand. Dozens of gentle and gently challenging routines, ranging from 5 to 85 minutes, are varied and easy to fit into busy schedules. Work on joint freedom, strength, stretch, loosening up, balance, breathing, and relaxation and meditation.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

95 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review Chair Yoga DVD by John Schlorholtz, August 25, 2006

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Joyce M. Lawrence (St. Louis, Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chair and Standing Routines: Ageless Yoga, Vol. 1 - Great for Seniors and for People Unable to Sit on the Ground (DVD)

John's chair yoga dvd is excellent. I am a yoga teacher and one of my classes is teaching chair yoga to seniors. What I learned from the dvd is helpful in teaching my seniors. My students enjoy the routines so much that they clap after class The routines are easy to follow with precise directions. In addition to demonstrating himself, he has two other students on chairs offering alternative positions for those who are less mobile in certain areas. I feel John is actually here with me during the demonstrations. Also, the dvd is divided into different types of practice, e.g., joint mobility, gentle, looseners. This makes it easy to select an appropriate routine for that particular day. I believe these routines will help students of any age to gain flexibility, strength, increased circulation, a sense of confidence and accomplishment, and through that to experience more joy in their life. Also, the relaxation and breathing techniques are very well done. I highly recommend this dvd for students of all ages and is especially appropriate for seniors. This is an awesome learning tool for yoga teachers.

78 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great For Any Body, October 5, 2006

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S. Atman (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chair and Standing Routines: Ageless Yoga, Vol. 1 - Great for Seniors and for People Unable to Sit on the Ground (DVD)

I used to teach Iyengar Yoga. Now, at age fifty-seven, with a genetic heart problem and Meniere's Syndrome, it's hard to do much of anything. I found this DVD here at Amazon, and absolutely love it. I still get the benefits of Yoga, without putting my body at risk. My husband, who is in good shape but under a lot of stress, is now using the DVD, too, because it doesn't add stress with a lot of confusing exercise combinations or trips to the gym.

Just a great DVD. Thanks, John!

73 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, Full Body Healing in a Chair, April 26, 2007

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Adrienne Deforrest "Adrienne" (Boulder, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chair and Standing Routines: Ageless Yoga, Vol. 1 - Great for Seniors and for People Unable to Sit on the Ground (DVD)

Wonderful physical and emotional healing for anyone who is confined to a chair. Six weeks ago I found that the pain from my osteoarthritis of the hip and back had become too much for me to bear. I knew that I needed authentic healing beyond pain-killers or surgery. I am only 56 and yet my condition had degenerated to the point that I could hardly walk. I purchased John's 2-DVD set of all of chair, floor and standing routines, and I began with the chair program. Six weeks later I am doing the gentle floor and standing routines quite well, feeling stronger, more flexible and happier by the day. But even though I can do the standing routines now, I still think with fondness of the chair routines I did first. John gets a lot of breath and movement out of you in a chair! and I gained my first strength and sense of hope back through these routines. I have thought of my own deceased Mother so much as I became strong in the chair. How I wish that I had known about this DVD for her sake when she was alive. I highly recommend this DVD for anyone who feels weak, confined or hopeless because of their age or disability - even those confined to wheelchairs. Perhaps especially those confined to a chair, for you will see that through the deep breathing and small movement exercises right there within your chair, you will come to feel alive and empowered perhaps beyond what you have known for a long time.