Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Parade Video
• VHS Release Date: November 16, 1999
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305107793
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #270,939 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Los Angeles yoga guru Gurmukh Khalsa guides 15 new moms and their babies through 30 minutes of yoga stretches and poses, a joyful two-minute baby dance, a brief bout of baby yoga, and about 10 minutes of rest and visualization in this post-baby installment of "The Method" series of exercise tapes. The white-turbaned instructor starts with a brief talk about childbirth, yogic breathing, and a recommendation to "reclaim" one's navel. Viewers join her at the live taping of a class in a large room with Greek columns, roses, and a chamber quintet. Since it's not edited, babies cry and fuss. This adds a realistic element of chaos to the tape, which the more traditional voice-over instruction ignores. Khalsa specializes in the Kundalini method, and in this tape she concentrates on slow stretches with a lot of abdominal work. The infants are included in some, as when the women roll back and forth with babies on their bellies or do "mama pushups" over the little ones. But once they are old enough to crawl, these exercises get difficult--as one baby repeatedly demonstrates. The infants are also incorporated in a cobra/triangle series, a set of Kegels, and are even used as weights. Then it's their turn with some baby stretches of their own. Finally, the moms are invited to lie down with their offspring for the rest and relaxation finale--although, predictably, some babies do neither. The 50-minute tape provides plenty of good ideas for moms who want to do yoga with their babies--or even on their own. --Kimberly Heinrichs

From the back cover

Baby & Mom Post Natal Yoga features a group of twenty-two new moms and their babies, two to five months old. Regardless of whether you have or have not done Yoga before, this video is truly an inspirational mental and physical experience for baby and mom. The 40 minute-long class starts with simple Yoga warms ups and stretches for the moms, then continues with sitting and standing exercises where the babies help the moms strengthen and tone the muscles of the stomach, chest and shoulders, thighs and buttocks, and the lower back. The program, which features a live chamber quintet, ends with a joyful mom and baby dance followed by a final visualization and meditation cooling off period.

Customer Reviews

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52 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great workout - Goofy Instructor, November 28, 1999

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This review is from: The Method - Baby & Mom Post-Natal Yoga [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I liked this tape a great deal. Its a really good workout - you are definitly sweating by the end of it. But the instructor does quite a bit of new agey stuff [which I fast forwarded through] and she gets a little annoying. As mentioned previously, my baby did not like the workout part [being used as a weight, etc]. However, she *really loved* the 'baby yoga' and massage towards the end and we enjoyed that together frequently. I think it was really great for her. She also liked watching the other babies on the tape, which I thought was cute, too. I ended up doing this workout mostly while my baby was napping though. I think this is a good way to get in shape after delivery, but you have to kind of ignore the instructor at times and fast forward through parts that aren't working for you.

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of money and time, February 14, 1999

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This review is from: The Method - Baby & Mom Post-Natal Yoga [VHS] (VHS Tape)

To begin with the instructor did not even have a baby with her. You are suppose to do yoga with your baby next to you for the most part. You are to perform the postitions around your baby. When I went from the triangle to the cobra, my baby grabbed my hair. When I lifted her overhead, she drooled on me. When I rocked on my back with her between my legs, I almost bonked her. At the end you are suppose to walk around the room holding your baby. I can do that while I do housework. This video is goofy.

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good thing it didn't cost any more than it did..., July 10, 2002

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This review is from: The Method - Baby & Mom Post-Natal Yoga [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Let me begin by saying that yoga is not new to me, and prior to this video I typically found yoga instructors soothing to listen to and I love the serenity of holding poses and breathing deeply. If that is what you're looking for, don't buy this video. Khalsa talks CONSTANTLY through the workout. (And she doesn't have one of those mellow, relaxing voices either.) The exercises were not familiar yoga poses, but were the more traditional ab crunches, etc... They were not the slow stretching and holding poses I am more familiar with. I bought this video because it claims to include babies in the workout, but the babies are included only minimally and in ways that are neither comfortable or relaxing for them. They are supposed to spend most of the workout time resting quietly on the mat next to you. As already mentioned, Khalsa does not have a baby with her as she leads this workout. My guess is because she's concerned about being interrupted by a fussy baby. I can't blame her, because that's what happened to me, but it probably means that the workout does not include babies in a way that makes them happy or relaxed. My suggestion? Get a yoga video for yourself that you can do while baby is asleep. You'll find it much more helpful and relaxing, and you won't have to worry about a fussy baby that you're supposed to be including every now and then in the exercises.