Product Details

• Actors: Sara Holliday
• Directors: Sara Holliday
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: indoors
• DVD Release Date: January 13, 2006
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FDO09O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,271 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

This 45 minute yoga workout, Sara Holliday's Prenatal Yoga - First Trimester, is specifically designed for women in their first 12 weeks of pregnancy. The instructor, Sara Holliday, is also in her first trimester and works through the postures and poses along with the viewer. She is also an expert in prenatal and postnatal exercise designed to help women safely stay in shape during and after their pregnancies. According to Holliday, "The many benefits yoga can provide an expecting mother . . . include increased strength and flexibility, increased muscle tone, breathing exercises, stress relief, less pain and in many cases, an easier labor." Make no mistake, this is a real workout. It's slow, gentle, and relaxing, but you'll break a sweat. I did this workout with my friend who is in her first trimester (I'm not pregnant). It was wonderfully relaxing for both of us, and my friend intends to do the workout often through her 12th week. Sara provides a great deal of instruction so even someone new to yoga can do this workout. She includes modification instructions throughout the workout as well as a separate chapter with modifications. The workout runs about 45 minutes but despite the slow pace, the time flies. You'll be surprised when it's over. My friend felt her pregnancy nerves had floated away, and she was left feeling centered and calm. A fit body and mind is invaluable during pregnancy. Sara Holliday helps newly expectant moms achieve this goal with her Prenatal Yoga - First Trimester workout. You'll soon be able to continue Sara's program throughout your pregnancy with the soon-to-be released workouts for the second and third trimesters. We can't wait! --Storknet.com

Product Description

Be fit, look and feel great from the beginning of your journey with Sara Holliday's Prenatal Yoga: First Trimester. In this revolutionary prenatal yoga class fitness expert Sara Holliday, uses her extensive training in teaching yoga to guide you with safe and effective postures and poses that may result in a decrease in pain caused by pregnancy, an increase in muscle tone and strength, an improvement in flexibility, and a feeling of well being.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Low quality cinemetography, but EXCELLENT series of poses, June 22, 2007

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Bethany Haid "bld424" (Columbia, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sara Holliday's Prenatal Yoga: First Trimester DVD (DVD)

I am a person who loves special features, extravagent sets, and perfect costumes. At first, I was put off by the apparent low-budget set. After I did the practice, I began to appreciate the instructor's effectivenss and choice of rotine. Its one of the only prenatal yoga videos that have strengthening and toning as a focus, rather than relaxing or stretching. Most of the poses are standing poses, similar to a real yoga class. Many other prenatal yoga dvds are designed to be "generic"... I mean that its okay for all stages of pregnancy. This one is unique because it doesn't modify to be too easy.

If you have done yoga in a studio, you will probably like this dvd. If you do yoga to relax rather than tone, it probably is not what you want.

A word about the instructor - she has a confident voice, not whinny or breathy. She also looks like an athlete - a swimmer or something. She is very strong looking. Also- she did not indicate that she was actually pregnant at the time of filming- only that she did these type of things during her pregnancy.

I will do this the next time I am pregnant.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Insufficient explanation - not a good yoga video, June 6, 2007

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UCR "ucr" (chevy chase, md United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sara Holliday's Prenatal Yoga: First Trimester DVD (DVD)

I bought all three series of prenatal yoga and I regret it. This video does not offer walk throughs on how to do many of the poses. She just quickly changes from one pose to the next, without explaining how to do it, give you time to inhale or exhale properly, show you where and how to position hands and feet for support, or how to twist core body, etc. Both her verbal explanations and visuals leave me frustrated, wondering if I should position the hands one way or another for a particular pose. What is worse, the camera does not follow many of her important movements, focusing sometimes only on her face or on a detail of her shirt, instead of showing how she is positioning her arms, hand, toes, etc. even when she puts them behind her body -- these are important details in yoga, because incorrect poses can lead to injuries.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great for beginners or advanced, November 20, 2006

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Alyssa Barnes (Poughkeepsie, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sara Holliday's Prenatal Yoga: First Trimester DVD (DVD)

I have never done Yoga before, nor am i very flexible, so this video was the perfect challenge for me. Knowing that the workout I am doing is good for my pregnancy and my baby is very calming to me. i have been so afraid to do the wrong exercises since being pregnant. While this DVD is relaxing, it was challenging enough to give me that feeling like i did a tough workout. I also had a friend of mine do it with me who has done yoga before and is not pregnant and she loved the workout as well. She said it was very relaxing to her and she felt like her muscles were challenged too. So i am confident that all levels will enjoy this work-out.