Product Details

• Actors: Susan Winter Ward
• Directors: Jeffrey Hewitt
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Jeffrey Hewitt Studio
• DVD Release Date: February 22, 2003
• Run Time: 43 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000A0LAN6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,729 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Yoga for the Young at Heart will introduce you to the ease, beauty, and benefits of yoga and improve your physical, emotional, and spiritual well being. --Bernie Siegel, M.D.

...all the little things you need to do to keep yourself healthy and vital at any stage of your life. Take the time to treat yourself to the gems in Yoga for the Young at Heart by Susan Winter Ward. --Rodney Yee, Author, 'Yoga: The Poetry of the Body'

Product Description

Mobility issues? Recovering from injury or surgery?

Build strength and flexibility regardless of physical condition. For anyone with limited ambulatory ability, Sitting Fit Anytime offers excellent guidance to improve health and vitality with chair yoga, also known as seated yoga.

Yoga for the Young at Heart was honored to have had Sitting Fit Anytime featured by by Dr. Andrew Weil, in Self Healing Magazine, as an example of effective seated yoga.

Sitting Fit Anytime introduces you to breathing, stretching, and strengthening poses that gently bring your body to new levels of fitness, increasing circulation and energizing the body to assist in healing. Even those confined to bed can benefit from the deep and controlled breathing instruction offered in this program. Deep breathing strengthens the respiratory system, cleanses and oxygenates the body, and brings a sense of deep relaxation.

With your physician's approval, you will benefit from Susan's adaptation of yogic breathing and gentle seated poses. Seated yoga can build your strength and flexibility, and can provide you with the opportunity to progress to more challenging poses.

For example, you can increase your upper body range of motion with arm raises to strengthen the upper body, boost circulation, and stretch the intercostal, shoulder, arm and hand muscles. Upper body twists hydrate the spinal discs, increase flexibility, and can help to cleanse the body's organs.

Sitting Fit Anytime offers eight different segments ranging in time for from one to seven minutes each, including a closing meditation to end your practice with a sense of increased well-being.

Introduction by Susan Winter Ward - 1:13 minutes
Session 1 - Breathing - 3:10 minutes
Session 2 - Head, Neck and Shoulders - 6:13 minutes
Session 3 - Hands and Wrists - 7:18 minutes
Session 4 - Arms and Upper Back - 6:25 minutes
Session 5 - Hips and Lower Back - 7:32 minutes
Session 6 - Hamstrings and Forward Bends - 5:09 minutes
Session 7 - Abdominals - 3:43 minutes
Session 8 - Feet - 1:54 minutes
Session 9 - Meditation - 2:26 minutes

Note: If you have any physical impairments or limitations, please be sure to check with your physician before using this or any of Susan's programs.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Of The Alternatives, January 31, 2007

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S. Atman (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sitting Fit Anytime: Easy & Effective Chair Yoga (DVD)

I was a dancer and dance instructor for thirty years. I was a certified Iyengar Yoga instructor. I was an aerobics champion. Past tense. I'm now fifty-seven and have had two heart attacks, have SVTach, and am now nearly housebound with Meniere's Disease (including violent vertigo), and several herniated discs in my back. In short, I'm a wreck.

I own about two dozen tapes/DVDs for the old, infirm, and otherwise jacked-up. This DVD is the only one I use. It gives me a nice workout, but allows me the much-needed security of either sitting in or hanging onto a chair. Movements are explained well and demonstrated clearly. The Yoga instructor knows what she's doing and how to make exercising tolerable for those of us who can't participate in "real" Yoga.

All all-around great DVD.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stretch & Strengthen from the Comfort of Your Chair, January 15, 2009

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Martha McKinnon, Simple Nourished Living (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sitting Fit Anytime: Easy & Effective Chair Yoga (DVD)

It's possible to get the benefits of yoga without ever leaving your chair.

In Sitting Fit Anytime, Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher, Susan Winter Ward, guides you through simple effective seated exercises that are perfect if you have limited mobility or want to do a little yoga at your desk. All the yoga stretches, which are done from the comfort of your chair, will help relieve stress and tension and improve circulation while building strength and flexibility.

The DVD includes nine 3 to 5 minute segments that focus on:

*Breathing
*Head, Neck & Shoulders
*Hands & Wrists
*Arms & Upper Back
*Hips & Lower Back
*Hamstrings & Forward Bends
*Abdominals
*Feet
*Meditation

There is nothing particularly exciting or sexy about this DVD. The set is simple - just Susan seated in an over-sized ladder back chair demonstrating each pose while she provides detailed verbal instruction in a calm and soothing manner. The set backdrop suggests blue sky and clouds, while subtle flute/guitar music plays quietly in the background. This DVD is also available in a CD-Rom with screen saver format designed to prompt you to take intermittent yoga at your desk breaks.

This Chair yoga DVD is a great way to get introduced to the benefits of yoga from the comfort of your chair or desk. Don't be put off by the introduction where Susan is shown doing more advanced yoga poses with the chair as a prop. Nothing closely resembling these moves is included in the instructional portion of the DVD.

Highly recommended, especially for those with limited mobility who want to experience the benefits of yoga.

36 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Imagine the yoga positions - but on a chair., November 21, 2006

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Dodie's Doodles (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sitting Fit Anytime: Easy & Effective Chair Yoga (DVD)

If you are a yoga master, this is the tape for you. Why, you'll sit in the full lotus position not on a comfy mat but on a chair. Yes, that should be easier! Well, I've got to say that my friend and I, who work out together and have the same physical limitations, had a wonderous rolling-in-the-floor laugh over this one, so for that it has value. This is really geared for the average to above average in fitness who have a very good sense of balance. Too tough for us, but we'll save it just for the inspiration. She was able to do some amazing things.