Wai Lana 152 Yoga Get-Started Kit

by Wai Lana

Product Features

• A combination kit of props and guidelines for starting yoga
• Helps with stress, flexibility, and muscle tone
• Includes sticky mat, yoga block, and yoga strap
• Offers a gentle introduction to yoga
• Also comes with 50-minute Wai Lana relaxation video

Product Description

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The Wai Lana Get-Started kit includes all the tools and props you need to do just that--launch a yoga practice in the comfort of your home. Intended to help you release stress, improve flexibility, and add muscle tone, the set is ideal for people who seek a gentle introduction to yoga or cannot attend a yoga studio. The kit includes a 24-by-68-inch purple sticky mat to add stability and comfort to your poses. A 4-inch-thick yoga block and a 6-foot yoga strap, also in purple, help with alignment and allow you to progress through several levels of intensity. To get you going safely and easily, the set also comes with a 50-minute yoga relaxation workout video led by Wai Lana, an internationally known yoga teacher. --Emily Bedard

Product Description

Wai Lana - Get Started Yoga Kit Wai Lana's Get Started Yoga Kit includes everything you'll need for a relaxing Yoga workout. It includes a mat, strap, block and relaxation video. This Yoga kit is ideal if you're a stressed out mom, dad or busy executive. Yoga teacher Wai Lana can be credited with introducing Yoga to the mainstream with her hit TV show seen worldwide. Her Yoga videos are set on beautiful, natural backdrops from the coasts of Hawaii or the eye-catching red rock deserts of Sedona; perfect for a relaxing Yoga workout.

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.9 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00008Z7LT
• Item model number: 152
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #642,670 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good basic set of yoga tools, April 26, 2008

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Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wai Lana 152 Yoga Get-Started Kit (Sports)

This is a good set of basic tools including a sturdy strap ending in D-rings and a metal tab, a high-density foam block the size of a big brick, a sticky yoga mat and a video (not DVD) of basic asanas for relaxation. There is an included poster showing how to use the blocks in the triangle pose and other asanas and listing what each pose is supposed to achieve (relaxation, stretching, breathing, strengthening.)

Wai Lana includes poses from yoga (asanas) and other techniques to achieve relaxation via gentle movement, though the beginner might find some of the poses challenging at first. But no one says you have to stretch the entire way.

The poses include:

Three-step leg lift on your back
Rock & roll on base of spine
Sitting eagle
Arm circles, Shoulder rolls, Shoulder lifts
Reaching backbend (careful if you have back issues)
Windmill
Tree pose
Easy Camel (requires twisting)
Alternate leg stretch
Biking pose (the old fashioned bicycle exercise)
Drawbridge
Side leg raise
Lizard pose
Locust lift
Sacrum massage

The music is new-age style and relaxing. Wai Lana is set in a changing background (ocean, shore, rocks, stream) and her outfits (she designs them like a combination of a Chinese acrobat's costume mixed with a jogging suit) change with the scenery. She wears Chinese opera-makeup so don't be alarmed; her lips are strawberry pink and she has a slash of bright pink blush under each cheekbone. It's fun to watch her leis shred up as she rolls into a ball on her back (petals all over.)

This is not a difficult workout but it is challenging if you are facing any back pain. So go easy. This would be good for anyone recovering from a sore back (with doctor's permission--for example the rolling on the back might not be good for severe osteoporosis of the spine.) You need to use the mat and I put down two for extra cushioning. A nice wakeup-body workout.