Customer Reviews

Yoga for Healing

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I'm lucky to have taken classes with Sarah.She has moved away but I can still do her DVD which I do at leat 6 days a week.It is amazing and the best one out there. I have bought other YogaDVDs and they are too fast, don't give enough instruction... whereas Sarah does everything..especially the breathing.I have Fibromyalgia, so this is a daily must to keep the pain level down. It really helps.

I'm not your normal yoga type and I am easily intimidated by yoga practitioners who overstress the athletic and/or the spiritual. Sarah Bates is simply the best yoga teacher I have ever come across and she has made yoga a major part of my life. I'm 60 and in okay shape, never very athletic, but Yoga for Healing is easing my way into middle age ;). I'm stronger, more stable, and feel better. The video includes easy to follow 20 minute sessions. I've taken it all over the world. In fact, I've worn my copy out and need to get a new one!

Yoga for Healing is a "must have" if you suffer from FM &/or CFIDS. Even if you are bed bound and physicially deconditioned you should be able to do the breathing segment, which I personally found to be beneficial as it is calming, and relaxing. Be sure and watch the entire DVD. It's uplifting and gave me hope. Definately worth the money!

This DVD has a soothing ambiance and extraordinary yoga instructions. It makes Yoga accessible to everyone. I love the gradated classes. The interviews are very inspiring. I am a Yoga instructor and assumed this DVD would be too basic for me. However, the careful attention to detail was illuminating. Then I got the flu and was in bed for three days-yuk. I was going stir crazy and put on the DVD. The Bed/Mat Yoga Practice was the perfect yoga session for me. It was just enough to help stimulate my body's healing powers and I was back on my feet in no time! Great holiday gift idea.

I have fibromyalgia and that is the reason I purchased this DVD.
It is very informative and gives detailed instructions on each stance and how to do it. It has soothing background music and is very relaxing.
The poses are simple, but challenging.
I also appreciate the fact that the instructor also has fibromyalgia, so she understands what we are going through.
I highly recommend this DVD.

I am a very physically active 55-year old woman who is in recovery from a stroke that I had about 2 years ago. I am having a good recovery, focusing on walking, riding bikes, and Tai Chi and building at a snail's pace. I am making very slow, but steady progress. Everytime I reach a plateau, it is important to challenge myself with a new activity. This time, I chose gentle yoga and purchased a variety of DVDs. This is by far the best one! The instructor really gets it- even though I do not have fibromyalgia I was inspired by her story and the stories of the members of the class. When you have a stroke, the experts often tell you there is no recovery after the first year. That is not true! As long as you keep challenging yourself you can continue to make progress. As long as you can do a tiny bit, you can build on it, even if the progress is glacially slow. This is kind of the tone of this DVD. Everyone can start somewhere and then try to build on it. I am very hopeful that the gentle yoga will stimulate further the power of my body to heal itself!

PS I have been practicing the postures on this DVD for 1 year now, and I really feel better and can move more easily. I started to feel better the first week, and am now motivated to keep adding on to my practice. Kudos to Sarah!

I was so thankful to find this DVD. The instructor describes her personal and initially devastating experience with Fibromyalgia, and how she used yoga to help her recover and eventually teach. Seeing someone who had described herself as for a while unable to do anything but go to a yoga class and practice breathing under a blanket on the floor, who was now so strong, made me feel brave enough to try. As someone with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia, and also someone who has tried a lot of yoga DVDs, I was so happy to find something I could finally do no matter how bad my day is. The breathing exercises are really doable for nearly anyone who's bed-bound, and the meditation session was more helpful than anything I've found on 20 DVDs. I memorized and do it at night to fall asleep now.
It's great that the DVD also has stretching and strengthening sections so that students can progress in their health, without hurting themselves trying to do one of those programs that focuses more on fat-burning than safety. The instructor is very capable in teaching students with various illnesses and disabilities in a compassionate way. Great DVD! (I also recommend the "Sit and Be Fit" series, which can be found on PBS and includes a Fibro DVD that can be bought on Amazon, as well as "Kundalini Yoga to Detox and Destress with Maya Fiennes," which I was amazed that I both could do and found really inspirational and enjoyable.)

I used to have a very strong practice until I became ill and have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia. As anyone who suffers from fibro knows, the weight gain, pain, and lethargy are so difficult to deal with. I'm so happy I found this DVD!! I can practice again! There are several practices on the DVD, varying in length and what you are looking for out of your practice, either energy or relaxation. I'm so glad I ordered this, I hope to build my strength back up to be able to do the longer practices on the DVD. Highly recommend.

I had just been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and my doctor told me that I needed to start doing yoga. He said that it would relieve some of my pain along with more exercise. I came home and searched the Internet and came across this site about fibromyalgia with exercise DVDs. There were so many yoga DVDs. Just so happen Yoga for Healing was on the second page. I read the reviews and I decided this was the one for me. Reviews are so important!! The price of the DVD seemed a little steep from me so I waited about two weeks and finally I told my husband I was getting it. I wish I had gotten it when I first saw it!! This is an awesome DVD!!! Its inspirational and its empowering and its helped me with my pain and its EASY!!!! I would so recommend this to anyone who has fibromyalgia whether you are 20 or 80 years old. Yoga for Healing is GREAT!!!!!

I reviewed the DVD Yoga exercises first, and thought, hmmm, I think this is finally something I can do that is gentle, relaxing and invigorating. I am over 60, and have FM and OA, and I have been looking for something that would give me some strength without causing me more pain.
Then I listened to the testimony from Sarah and her students. I felt the tears well up in my eyes as I heard other human beings speak of the same type of pain experiences that I have, and they got BETTER using Sarah's techniques. This gave me a renewed sense of hope.
Sarah will inspire you, and you will gain a wealth of information on how to help yourself through yoga when you aquire this DVD. I am so thrilled to be embarking on this new journey towards less PAIN.