Product Details

• Actors: Meir Schneider
• 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: Sounds True
• DVD Release Date: April 27, 2004
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000AGQ6C
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #44,928 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

"This is yoga because this is union with the eyes," explains Meir Schneider in the introduction to Yoga for Your Eyes. Born legally blind, Schneider underwent many operations as a child but was unable to see more than light and shadow; he had to do all of his schoolwork in Braille. Today he is able to drive a car without use of glasses or contacts, after improving his sight holistically. In this video, Schneider shares his techniques, using movements that originate in two main sources: the techniques of ophthalmologist William Bates and Tibetan yoga.

To begin, Schneider instructs you to remove your contacts or glasses (how he expects you to see the screen clearly enough to follow the exercises is not explained). Then he moves on to "palming," a vision-improving exercise. The instruction is thorough, including directions on how to breathe, and the movements are simple and relaxing. The second segment is "Testing Your Vision," in which you're told to make your own eye chart to graph your improvement. "Stimulating Your Peripheral Vision" is next, and it requires three pieces of black construction paper and tape to help you balance the use of both eyes together. "Outdoor Exercises" explains why older people have more vision difficulties and shows how to improve this problem. The final exercises--"Sunning," "Skying," and "Long Swing"--help you to adapt to bright lights.

Schneider is an earnest instructor, who obviously believes strongly in his methods. If you're looking for a natural way to improve your eyesight, Yoga for Your Eyes is the place to begin. Also included with the video is a 62-page study guide. --Jenny Brown

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

85 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real hope for your eyes, April 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Yoga for Your Eyes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

...This video shows Meir and his assistant Tony, demonstrating eye exercises that not only may help myopia, but various other eye ailments from glaucoma to macular degeneration. The techniques are not disease specific. Rather they are holistic in that the eye has to be seen as, and treated as a whole, and not in isolation as most eye doctors would. Besides exercises, the tape also highlights bad habits and wrong beliefs that lead to eyesight degeneration in one form or another, due largely to our misuse of our eyes. The exercises (indoors and outdoors) are not difficult, but require discipline and regularity. Meir is inspiring as he genuinely appears to want to convey his techniques (and the reasoning behind them), and he is also evidently his techniques' best example, having conquered his genetic disability and having endured what appears to be well intended but damaging surgery. I don't know of any other tape that actually spends a solid 74 minutes showing you how to counter the widespread belief that eyes only get worse when they start getting bad.

79 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth it's Weight in Gold!, June 8, 2004

By	Cynthia Sue Larson "www.realityshifters.com" (San Francisco bay area, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Meir Schneider's Yoga for Your Eyes: Nutural Vision Improvement Exercises (DVD)

The MEIR SCHNEIDER'S YOGA FOR YOUR EYES DVD contains all the essential exercises and materials needed to dramatically improve your vision. After doing just a few of the exercises on YOGA FOR YOUR EYES, I noticed I could focus much more easily on fine print, and my eyes felt relaxed and refreshed! Meir Schneider's instructions are clear and easy to follow, and his life experience of going from being born legally blind to being able to pass his driving exam is inspirational.

The DVD format is much better than reading books or tapes for demonstrating eye yoga, because it's the closest thing to attending a yoga for the eyes workshop. Each technique is clearly demonstrated, so it can be quickly learned and easily remembered. I'd read about the Bates methods of sunning, palming, shifting, and swinging... but never before been able to so quickly master these techniques. Explanations are provided for why these and a couple of other techniques make such a big difference in vision, and why modern lifestyles often tend to unnecessarily cause our vision to deteriorate over time. Schneider explains how we can improve our visual perception as we get older by learning to exercise and relax our eyes on a regular basis.

YOGA FOR YOUR EYES is worth its weight in gold; do yourself and your eyes a huge favor and watch this DVD as soon as possible!

-- Cynthia Sue Larson, author of "Aura Advantage: How the Colors in Your Aura Can Help You Attain What You Desire and Attract Success"

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gentle and effective, September 3, 2004

By	Real Reviewer (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoga for Your Eyes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a clear, well-produced video/book/eyechart set. I began using it five days ago and could see only a double image of the big E. Now after the exercises I can read the first three lines. I have worn bifocals for 40 years, and I'm now wearing my glasses only to drive. I don't see every detail clearly -- Mr. Schneider doesn't either. I do see what I need to see, and my vision has improved in a very short time. This is a gentle method which can do no harm. I wish I had explored it years ago.