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Product Description Now, You Can Experience The Many Amazing Benefits Of Yoga!With these highly effective techniques you will discover how you can..- Reduce Stress, Anxiety and Depression.Deadlines, financial worries, relationship issues, traffic, the holidays, getting your kids to school on time: it s all stress. Stress is stored in our musculature and other body tissues (i.e. irritable bowel) and disrupts our hormonal balance. By reducing muscle tension you can reduce your stress levels, stimulate hormone production and feel like a new person.- Lose Weight Permanently.Yoga can help you lose weight in more ways than just by burning calories. It helps your hormonal balance, reduces food and alcohol cravings, and builds muscle.- Increase Your Mobility in Shoulders, Hips and Other Joints.Your range of motion tends to decrease, as you get older. It s: use it or lose it. Yoga takes all your joints through their full range of motion, increasing your mobility over time. You ll be amazed at how much easier everyday activities like walking or running can become when you increase the range of motion in your joints.- Increase Your Energy level.You have to expend energy to gain more energy. But some types of exercise can get you feeling more energized immediately and this is one of them!- Strengthen , Lengthen and Tone Your Muscles.Yoga creates long, b and lean muscles, from head to toe. Enjoy powerful muscles without adding bulk!- And Much More!In this course, instructor Marleen Stam-Gibbs reveals many essential Yoga techniques for you to open up the tightest areas of your body; the hips, glutes, hamstrings and lower back. In freeing those areas, you will discover a healthy approach to improving your life.Marleen clearly demonstrates proper breathing and stretching techniques and offers you step-by-step complete breakdowns through many Yoga poses including:Down Dog Step Through Dancer Forward Fold Seated Forward Fold Hand To Big Toe Supine Pigeon Warrior 1 Pyramid Warrior 2 Triangle Extended AngleThis course is a perfect companion for inflexible people.DVD Features:- Complete Pose Breakdowns- 8 completely customized sessions ranging from 25-90 minutes, offering you the best mind-body experience to suit your daily lifestyle.Bonus Session:Yoga Session for the Office: Marleen demonstrates techniques "desk jockeys" can use anytime during your workday!You no longer have to search, wonder or feel lost, trying to figure out what Yoga techniques work and what does not work -- It's all here, just waiting for you! Review "You Couldn't have given me a better gift than your Yoga instruction. I thank you for helping me stay healthier" - --Kimerlee (Breast Cancer Survivor)Beginners Yoga is a nicely thought out yoga DVD with 8 sessions, ranging from 32 minutes to 85 minutes. Unfortunately the DVD menu and the insert do not say anything about what is in the different sessions, so you have to go through them yourself to find out. There is also a short 7 minute session of stretches you can do in the office, which just involve leaning against a wall or using a chair. Finally there is a demonstration section where Marleen shows how to do the different poses, each of a minute or two each. The yoga here is simple and truly for beginners. Marleen does her demonstrations with the help of other people who are not like the strong and flexible models that one sometimes finds in yoga DVDs: these are normal people who enjoy doing yoga, and they are not necessarily strong or flexible, so they are not intimidating, and one does not feel that they are impossible ideals. The production qualities are pretty basic. This is one of the first yoga DVDs I have seen where the microphone used by the instructor was not wireless, but was wired, but she does not get tangled in the wire and the sound quality is good. The demonstrations are all shot in one corner of a wood floor room. There are a couple of camera angles used, and the switching between them is regular. Marleen's voice is soothing -- she has a slight accent which has its own charm. The routines are quite gentle and pleasing, and are not aerobic at all. Even the longest session does not go very far in stretching, although it will be challenging for some; she always has one of the others show a more moderate version of a stretch, so it will not be too daunting. So it you are looking for a simple introductory yoga DVD with some variation in options, without background music or new age pretentions, then this is worth trying out. --Christian Perring, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dowling College, New York. About the Actor Marleen Stam-Gibbs is a registered Yoga teacher offering yoga sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area. She offers custom tailored one-on-one and group courses. Marleen also offers Prenatal Yoga as well as Yoga for children. See more
If you've never done yoga--and even if you have--get this DVD!!! She does an excellent intro with the breakdown of all the poses, along with modifications for those of us who aren't so flexible yet or have back problems (me on both counts!), and showing how some who have done yoga do some of the poses incorrectly and why. The quality of the DVD is not great, the one I received warbles at the beginning of the intro sections, but there were no issues with the first session that I did today, so hopefully at least all of the sessions are in good working order. I have tried yoga a little bit in the past, but past videos were discouraging and seemed to only be for people already familiar with yoga and/or very flexible. Due to my back pain and being a desk jockey, I wanted to give it another try. Naturally this dvd appealed to me, especially with the mini session for the office. It is very simple, no flash, but isn't that what it should be--simple and relaxing? This fits the bill! She has a very pleasant and relaxing voice, and she is very good at describing everything to where you will find yourself not having to constantly look at the screen to know what's going on--which is amazing when you are trying to hold a pose, lol! The first session was only 32 minutes, and at the end I felt like "that's it?!". But I already feel the benefits in my lower back! The nagging pain I deal with on a daily basis has already greatly reduced--apparently what I've felt for some time was true, I just really need some good stretching but the stretches we are typically taught for back issues just weren't helping me anymore. I look forward to doing this daily. First exercise I've ever done that has made me feel so good, and the time was up before I knew it! I look forward to doing the longer sessions! Thank you, Marleen! I wish I would have found this dvd years ago!
