Yoga For Inflexible People is for anyone who considers themselves inflexible. The yoga postures developed 5,000 years ago were not created for people who are already flexible, but rather to help inflexible people become more flexible. A wide range of poses are taught and modified to help both beginning and intermediate students experience the benefits of yoga. The modifications includes suggestions for the use of props, which can be either actual yoga props or items you have around the home, such as a belt or books, to assist you when you feel you need additional assistance. Of course if you do not need props, you do not have to use any.
Customized workouts allow you to progress at your own pace and the DVD contains dozens of routines which designed to carefully guide you along your journey into yoga.
When Yoga For Inflexible People was released, the Yoga Journal declared it “One of the most intelligent and useful presentations served up in a long time” and praised it as a DVD “…for all beginning students whether they are inflexible or flexible.”
Yoga For Inflexible People continued to be commended as the Yoga Journal rated the DVD as one the Top Yoga DVDs ever produced. (December 2006)
Yoga isn’t just for people who are already supple–it’s a way to become more flexible. Yoga for Inflexible People presents modifications and props to make traditional poses accessible to people who could not otherwise perform them comfortably or correctly. You get more than 35 workouts and about four hours of instruction and practice in all. Choose a general workout, focus on an area of the body (shoulders, legs, hips, and back), or select a peaceful or energizing workout. Within each category, you have a choice of several different 15- to 75-minute series (some seated), much more variety than most videos offer. Some of the poses are beginning level; others are not. Leader Judi Rice demonstrates well, instructing by voice-over, though her expressionless face lacks warmth and personality. You’ll need a yoga mat, blocks (or large books), a long strap or belt, a chair, and blankets. –Joan Price
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May 22, 2008
#1
I have taken several yoga courses. I love watching my age-mates grunt and groan and try unsuccessfully to get into various yoga postures. It’s always a day brightener when Mrs. Surgically Unwrinked inadvertantly breaks wind trying to become a “herniated lobster.” That said, any yoga is usually better than sitting on the sofa with a bowl of pork rinds watchin’ Dr.Oz, on Oprah, discuss coronary heart disease.
Yoga For Inflexible People is not for people who really are inflexible. It’s for beginners who have the potential to become more flexible. There’s a big, big difference. Truthfully, before you begin to use the DVD, if you’ve had any problems with flexibility, I’d check with an MD before beginning the program.
May 22, 2008
#2
Product ws in excellent shape. Be careful if you have never done yoga, this was for my husband, he hurt himsel and relized yoga is not for him, he will stick to other workouts that have been helpful. The most important thing is to stay active.
May 22, 2008
#3
After reading reviews on this DVD, I decided to go ahead and buy it. I wish now that I would not have bought it. In my opinion, this is not a very good yoga DVD. I favor Baron Baptiste and his style, so maybe this is why I do not like this DVD, but I did not like the positions and the instructions.
May 22, 2008
#4
Abit too slow. Has too many props.
The presenter is abit dull, didn’t give me a lot of motivation to carry on with it…
I had better… (like crunch`s fat burning yoga…).
May 22, 2008
#5
I’m an absolute yoga beginner, and the beginner section of this DVD is perfect for someone like me, if they’re bedridden maybe. I’m overweight and out of shape, but I found the poses in the beginning module to be pretty simple. I kept feeling like I was lying there doing nothing. It’s all basic stretching, stretching, stretching. I had high hopes for this since it’s got such good ratings, but I can’t recommend it.
The production quality is low, with a voiceover. The lighting isn’t the best, and the model who demonstrates the poses looks bored. I mean no offense to her appearance, but more in how she’s presenting herself. She looks like she just rolled out of bed. She doesn’t look rejuvenated or relaxed, and I guess I expect a smile now and then from my instructors. I was disappointed in this, even though there’s plenty of poses (something like 35). Save your money and look for something else.