hellppppppppppp new at yoga

[burgespj]

Hi can someone tell me a good video to buy.There are no classes here. I am not flexible at all, a total beginner.

[Styls32]

Hey there!

I've been teaching yoga for over four years now, and I get this question a ton! The best videos for beginners would be the following:

Anything from Gaiam

Sean Corne: Vinyasa Flow Yoga - This one is slow enough but includes many important key poses.

There is a t.v show called Namaste, which is filmed in Vancouver B.C. It's half hour program, and if you can forget you are watching a bunch of half naked beautiful bodied women you will see the flows are beautiful. She starts slow and has more repetition. Her style has a flavour of Viniyoga. I believe if you go to her website...katepotteryoga.com you can order the whole first and now second season. It's great for people who don't have a whole hour or two.

If you are a beginner I would say stay away from Shiva Rea....don't get me wrong I love the women and she is fantastic...but knowledge of yoga and the poses are a must....once you get the hang of it, maybe even through a series of classes you can work your way to her.

Hope this helps....if I think of more I'll post

[Judy]

Not a dvd, but a book: 'The Easy Yoga Workbook, A Complete Yoga Class in a Book'. It's véry good, esp. for beginners, but it's still interesting enough if you have more experience, with lots of color photos, good info about the postures, meditation, breathing etc, plus a cd with the whole class on it:

http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Yoga-Workbook-Complete-Class/dp/1844833348

[sport]

Shortcut to: http://www.yogatoday.com/
This site claims to have a different class every day so you can do it at home.

[burgespj]

Wow, those are great tips!! That yogatoday is awesome. Thanks.

[tanawana]

I would have to recommend most any of the Rodney Yee videos.
He seems to have a great way of explaining things. A good sign of an instructor is one who you don't have to constantly look at the TV to understand the move. He's good at this to me and has a nice soothing way of talking I like. :D

[tinystrawberry]

I just bought "the complete book of yoga" at Barnes and nobles last night. It looks good!

[Blazin'Jane]

Burgespj--the flexibility will come. Be patient, don't strain, breathe, breathe, breathe.
I started years ago with kathy Smith's New Yoga basics and still like it. Her husband, Rod _______? with GAim, has a good video Yogad for maturity that I also like alot. I agree, too, about Rodney Yee, and also like Susan Deeson's Yoga for women, tho' itls a little tougher. Therre's a wonderful video from Kripalu with Stphen cope, which is a little longer (90 min.), but I always feel really wonderful clear through after I do that one. My least favorite is Kundalini Yoga. Enjoy! Yoga is wonderful and goes right along with RAW in promoting health in body, mind, and spirit. Good luck!

[Nini]

I like the Yoga For Dummies dvd. I checked it out of the library, along with some others. It was the best, by far, for a beginner like me.

[lily]

I really love Richard Hittleman's 28 day yoga course. At the end of last year I sent out the intention that I would find a new yoga guru. Within a few days I heard about this little (1970s) paperback, bought it from Amazon for next to nothing, and started on Day 1. I kept to it, and now, 9 months or so later, I do the three-day sequence of routines daily. My flexibility has increased amazingly and I am so happy with this regime, because each daily sequence takes only 15 minutes, and is easy to slot into my day. I'm still improving.

This is not a 'glamorous' option, but it has worked so well for me. I'll always be grateful to have found it.

Good luck with whatever system you're 'guided' to.

lily

[joyfulGIRL]

Eoin Finn makes me happy...you can visit his website for free podcasts.

[aililiu]

ahh! i love eoin finn!

"you should feel youre getting ice cream licked off your body"

hahaha. i grin every time the dvd gets to that part.

oh, and,
"this should feel straight off the goodometre!"

classic!

(from yoga for happiness, awesome dvd)

[tanawana]

I really love Richard Hittleman's 28 day yoga course. At the end of last year I sent out the intention that I would find a new yoga guru. Within a few days I heard about this little (1970s) paperback, bought it from Amazon for next to nothing, and started on Day 1. I kept to it, and now, 9 months or so later, I do the three-day sequence of routines daily. My flexibility has increased amazingly and I am so happy with this regime, because each daily sequence takes only 15 minutes, and is easy to slot into my day. I'm still improving.
lily

memories, that was the first yoga book I ever bought. :o