Yoga offers benefits to people of all ages. Yoga helps teens build healthy habits for life and helps improve balance, flexibility and strength. In addition, yoga can help to reduce stress, boost self confidence and increase self esteem. This is beneficial during the teen years and throughout your entire life. Yoga By Teens is a basic hatha yoga class on DVD that is perfect for home practice. This practice is good for any teen who wants to try yoga for the first time or a teen with some yoga experience. There are other yoga DVDs for teens. What makes this … Continue reading →

Vinyasa flow yoga is a form of yoga that uses asanas in flowing sequences and offers significant benefits. The DVD Shiva Rea: Daily Energy Vinyasa Flow Yoga offers a convenient at home vinyasa flow practice. Shiva Rea is one of the leading yoga experts in the United States and has created many resources for home practice, including a line of DVDs. This challenging practice offers something for everyone. If you love yoga, but don’t have the time for 30, 45 or 60 minute practices, this DVD may be the perfect choice for you. Shiva Rea includes seven practices on the … Continue reading →

Women have specific needs and concerns throughout every stage of life that can be addressed and nourished through the practice of yoga. The mind, body, spirit connection, emotional benefits and physical benefits of yoga are useful at every stage of life and specifically address women’s wellness. Yoga for Yourself is a practice that is designed to provide a yoga practice that is tailored to the specific needs of women. The poses, breathing exercises and gentle flowing sequences offer abundant benefits for all women. The practice is led by renowned yoga instructor Ann Richmond to be centering, calming and exhilarating. The … Continue reading →

Yoga offers a wide range of physical and emotional benefits. Several studies have shown that yoga can help regulate moods and offers a natural way of dealing with anxiety and depression. Although a general yoga practice offers benefits, there are specific asanas and sequences that offer benefits for anxiety, depression and stress relief. Yoga for Depression and Anxiety is a DVD that is designed for individuals coping with anxiety and depression. The DVD has an introduction by Ira Israel, noted yoga instructor. The introduction contains words of wisdom about anxiety and depression and advice and techniques to reduce stress in … Continue reading →

Yoga offers many benefits to children, such as improving concentration and focus, promoting calm and reducing stress. If you have wanted to teach your child the benefit of yoga, but haven’t found the right resources, Create a Yoga Practice for Kids by Yael Calhoun and Matthew Calhoun may help. There are a growing number of programs for children and parents are sharing their practice with their kids for the physical and emotional benefits. This book provides an easy way to introduce children to yoga. It’s a good choice for parents, teachers and yoga teachers working with children. One thing that … Continue reading →

Although yoga is seen by some people as an exercise for women, nothing could be further from the truth. Some of the best known and loved yoga gurus throughout history have been men. Today, everyone from athletes to the average man enjoys the many benefits of yoga. The book Real Men Do Yoga: 21 Star Athletes Reveal Their Secrets for Strength, Flexibility and Peak Performance is a great introduction to the practice of yoga for any man interested in giving it a try. If you are a man who has been wondering about the benefits of yoga or a woman … Continue reading →

Whether you are new to the practice of yoga or have been practicing a while and adding new poses, having a reference book of the asanas is valuable for everyone. A good yoga asana book will have information about the poses and photographs for reference. One book to try is Asanas: 608 Yoga Poses by Dharma Mittra. As the title suggests, the book contains 608 yoga poses making it an excellent resource for beginner, intermediate and advanced level students. There are poses for all of the most popular types of yoga, so it is useful for more than one style. … Continue reading →

The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice by TKV Desikac is not your typical book of yoga asanas with pictures and descriptions. This book is a guide to developing a personal practice. This book is helpful for developing a deeper understanding of yoga and approach the practice openly, rather than performing the poses mechanically with one eye on the clock, thinking about what you need to do next. In this book, you will learn to enjoy the asanas without rushing and by doing this; you will reap bigger benefits from the practice. The book has the tools and information … Continue reading →

If you have Fit TV from your cable provider, you have access to a great yoga practice at no cost. Namaste Yoga on Fit TV is a gentle flowing hatha yoga practice in 30 minute segments. There are so many things to like about this program. It’s one of best I’ve ever come across and I have tried a lot of DVDs, audio practices and other televised yoga practices. Namaste yoga offers the perfect blend of relaxing scenery, artistic visual design, relaxing music, connection of movement and breath and a gentle flowing rhythm that is easy to follow. I’ll admit … Continue reading →

Yoga offers benefits at all stages of life from childhood to the senior years. Yoga offers specific benefits to women during and after pregnancy. Many yoga DVDs are created for pregnancy or for after the baby is born. One that combines the best of both is Element Prenatal and Post Natal Yoga. This DVD has two practices, one for pregnant women and a second practice for new mothers. Women can use this DVD throughout pregnancy and in the weeks and months after the baby is born. The prenatal practice is designed to tone the body, improve flexibility and increase strength. … Continue reading →