Backcare Yoga For Beginners
- BACK CARE YOGA
Description
With chronic back pain reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S., the need for effective non-drug relief and healing is leading more and more Americans to yoga for lasting results. Yoga can help you to create and maintain a strong and flexible back at any age. Back Care Yoga is an informative and inspiring yoga instruction program to release back tension, realign the spine and strengthen your core torso muscles to support lasting relief and prevent back pain and strain. Int… More >>
I starting running a few years ago, which resulted in lower-back muscle tightness. After several visits to the chiropractor, I realized I was just doing guided stretching–so I bought this video. Two days of this video always fixes my back when it starts to ache. My regular yoga is too strenous when my back is tight. This video uses a chair to modify many of the regular yoga poses. I highly recommend it. It’s only 20 minutes, so it’s easy to fit in.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this for my partner who hates yoga and has a bad back and who has practiced to this DVD on a regular basis and says it really helps the back pain. HOWEVER, if you are at all flexible, this is not the DVD for you. This is strictly for beginning yogis who need some great stretches for back strengthening/flexibility.
Rating: 4 / 5
I was really disappointed by this DVD. My acupuncturist had recommended that I try a Rodney Yee video, but I don’t think he knows that this is mostly fluff–there’s lots of advertising and talking, but only 20 minutes of actual yoga. So as a yoga session, it’s just too short to be of much use except for absolute beginners–but it’s clearly not aimed at them, as Rodney uses poses that true beginners would not already know, and does not instruct in how to do them.
More important, the yoga exercises are too short. The program is 90% stretching, but the stretches are not held long enough to be effective. The poses are also too brief. And there are not enough of them–real back work involves strengthening back and abdominal core, but there are only a few poses in this program that do that.
Based on this DVD, I will not buy anything from this source: it feels like a moneymaker scam to me.
Rating: 2 / 5
The VHS format of this video was given to me a while back by a friend who is an Oriental medicines doctor. I was extremely happy to get my hands on the DVD. For over 15 years I’ve trained in the martial arts and any time my back muscles start getting tight or a little sore from too much training, insufficient stretching or over exertion, I pull out this yoga video. Practicing the yoga stretches once a day for two to three days makes my back feel wonderful. Exaggerated yoga stretches held for an extended time aggravated my back soreness, these gentle stretches are just enough to facilitate healing. Currently I follow the regime four or more times a week. I highly recommend it as a gentle routine preventative or treatment for sore muscles.
Rating: 5 / 5
i have osteopennia, which is the beginning of osteoperorsis, and i hurt my back. this dvd backcare yoga for beginners is the best. my back sometimes fells tight and i do the vido and it feels so much better. i think any one who has back problems should use it. its easy and its only 30 min. long. so if you are short on time this is the one to use. thank you Rodney Yee
Rating: 5 / 5