Product Review

This dvd has 7 completely different practices to help you progressively improve your balance; strengthen your hips, legs, ankles, feet and core; and master yoga standing balance poses. With many helpful tips to make balancing easier, you will learn to do these poses safely and with confidence in the privacy of your home. The practices are:

• Non-balancing floor and seated exercises to awaken, strengthen and learn about the primary muscles of balance (19 min)

• Easy Standing Balance Exercises, practiced with or without chair support (14 min)

• Classic Yoga Standing poses, practiced with an emphasis on strengthening the feet and ankles (9 min.)

• Fun ways to improve balance in everyday life and freeform balancing (3 min)

• Yoga Balances, level one - Chair and/or Wall supported versions of common yoga balances: Tree, Eagle, King Dancer, Warrior III, Half Moon, Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose (17 min)

• Yoga Balances, level two - Classic versions of level one poses, plus revolved and other variations (27 min)

• Yoga Balances, level three - A challenging flow sequence of standing balance poses (12 min)

Also included is an introduction to increase your understanding of this critical sense. With clear explanations and demonstrations, this dvd is perfect for beginning and intermediate yoga students, yoga teachers and athletic trainers, and active people of all abilities.

Improving balance will affect everything you do physically. Good balance will help you move safely with confidence and grace. Balance training will enhance athletic performance, improve focus and concentration, create strong supple feet and ankles (the foundation for your whole body!), and help prevent falls and injuries. Stronger balance will allow you to advance your yoga practice, feel more confident in class, and master yoga balances that once seemed impossible.