How To Choose The Best Yoga Videos

Thursday, 13 August 2009

Finding the best yoga videos is not as easy to walking down to your local video store and wandering over to the exercise aisle. Not all such videos on the market are ideal for effective home practice. In order to make sure you get the best yoga videos for your home
consider a few things you should really look for.

Easy To Understand

First of all
a quality yoga video will be easy for you to follow. You should be able to understand what is being done
how the positions are achieved
how long you should hold each one
and how often you should do it. It should also be easy to follow into each subsequent move. If you cannot understand the video
then it has failed on its most basic level.

Secondly
videos should provide not only easy to follow instructions
but also easy to understand demonstrations. You should be able to
by watching
understand the basics of achieving each pose and each transition. You should also understand
from watching
the breathing patterns and focus. If you can understand the verbal instructions
but the demonstrations are unclear then your video is no better than a book on yoga.

Next
there should be easy modifications offered in the best yoga videos. Yoga can be difficult
so beginners to it may frequently need modifications to their practice so that they can understand even that which they cannot complete. No matter what your ability level may be
you want your video to be able to apply to you. Once you buy a video
it should be of use to you at every stage as you progress further into yoga. Choose a video that will grow with you.

Teaching Qualilty

In a quality video
the yoga should be taught in a student centered manner. Though that seems like it should go without saying
you will see a number of yoga videos that are just a fancy way of showing off the instructor’s ability in yoga. Such videos do little if any good and in many cases may even be counterproductive for you. The idea of having the yoga video is to help your development
not to put you in awe of someone else’s level of flexibility or fitness.

Finally
high quality yoga videos should feature prominent and well qualified instructors. They should not only be practicing instructors
but should probably have achieved great success in their yoga education. You always want to learn from someone at as high a level as possible. By simply reading the back of the box
you will often get an overview of the teacher’s qualifications so that you can make an intelligent decision as to whether or not you want this person to help you practice yoga in your home.

Finding the best yoga videos really isn’t easy. However
when armed with the tools above
you can more accurately assess a video’s value. Look for something you understand visually and orally
that you can use at any level
and that features a successful teacher while staying student centered. When you find that you will have found the best of the best yoga videos for use at home and between private sessions or classes.

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