The New Method: Baby & Mom - Prenatal Yoga

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Summary: OK Exercise, Made me Want to Giggle
Review: There's a passage where the instructor asks you to imagine you're experiencing the beauty of squatting to deliver a baby naturally in a foreign land, in the forest, surrounded by woodland creatures and many mothers and midwives. If this scenario appeals to you, this is your perfect video. If not, and you can make a go at the one-with-my-child-and-the-earth thing for the benefits of the exercise, it's still an ok yoga video (though a drawback is that there's no time spent making sure that postures are done properly to minimize injury.) Focuses on both strength and flexibility.

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Summary: Great relaxing way to workout during pregnancy!
Review: When walking became too painful due to ligament pains, someone recommended this video. I wasn't too sure until I tried it. It is very easy, but a GOOD workout! I haven't been too big on all the chanting, but the rest of it is GREAT! I would recommend this to any pregnant woman looking for a good easy workout! My 3-year old enjoys trying to follow along with me while I do the video, too!

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Summary: relaxing and motivating yoga video
Review: This is a wonderfully relaxing and motivating video. As someone who had not been doing yoga prior to my pregnancy, I was very pleased with the way that the instructor guides you through the breathing and visualization. This video is not filled with poses, but focuses more on flexibility, strength and movement. I love the live music playing in the background and appreciate very much seeing real women in various stages of pregnancy in the class. There is, however, a section of chanting in the beginning and end of the class which I don't care for. But, I have learned to simply fastforward through those parts. I would highly recommend this video!

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Summary: Choose another prenatal video
Review: The first time I watched this video, my thoughts were, "Give me a break!" That hasn't changed. It is a little too "new age" for my taste and the exercises were not to my liking. It is not a relaxing video. Instead it is repetitious with a lot of emphasis "exercise" rather than the traditional yoga poses which emphasize strength, balance, and flexibility. I recommend to potential buyers, "Yoga Journal's Prenatal Yoga with Shiva Rea." That video is far better than this one.

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Summary: Great cure for lower back pain!
Review: A friend of mine stumbled across this video and gave it to me to try. I have never enjoyed the esoteric nature of some yoga tapes I have tried so wasn't sure how I would feel about this one. However, I have now been doing the tape religously three to four times a week for about two months and am totally addicted! Even though I am five months pregnant and have already gained 25 pounds I feel fabulous. From early on in my pregnancy I was beginning to have lower back pain. Since doing this video, my back pain has all but disappeared. I attribute it to the fabulous stretching and strengthening exercises I have been able to learn from this video. I am getting more and more limber each day and feel completely in touch with my baby girl each time I do the routine. I tend to wake up very early and am so excited to spend the first hour of my day all to my self with this video. The video leaves me feeling refreshed and totally relaxed. I will definitely be using the Mom/Baby sequel to this video.

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Summary: Feel like a Goddess
Review: I felt like I was embraced by ancient mothers, a beautiful goddess with the most important task I would ever accomplish in my life. The method is not your classic yoga class but I felt whole, connected to my body's rhythms and my baby while doing this class. As a doctor of chiropractic, I do recommend this tape to my pregnant patients. I believe this helped me have a better pregnancy and a better birth.

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Summary: mother in tucson
Review: I have a 3 1/2 year old and since having him I have had two miscarriages. I started this pregnancy overwheight and felt very cautious about everythig I did. Now at 4months I bought this tape and I feel so greatfull I found it. I felt safe in doing it and since I have been so inactive (but now told it is safe and important for me to get active again) it was great to streach and it did get my heart rate up. She also gives you great focus and relaxation mothods. The instuctor is very supportive and encouraging. She tells pregnant women what they need to hear and what I believe they don't hear enough of. This tape may be a step out of the normal for some women...but then being pregnant is a unique time in our lives no matter how many times we do it! From here on anyone I know who is pregnant is getting a copy of this tape!

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Summary: Excellent pregnancy workout
Review: I am SO happy I had this tape during my pregnancy! It helped me to relax and practice deep breathing, while getting a rejuvinating workout. The teacher on the tape was soothing and if I didn't do the workout for a few days, I missed it so much! It's the first tape I have ever stuck to, that I really wanted to do because I got so much out of it. I feel ready for labor, thanks to the video and the teacher's reassurrances. I already bought the subsequent Method Video for post-natal to workout with my baby (due in 12 days!).

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Summary: I loved it once I got over the weirdness
Review: I was put off at first by the new-age language, chanting, etc. by the female, turban-clad yogi. But the exercises were very fluid, flexible movements and I felt better in my heavy, pregnant body everytime I did the workout. So I kept doing it, and after a few times I tried the wacky dancing segment that another reviewer mentioned and it was ok, I didn't feel silly. (I mean, I was alone in my livingroom, not being taped ;-) Then I actually tried the chanting, and liked the practice of going completely internal with my focus, even if the content of what I was chanting didn't mean much to me. And I really liked the squating practice--it was challenging and felt like it was really helping to open my pelvis. I ended up liking the whole tape, once I got used to it, and used it often during the last half of my pregnancy. Give it a try. I recommend it!

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Summary: Excellent prenatal workout
Review: I very much enjoy this tape on many levels. The stretching is extensive, as is the warm-up. The work out was surprisingly challenging, I am in excellent shape and didn't think I'd really get my heartrate up during this video, but I definately did! The meditation and encouragement throughout the video was inspiring. It helped me to focus on the beauty of my pregnancy, and the life growing inside of me. This was a wonderful change from the negativity from coworkers and others on the subway (who all hate to be inconvenienced by a pregnant woman). I felt inspired and refreshed as well and envigorated after completing this workout, and I intend to use the video regularly! I highly recommend it! And it is a great price, you can't go wrong.