Crunch Yoga Mama - Prenatal Yoga

Sue Elkind
Year Released: 2004

Categories: Pregnancy/Postpartum


I am writing this review a couple of years late, as my daughter is approaching her 2nd birthday, but oh well. :-) I will say right up front that in general I am not a yoga person. Prior to getting this workout I had not found a single yoga workout I could enjoy. The spiritual aspects of many yoga workouts do not appeal to me. I decided late in my second trimester that I needed to at least try to find some yoga I could tolerate during my pregnancy to help maintain my flexibility and to help maintain a sense of balance with my ever-changing center of gravity. Crunch Yoga Mama fit the bill perfectly. The moms in this workout are at various stages of their pregnancy, and seem to take obvious joy in their changing bodies and their little workout buddies. The instructor was calming without the ultra-serene auras of other yoga instructors I had seen, including some other pregnancy yoga instructors. That always drove me nuts. Especially when I'm pregnant, I'm NEVER that serene. :-) The yoga poses were a challenge as my 3rd trimester progressed, but never felt overwhelming or unattainable. I enjoyed this workout so much, in fact, that I have since obtained all of Crunch's yoga workouts. They continue to be the only yoga that work for me. They aren't what I think of as "woo woo," at all. If I had to sum it up in 1 sentence, this and the other Crunch yoga workouts are excellent non-yoga-person yoga workouts.

Instructor Comments:
I really enjoyed this instructor. She was soothing without being annoying. She had a good sense of humor and was easy to work out with.

ErinF

01/20/2005