Gentle Yoga for Beginners

Suzanne Deason
Year Released: 2001

Categories: Yoga


This is formerly Living Art's "Gentle Yoga for Beginners".

This gentle and calming yoga practice is about 35 minutes in length. It's filmed on a beautiful beach in Maui. Suzanne practices right next to the ocean and the water lapping to shore is crystal blue/green. Palm trees stud the island alongside the beach.

Suzanne practices alone and she demonstrates with a yoga block and strap for modification on several of the poses. Suzanne wears a pale pink unitard and she instructs in voice-over cueing. Her voice and mannerism are calm and pleasant.

There's a brief intro by Suzanne at the beginning of the DVD and then the practice begins in supine position. Suzanne moves into raised-knee-to-chest stretch, supine cross-legged stretch, supine leg stretch, bridge pose, supine side twist, cat stretches, lunge pose, hero pose, seated side stretch, downward-facing dog pose, gate pose, mountain pose, standing wide-angle forward bend, triangle pose, side angle pose, modified boat pose, seated forward bend, seated head-to-knee pose, cobbler's pose, seated half spinal twist, seated wide forward bend, supine knee-to-opposite-side twist and corpse pose for shavasana.

In terms of intensity/difficulty, this is a wonderfully gentle yoga practice for beginners, and for more advanced yogi/inis who want a relaxing practice for stressful days.

Leslie (blue_hydrangea)

11/28/2005