Yoga for Seniors with Jane Adams (2nd version): Enhance Stability, Energy & Flexibility with Mild Senior Yoga, now with 3 full practices.

Love this easy to follow yoga video
I am 81 with a variety of ailments that make it hard for me to exercise. This easy to follow gentle yoga program is wonderful. The instructor, Jane Adams, has a very relaxing manner. The movements are well described and are slow enough to follow. I like that there are different exercise levels offered. Have done 1 & 2. Look forward to level 3. I’ve been using it for about 3 weeks & already feel a positive difference in my strength & balance. I occasionally alternate this DVD with “Stronger Seniors Workout Program” with Anne Pringle Burnell, also avail on Amazon. Gives me a little variety. Like both.

A brilliant road to better health and fitness
If you’re looking for a way to improve your fitness or that of a parent or grandparent, I can’t think of a better place to start. I’ve no experience with the shorter, completely seated workout on this DVD. Last year, I purchased the first edition which has one work out very similar to the middle one here on the second edition. The third workout is more difficult–we plan to work our way through this eventually, but for my 85 year old mother it was a little too much so we went back to the more modest middle workout.Key differences between the first and second edition’s middle workout: The sound is set louder on the first edition. If you’re using headphones that aren’t always loud enough, the first edition could be better. The second edition shows multiple camera angles, so you can better see what you’re meant to do. Ms Adams has modified this workout a little bit. In the end it’s four minutes longer. You might think 36-40 minutes is a long time and worry it’ll become tedious, like I did. After doing it for a few months, my mother still looks forward to it every day and it still surprises us both how quickly it goes by.My mother’s posture, back pain, balance and endurance have improved. Between them, my parents have had years of professional physical therapy (both in-home and at rehab facility) and I’ve never seen a significant improvement like this. Unfortunately, we had a bit of a set-back last month where her knee was hurt (considerable pain for a few weeks but nothing fractured, broken or torn). Now we’re quickly getting back to where she’d been–I credit this workout (which she still wanted to do despite the pain) for the speedy recovery, perhaps preventing a worse injury.The middle workout is the perfect gentle, yet serious nudge toward better health and fitness my mom needed. You or yours won’t do every exercise with effortless perfection. It might take weeks to work through the whole workout, as it did for us. And if this becomes too little of a challenge, the third workout (which we’ve only tried once, not quite making it halfway) looks fantastic too.I thought so highly of the first edition that buying the second edition for Seniors, then another Jane Adams DVD for me was a no-brainer. Nothing is for everyone, but I’ll bet this comes closer to disproving that than anything else. The value is far greater than anything I’ve bought in this millennium.

Yoga
For adults 80 years old. Not hard to do.

Gotta’ Start Somewhere…
I’m a relatively fit 70 yr old & hubby’s a relatively fit 60 yr old. We just completed our first Level I workout & despite my thinking it might be too easy, we both felt some muscles that may feel a bit sore in the next few days. We’ll stick with Level I until we’re sure we’re not gonna’ overdue, then on to Level II, etc. Eventually, we hope to progress to a more a more standard yoga workout, but if not, Level III should give us the strength & mobility we need.

I am 67 and purchased this dvd after a hip replacement. It helped regain my flexibility and strength and was very easy to follow. Would definitely recommend. Very good initiation to yoga. June Adam’s voice is calming and a good variety of exercises.

Bought this DVD for myself to improve flexibility and balance. Previewed the DVD on my laptop and recognized immediately that it would definite!g help me. However my wife is the one who uses it daily to help her flexibility, balance and the stretching helped to eliminate some severe rib cage muscle cramp. Perfect, just right. We are both 71 years old.