How to Choose a Yoga Video Step 4 – Picking Your Video
My recent search on Amazon for yoga DVD’s turned up 1588 titles. That is up from 1559 videos a couple of weeks earlier.
With such a huge range of videos to choose from, now is where your earlier reflection will come in handy.
How to Choose A Yoga Video: Step 1, Step 2, Step 3
If you’re going to select from the vast offerings online, you’re going to want some descriptive words to help you narrow down the choices.
This is where your list of styles come into play… as do characteristics you identified earlier such as skill level, health concern, demographics, and other descriptive terms:
- Astanga, Viniyoga, Iyengar…
- beginner, advanced, back pain, headaches, stress, heart health…
- men, women, senior, mature, kids, prenatal…
- gentle, athletic, relaxing, restorative, energizing…
So if you search online – either with a general search engine like Google or within an online store like Amazon, use those descriptive words to help you zone in on possible videos
And of course, there are many other places to find videos.
For example, you can ask what a trusted yoga teacher would recommend. Some yoga studios and teachers sell videos, too.
Local shops will have a more limited selection of more mainstream videos
You could visit a local bookstore – general bookstores and new age bookstores often have yoga videos.
Health food stores, large general merchandise stores and some video shops carry yoga videos as well.
Some libraries carry yoga videos (your library and used bookstores are great places to go for VHS which is becoming more and more difficult to find).
Some things to consider when picking from your selections…
What are the qualifications of the teacher designing the video
Did a teacher even design the video?
Is the video oriented toward teaching you, the viewer, rather than showing off the skill of the person in the video?
Remember to choose a video appropriate for your level of ability and fitness – if you are learning strictly from books and videos, you’re pretty much “on your own” - you’re responsive for keeping yourself healthy so I encourage your to be a little conservative here, especially if you’re new to yoga. (And if at all possible, get yourself to a yoga class taught by a qualified instructor.)…
Remember, yoga is to serve and support you in your life. Going deeper into a practice doesn’t require physically more demanding yoga… it requires your mind. So be kind to your body.
And remember to enjoy yourself.
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