Prenatal Yoga With Shiva Rea
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Prenatal Yoga With Shiva Rea
The best thing about this prenatal yoga program is that there is a model for each trimester. Instructor Shiva Rea demonstrates each of the stretches and exercises for the first trimester, and two pregnant women show modifications for the second and third trimesters (they’re even dressed in different colors for easy reference). This removes the self-doubt home-exercisers often have about the safety of certain moves–especially in that cumbersome final stage of pregnancy. Using gentle voice-over instruction, Rea and her assistants take viewers through a half hour of meditational stretches using blocks and chairs for support. She follows that up with 16 minutes of floor work: lunge pose, bridge pose, child’s pose, plank pose–all with the necessary adjustments. She winds things up with a four-minute guided relaxation on her back–the traditional position–with the second-trimester woman on her side and the third on her side with one leg up on a chair. By including the different adaptations, Rea has made a program with the flexibility to carry an expectant mom through her entire pregnancy–and beyond, if she wishes. –Kimberly Heinrichs
Customer Review: Terrible for Third Trimester
Although this DVD contains modifications of the poses for each trimester, the modification for the third trimester basically involved sitting in a chair. I found many of the poses did not feel appropriate for a prenatal program, and did not feel any benefit from the program. I think that the program would be too easy in your first and second trimesters in addition to being almost useless in the third. It’s also inconvenient to have to have a chair available for the program. The guided meditation at the end is too short. I strongly recommend the Divine Mother prenatal DVD instead of this one.
Customer Review: Relaxing Workout
I started this in my first trimester- it came in handy to go through the warm up on nights that I wasn’t sleeping well and couldn’t find a comfortable position. I woke up one morning and did it at 5 am, then went back to sleep for 3 hours! Good upper and lower body stretches- relaxing and rejuvenating all at once. Really helps to alleviate lower back pain, which I’ve had since day one of my pregnancy. Enjoy!
