Amazon's Video On Demand Offers Plus Size Yoga

March 14, 2010 - PRLog -- Plus size people now have a viable yoga option with Beginners Dynamic Yoga For Stress Release and Weight Loss.  Suzanne Andrews, the host of Beginners Dynamic Yoga is no stranger to the plus size population.  Having lost over 60 pounds, she understands the needs of the larger population.  Andrews explains, " I remember when I was a size 18, I couldn't even see my toes, let alone touch them.  There was no way I was going to get down on a yoga mat or contort myself into a pretzel.  Besides, as a medical professional, I know it can be damaging to ones ligaments to get into those pretzel positons."

With Beginners Dynamic Yoga's emphasis on offering medical yoga poses done seated on a chair and standing, one need not get down on the floor to get the benefits of yoga. Medical or "therapeutic" yoga is a far cry from the intense technique taught in health clubs.
According to The Wall Street Journal, "popular yogas, such as Ashtanga, Bikram and Iynegar are physically demanding, usually causing participants to break a sweat. By contrast, therapeutic yoga focuses on breathing and meditation techniques that calm the mind, increase lung capacity and reduce stress. Health clubs "are much more into power, in-your-face kind of yoga," says Vijay Vad, sports medicine specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan.

Other benefits of  yoga include: stress release, weight loss, improved mental health and improved flexiblity. Now these benefits, once only available to the super fit and super flexible, are accessible to the plus size and unfit population who want to try yoga but don't for fear of hurting themselves.  Kim Kovenig, a medical center registered dietician,  offered Beginners Dynamic Yoga to her patients, many of whom were very overweight and reluctant to try yoga.  "I often work with people of size, it's refreshing to see a DVD that any body, any size, any age can do this program."

Beginners Dynamic Yoga for Stress Release and Weight Loss offers plus size people a medically reviewed and approved program they can call their own.  Now available for rental or purchase a fraction of the hard copy price at Amazon's video on demand at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001P7CACI/ref=pd_lpo_k2...

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Host of Functional Fitness on PBS TV and occupational therapy practitioner, Suzanne Andrews specializes in increasing your ability to live better, longer and healthier with research based movements to ensure participants recieve the most beneficial program.