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Mark Blanchard's Progressive Power Yoga for Pregnancy
List Price: $22.95
Amazon Price: $22.95
Average Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Editorial Review: Power Yoga For All Three Trimesters"If there are no limitations to your pregnancy, Mark's yoga will give you a great workout as well as provide you with substantial cardiovascular benefits." -Joie Russo OB/Gynaecologist Many pregnant women email me and ask if they can do my yoga DVDs while they are pregnant, and if so, for how long. The phenomenal advantages of practicing yoga during pregnancy are well-documented. Its many benefits help pregnant women maintain optimal health, minimize complications, create calmness, foster deep mental preparedness for birth, and provide quick post-natal recoveries.I created Progressive Power Yoga for Pregnancy with one woman in each trimester, including my wife Elizabeth in her second trimester and her OB Gynaecologist, Joie Russo, who was in her third trimester while taping this. We made this for the woman who wants to stay fit, active, and prevent enormous weight gain during pregnancy.The 60-minute routine I've created will not only help teach...
Customer Reviews:
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 Certainly not for later in pregnancy., 2008-06-28
I first did this DVD early in my pregnancy, when I was still doing my "regular" practice, and found it ok. It is not a very well organized or flowing workout and the instructor is not clear at all in directing the practice. I think it's great that he has a true beginner in the video, but he could have gone over the routine with her at least once before filming. The poor girl was relegated to a rear position (behind a bush!) for the workout and clearly didn't know what was going on.
It wasn't my favorite DVD, so I haven't done it in a while. I am now 30 weeks along, and just tried it again today. Wow. This felt nearly perilous at times. I have been religiously using Jennifer Wolfe's DVD's, with Rainbeau Mars' ZenMama thrown in for variety, and the Crunch Yoga Mama when I don't feel like going all-out. When I feel really lazy, or just want a relaxing stretch I do Prenatal Yoga, a Complete Home Practice. I now have learned the poses and modifications for pregnancy of which I was completely ignorant when I first did Mark Blanchard's practice. He doesn't even bother with cat/cow, squats, or (I suppose, understandably, since he's a man) kegels. He asks his students to perform poses that everything I've read have advised specifically to avoid. He is insensitive to the fact that many of his students, including 2 on the DVD, are operating with a basketball belly. He has you do a series of stretches lying flat on your back, which, at least for me, was very uncomfortable/near painful for the lower back. The whole time I was doing this practice today, I was thinking I'd throw it in free with some maternity clothes I plan to sell on Ebay.
0 of 2 found this review helpful:
 What a workout!, 2007-06-18
I got this DVD for my wife when she was pregnant and faithfully did the exercises with her every time...this DVD is quite a workout even if you're not pregnant!
6 of 7 found this review helpful:
 Not for Most, Perhaps not for Pregnancy at All, 2007-05-31
It is perhaps telling that the opening of this recording alternates shots of Blanchard doing extremely challenging yoga sutras with shots of his 3rd trimester wife doing slightly less fabulous poses -- What a healthy ego this guy seems to have! Blanchard's program is a 60 minute, challenging power yoga sequence only barely modified for pegnancy . In one rich moment, while he has the three women in flying pose, Blanchard cavalierly says something to the effect of "if you fall down, that's OK, your kid's going to take lots of falls in life." Could this be accurate (I don't think so)? Basically, this is a power yoga work-out with only the barest of sensitivity to the limitations of pregnancy. Blanchard asks his 3 students to go from plank to low plank to upward dog and then back to downward dog with a push-up, a move which even his extremely fit and experienced wife seems not quite able to do. She can do the push-ups, it's the upward dog that seems impossible (and which felt slightly dangerous to try). His coaching, which mostly involves his saying "nice!" and somewhat patronizingly calling the women "sweetie" or "honey" is minimal. A perfectly fine power yoga work out, but I'd say only for the very experienced and body-aware among us who will have to do their own modifications -- and this from a reviewer who has practiced pretty intense power yoga two - three times a week for 6 years.
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