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| | Pregnancy Exercise Videos and DVDsStay fit through each stage of your pregnancy. Improve your overall energy level and stamina; relieve discomfort; improve posture, circulation and digestion. IMPORTANT NOTICE: All pregnant women should consult with their physician about their exercise program. Reviews on these pages (and the videos) should never be used as a substitute for the advice of trained medical personnel. Terms of Use. | Go Mom Fitness: Prenatal Fitness for the Entire Body DVDGo Mom Fitness, in conjunction with ob/gyn, physical therapists specializing in women's health, nurses, and most importantly, pregnant women, has designed a workout that can be used your entire pregnancy and postpartum period. Choose between six different exercises. Over 90 minutes of exercises to choose from plus 20 minutes of pregnancy and wellness information. Regardless of your current level of fitness, these exercises will help you strengthen all of the muscles needed to achieve a more comfortable pregnancy, delivery and recovery for you and your baby. This workout contains: Yoga and Gentle Stretching: Involve the entire family or can be used without a partner. Pilates: Low intensity, lower body workout designed for the days when you really don't feel like getting off the couch. Get Your Belly Flat Again: This essential workout safely trains your abdominals and minimizes back pain. High Energy: Upper and lower body exercises with resistance training that will boost your metabolism during and after pregnancy. Bonus Features: The Benefits of Kegal Exercises, Diastasis Recti Information and Self Test, How Breastfeeding Helps You Get Back in Shape. 90 mins. (2011)
DVD - All Region | Element: Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga DVDBoth during and after pregnancy, yoga is a perfect way to firm your body, build strength, and gain flexibility. These two yoga practices, filmed in a serene garden overlooking the Pacific Ocean, are also a wonderful way to maintain emotional balance and reduce stress during the exciting and often hectic times surrounding the birth of a child. In the prenatal sequence you’ll practice safe and simple movements intended to strengthen and tone your body at any stage of pregnancy, while providing relaxation that will help create a luminous space in which your baby will thrive. The postnatal sequence is designed to redefine your body, restore your energy, and help you reconnect to yourself and your own wellness. About the Instructor: Elena Brower, Certified Anusara Yoga teacher, encourages you to invite yoga’s healing benefits into every realm of your life. She is the founder of Virayoga in New York City and author of Alchemy, A Glossary. Named one of New York City’s top yoga teachers by Fit Yoga magazine, Elena’s clients include Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Watts, Minnie Driver, Eva Mendes, Christy Turlington and Rebecca Romijn. Element is proud to support the Arbor Day Foundation. For every four Element DVDs purchased, a tree will be planted (up to 20,000 trees annually). In addition to generating oxygen, trees provide air pollution control and decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide levels thereby reducing global warming. 69 mins. (2009)
DVD - Region 1 (Canada, United States; U.S. territories; more) | Amira's Belly Dance & Yoga for Pregnancy Prenatal Exercise DVDAmira’s Bellydance & Yoga for Pregnancy provides a perfect balance of well thought out routines for an expectant mother to prepare herself for the wonderful and challenging journey ahead. Amira gently leads you through warm-ups, exercises, cool downs, and covers moves that are beneficial and those that should be avoided during pregnancy. You will learn the benefits of stretching and exercise, to relax, to breathe, and to center yourself with confidence and feminine grace, leaving you feeling invigorated and re-energized. Clear explanations are given every step of the way with alternate, modified versions of many moves. Packed with information, this DVD explains the origins of belly dance and its age-old benefits for women in labor, and encourages you to be on the road to a healthy lifestyle and a smooth, happy pregnancy. This informative and fun DVD has a total running time of nearly three and a half hours and includes: Studio instruction consisting of introduction, yoga warm-up, strengthening exercises, pre-natal bellydance, exercises during labor, and cool down (90 mins); in depth interviews with professionals (30 mins); interviews with bellydance mothers (60 mins); and two beautiful performances of Amira dancing with her growing belly (10 mins). Amira is an internationally renowned belly dance artist whose passion for the arts, combined with the solid years of medical studies spent earning an RN degree have given her a unique perspective into the benefits of yoga, dance and exercise on a women and her baby’s health before, during, and after pregnancy. 208 mins. (2009)
DVD - All Region | Yoga Pulse: Pregnant, Fit & Tight Prenatal Workout DVDPregnancy is a very special time in a woman's life. During pregnancy, the expectant mother learns how nourishing, loving and tuning in to her changing body increases hers and her baby's awareness, health and well-being. The breathing exercises and the affirmations, taught by Anastasia as part of this Yoga Pulse program, help the expectant mother to feel strong, calm, capable and supported. This program has helped many women and their babies worldwide. The positions used in Yoga Pulse are fun, effective and safe both for a long-term practitioner of yoga and for a complete beginner! This Yoga Pulse program, uniquely designed and developed by Anastasia, a yoga expert, nutritional consultant, former international model and a mother of a wonderful little boy, teaches expectant mothers the safe ways to move their bodies and the gentle ways to tune into their minds. As a result, the typical pregnancy concerns, such as low back discomfort, heaviness, pain and tiredness become hardly noticeable! And you’ll get a safe workout! 45 mins. (2009)
DVD - All Region | Mark Blanchard's Progressive Power Yoga: Prenatal Pregnancy Routines DVDMany 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 series. The woman shown in her first trimester is doing yoga for the first time! 60 mins. (2009)
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