[Video] Outdoor Morning Yoga Session

This 8-minute yoga sequence is designed to wake your body up and get you moving in the morning. It's great for relieving morning stiffness and improving flexibility, and it's so quick and simple that it's a really good one to keep in mind while traveling. You can do this wherever you are! If you don't have a yoga mat with you, a towel or blanket works too.

Enjoy this one in the grass, on the beach, or wherever life takes you this summer!

Video:10-Minute Yoga Set for Runners

This short yoga routine will help stretch and strengthen your entire body, and the stretching movements will help loosen tight hips and leg and core muscles made sore by running (or working out). Tight muscles in these areas can affect your gait and potentially cause injury, so it's important to loosen these tight areas.

These simple yoga exercises will help alleviate stiffness and soreness in your lower body and help you get the most out of your running practice. (Plus the instructor is a hoot!)  :-)




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Video - 10 Minute Beginner Workout

This is a very easy modified beginner yoga video that will give you a feel for the lengthening and stretching properties of yoga, modified for those who may just be starting yoga and want an easy and gentle introduction to the practice. If you've ever wanted to try yoga but thought it would be too difficult for you, this one is for you!  It's also a great place to start for those who haven't worked out much for a while, and are getting back into exercising. These gentle movements will help get the blood flowing, and start to limber up your joints and muscles. It can also be used as a warmup for a more advanced yoga routine or other type of workout.

This short and easy routine gives you no excuse for not doing at least some form of exercise today! Ease into exercising with this video, and get ready for more next week!

 

More Fast, Fun & Easy Yoga Workouts:
   

Video - Ab-Trimming Yoga Workout

This 10-minute yoga workout features poses and exercises focused on strengthening and tightening your core muscles to trim that waist and strengthen your midsection. The awesome thing about yoga is that it actually works your entire body, even while focusing on certain areas, so your whole body can get stronger and leaner even just in a short workout. Do this a couple of times a week to build a strong core and back, improve your posture, and flatten your abs. Some of these exercises are fairly challenging, so be sure to use the modifications where suggested if you need to, and be careful of your lower back if you have had problems in that area. Once you get your core stronger, you'll be able to do the full versions of the exercises.

Yoga Abs Workout
This ab workout is designed to strengthen and shrink your midsection using core-focused yoga moves to define trimmer, tighter abs.

Video - 10-Minute Beginners Yoga Workout

Here is a 10-minute yoga workout for beginners. This video walks you through a few basic yoga poses at a fairly quick pace designed to challenge your muscles and raise your heart rate to burn some calories. Although yoga is not a cardio workout, it actually can really help with weight loss due to the fact that it works and strengthens all your muscles, thus raising your metabolism, so you're actually burning fat for quite a while after your workout. Plus it leaves you feeling relaxed and energized, rather than exhausted, so it can be easier to motivate yourself to work out using yoga rather than a faster-paced aerobic workout.

Enjoy this one, and see below the video for some other short and fun yoga workouts:

Weight Loss Yoga for Beginners
This routine is designed for beginners and anyone looking for a simple practice to build strength, flexibility, and promote weight loss.


A Few Quick & Fun Yoga Workouts:
   

Review: 10-Minute Solution Yoga (DVD)

I'm always excited when I get a new workout DVD - sometimes I don't do anything but the new one for a few months! I'm trying to keep myself on a more varied rotation these days, but this new one I just got just lends itself so perfectly to the short workout time I usually have available.... I had this one on my Amazon wishlist for a while, but I wasn't sure it would provide me with a good enough workout, so it took me a while to actually order it. I've had it for a few weeks now, and am extremely happy with it.

10 Minute Solution Yoga is part of the 10-Minute Solution series of workout DVDs, and is one of the most highly rated in the series by users.

It consists of 5 different 10-minute yoga sessions, which can be combined in any order for a longer workout, or done individually as a stand-alone workout if you only have 10 minutes.

The 5 sessions on the DVD are:

Yoga Basics - Designed as the "first" session, this workout takes you through several basic yoga poses at a nice pace and flow. I thought this one would be too easy, but it really wasn't. The rather quick pace was a little unexpected the first time through, but even now that I'm used to it, it's still challenging enough and a lot of fun. So far I'm liking this session the best.

Yoga for Buns & Thighs - This session works the larger muscles in the lower half of the body, with poses such as Chair and some of the Warrior poses challenging your thighs and butt, but without ignoring the rest of the body.

Yoga postures Navasana (Boat pose) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yoga for Abs - This session is all about the abs, and boy does it ever work them! As someone who has done Pilates for over 10 years, and yoga for two, plus lots of other ab-focused workouts over the years, I didn't expect this one to be so challenging for me. By the end of the 10 minutes, my entire mid-section was totally burning! This session features Boat pose, and other core-focused poses.

Yoga Burn - I've only done this session once so far, and I wasn't as impressed with it as I had expected to be. It seemed slower than I thought it would be, although it did have a few more challenging poses. I may come to like it better as I get used to it though - maybe I just was distracted by concentrating on the instructions the first time through.

Yoga postures Shavasana (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yoga for Flexibility and Relaxation - Flexibility is something I really struggle with, with all the back problems I've had in the past. I could really do this session every day. It really stretches all of my tight areas like hips and butt, and it's a nice, relaxing pace to end the workout with. I do wish it included a longer Shavasana pose at the end though - I know they were trying to fit it all into 10 minutes, but it would have been nice to have like a "Bonus" optional 3-5 minute Shavasana at the end (I usually just do one anyway).

Overall, this is a really nice beginner-to-intermediate yoga DVD. It could stand to have better music - the music seems a little canned and boring - but it doesn't really bother me.

My favorite thing (and I love this and think ALL workout DVDs should have this feature) is the "Create Your Own Workout" feature. This allows you to choose which sessions you want to do, and in what order, before beginning the workout. This makes it easy to pick two or 3 sessions and play them all, without having to stop in the middle of your workout time and find the next session you want to do. It's really cool!

Since a lot of times I only have 10-20 minutes to work out, this DVD fits really well into my schedule. I do have several other yoga DVDs I really like, but sometimes I don't have enough time to do the whole workout, so now, rather than skipping a workout that day, I can just pull out this one and play a session or two. I've found myself getting a workout in a lot more often lately, which was my goal in purchasing this DVD - and I'm really enjoying it!

Whether you're pressed for time, like me, or you just want to add another good yoga DVD to your rotation, this is a great one to grab - and you can find it for less than $10 on Amazon.com.


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