Is This Yoga DVD All It’s Cracked Up to Be?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U2KEM4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=artistichocom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B003U2KEM4I have been a big advocate of using yoga as a preventative and treatment for anxiety and stress relief. I would never claim to be some super flexible yogi who can bend into a pretzel, but doing the stretches and poses and combining that with the slow diaphragmatic breathing does feel really, really good. I think yoga is soothing and gentle and wonderful.

So imagine my surprise and delight this morning when I went into my email and saw a recommendation for me straight from good ol’ Amazon. This recommendation is for a DVD called Yoga for Depression and Anxiety. It doesn’t seem to be “just another yoga DVD” either. This DVD has (at the time of this writing) 135 customer reviews, with 111 of these reviews being a full 5 stars. This means an excellent product and excellent customer service.

I posted just the other day how I overcame my gym anxiety step by step. And what I did to actually get in the front door of the gym was head straight to a class for yoga for anxiety control. While I now love going to the gym, there just aren’t that many yoga classed offered. I’m thinking Yoga for Depression and Anxiety will be a great addition to my video library :)

However… I don’t like to buy a product before actually reading the customer reviews. There seems to be a huge disconnect between the customers that love this product and the ones who were clearly less than amazed.

Here is one very enthusiastic 5 star review:

AWESOME AND INSPIRING WORKOUT

I suffer from mild anxiety and wanted to try a natural way of coping with it. After seeing all the great reviews on this DVD, I had to try it– and I am so glad I did! First off, it is a great workout. Second, it really does help me relax. At the end of the DVD Ira says something about how if you just concentrated solely on your breathing and nothing else for even one breath, then it did its job in ceasing your anxiety. It’s really taught me how to take 75 minutes out of my day and instead of constantly thinking and worrying, just concentrate on my breathing. It can be done!– you can realize how it feels to think more clearly! I’m not in the best of shape in order to do yoga, so unfortunately, I can’t achieve all of the poses yet, but it’s my goal to do so and I’m hoping it just gets better in time!

And this is just a partial expert from a one star review:

“Worst Yoga DVD I Own”

Really, I am AMAZED at the amount of positive reviews on this. Seriously, I’m quite taken aback. The best yoga I’ve ever experienced was with a teacher who, throughout the practice, would always go back to the idea of being safe within yourself, loved, secure and one with the Earth. That kind of self-affirmation and connectedness with the energy pulsating through everything, while stretching and developing my bodies abilities to be a more present part of this web of life energy helped heal my constant worrying more than anything. I guess I should just start looking for a program more along those lines, if a teacher with a DVD like that exists out there… because this is not it.I’m assuming Ira would probably say my experience with the DVD was bad because I had “expectations” about it to begin with. Maybe its just me, but when I buy a DVD called “Yoga for Depression and Anxiety” I expect it to deal with these concepts, or how to address them, throughout the practice…. not just tell me:

“Oh, you have depression because you resent your past, and you have anxiety because you have expectations about your future, now – lets do some yoga!”

So I’m kind of on the fence at this point. I have had the experience of buying something on Amazon with hundreds of 5 star reviews only to be really disappointed with the product. I’m wondering if this would be the case with Yoga for Depression & Anxiety DVD?

I see there is now the option on Amazon to try it on Instant Video for 7 days for $3.99. If anyone is interested, here is the link to that.

Have any of you tried this video? I would be really curious to see if it is all it’s cracked up to be. If it is that good, I will be thrilled to have it. But honestly if it stinks, I don’t want to buy another DVD just to have it laying around. Let me know what you think…

I wish you peace,
Jill G.

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