Sara Hollidays Prenatal Yoga First Trimester DVD
Be fit, look and feel great from the beginning of your journey with Sara Holliday’s Prenatal Yoga: First Trimester. In this revolutionary prenatal yoga class fitness expert Sara Holliday, uses her extensive training in teaching yoga to guide you with safe and effective postures and poses that may result in a decrease in pain caused by pregnancy, an increase in muscle tone and strength, an improvement in flexibility, and a feeling of well being.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Low quality cinemetography, but EXCELLENT series of poses
I am a person who loves special features, extravagent sets, and perfect costumes. At first, I was put off by the apparent low-budget set. After I did the practice, I began to appreciate the instructor’s effectivenss and choice of rotine. Its one of the only prenatal yoga videos that have strengthening and toning as a focus, rather than relaxing or stretching. Most of the poses are standing poses, similar to a real yoga class. Many other prenatal yoga dvds are designed to be “generic”… I mean that its okay for all stages of pregnancy. This one is unique because it doesn’t modify to be too easy.
If you have done yoga in a studio, you will probably like this dvd. If you do yoga to relax rather than tone, it probably is not what you want.
A word about the instructor - she has a confident voice, not whinny or breathy. She also looks like an athlete - a swimmer or something. She is very strong looking. Also- she did not indicate that she was actually pregnant at the time of filming- only that she did these type of things during her pregnancy.
I will do this the next time I am pregnant.
1 Star video for experts
This video was clearly for those yoga experts or people that do yoga quite often. I am not new to yoga, but I had quite a bit of difficultly completing this video. This is not a relaxing exercise for those in first trimester that experience fatigue AND nausea!!!! I’m not impressed, and feel ripped off by the whole experience!!!!!
2 Stars Insufficient explanation - not a good yoga video
I bought all three series of prenatal yoga and I regret it. This video does not offer walk throughs on how to do many of the poses. She just quickly changes from one pose to the next, without explaining how to do it, give you time to inhale or exhale properly, show you where and how to position hands and feet for support, or how to twist core body, etc. Both her verbal explanations and visuals leave me frustrated, wondering if I should position the hands one way or another for a particular pose. What is worse, the camera does not follow many of her important movements, focusing sometimes only on her face or on a detail of her shirt, instead of showing how she is positioning her arms, hand, toes, etc. even when she puts them behind her body — these are important details in yoga, because incorrect poses can lead to injuries.
5 Stars Feels good!
I have done yoga before, but am definitely not very flexible. I can actually do these poses and feel like I’m getting a good stetch, and it’s not sooo challening that I feel totally sore the next day. I like walking and am even still running some on the days I don’t do the yoga, and it’s a great opportunity to do more stretching and toning than I would get otherwise. Sara is a great instructor and very easy to follow. Unlike another reviewer who really liked the relaxation portion at the end, I tend to fast-forward through it…but over all I’ve really enjoyed it and I’m really motivated to do it because I feel like I’m doing something good for the growing baby! It’s nice that Sara has a new video for each trimester, because I’m just beginning to get excited about trying a new one!
1 Star Tried this once and gave it away…
I have tried a few different prenatal yoga dvds and this one was by far my least favorite. The first thing I noticed was the laughably bad production value. The word “cheesy” comes to mind. A smoke machine?! It was a bit silly. And her instruction was seriously lacking. I guess for someone who is really new to yoga this might be ok, but even her breathing instruction bothered me. She seemed to have lungs the size of a small bird or something, I could not go at her pace as my breaths took much longer. Overall, I wasn’t thrilled with every aspect of this dvd, the poses, the way she instructed them, the sound quality (AWFUL,) the video quality, the ridiculous set, etc. Save your money or invest in a different dvd.