But The Core workout is great! I wanted it and saw it on TV only and once I saw it in target it was worth spending the money! It cost only 60 bucks! Def worth it!I'm going to start with Pilates recommendations, since that discipline isn't as wide and varying.
For books, Brooke Siler's The Pilates Body and anything by Alycea Ungaro are excellent.
In terms of videos, you might want to look at Pilates for Dummies; beginning or basics videos by Hilary Burnett, Ana Caban, Moira Stott, and Mari Winsor; and Rael 7 Pilates.
Once you've done some working through at least one of these more instructional videos, you might want to look into these slightly more beginner / intermediate videos that still provide good instruction on form, etc.: AM Pilates, the Crunch Pilates videos (like Pick Your Spot Pilates), Quick Fix Pilates (but not Quick Fix Pilates Abs - that one's more intermediate), You Can Do Pilates, Prevention Flatten Your Belly with Pilates, The Quick and Dirty Guide to Pilates, and videos by Denise Austin and Kathy Smith.
(As much as I enjoy the 10 Minute Solution Pilates videos, they do not provide enough form and breath instruction for a true beginner, nor does the second one, Rapid Results Pilates, in particular offer enough modifications for those without sufficient strength and/or flexibility to perform the exercises fully).
I find yoga more difficult to recommend material for because there are so many different styles, but here are some ideas to get you started.
For books, you might want to browse Yoga Journal's Yoga Basics, The American Yoga Association Beginner's Manual, Miriam Austin's Cool Yoga Tricks, Judith Lasater's 30 Essential Yoga Poses (or any book by her), Mark Ansari and Liz Lark's Yoga for Beginners, even Yoga for Dummies and the Complete Idiot's Guide to Yoga are all right. If you're tolerant of discussions of yogic meditation, I love Erich Schiffmann's The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness.
For videos, you might find this thread from VideoFitness.com's forum as one place to start: http://forum.videofitness.com/showthread.php?t=12669.
If you're looking for more information on Pilates and yoga videos and books, I highly recommend CollageVideo.com, where you can see previews of the videos they have in stock and read customer reviews; VideoFitness.com, where you can read consumer reviews of a ton of videos and some books as well as ask questions on their forum; and YourExerciseDVDs.com, where you can read professional reviews of a number of videos.
Good luck as you begin your yoga and Pilates practices! If you possibly can save up for one live class in each discipline early on, I highly recommend that. If you can't, at least enlist someone to check your form every once in a while, as it can make a huge difference in the safety and enjoyment of both practices.
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Meditation And Yoga Books Going The Universal Route For A Healthy Living And Peaceful Existence
Article by Sanjay Joshi
Enough problems seem to the order of the day where chaos is considered to be normal. With the struggle for existence gaining ground, day after day, people are seemingly fed up with the hardships of life. This might be a reason for the search for peace and harmonious life. To attain this end, people have search for various methods and processes.
Meditation and yoga enrichment are thought to be the result of such search, although these have been known to mankind since the days of mythology. In those days, sages were known to go for meditation and penance to attain moksha and were known to sit in yogic postures during their worship. They did these procedures with such dedication and orientation that the gods were forced to sympathise with them and in return granted them wishes for longevity or immortality. Although such things are not practiced in many numbers, but still they have been practiced in the early days.
Meditation and yoga books are a common thing nowadays, with these available in almost every part of the world. Irrespective of age group, people are using such yoga books and guides to learn the different methods to carry out the yoga stances. Yoga guides are also available in form of audio and video formats which can be put in the walkman or in the television while doing these meditation procedures. A lot of famous personalities from the world of yoga have released their yogic techniques in these audio and video formats, which are available in the shops.
Even, camps on yoga and meditation are being organized by these yoga gurus to disperse the methods of yoga and also preach about the incumbent benefits of the procedure. The popularity of these have become so much among the common man that it is clearly evident from the huge turnout during these training sessions and in the large scale sale of these cassettes. People have known about these yogic postures and have known about the existence of yoga guides, but in recent years the inclination towards such subjects it is seen in a larger magnitude.
People who are able to carry out these processes have claimed to get the actual benefits, as the process of improvement is quite slow. In the personal level, people use these training and yoga exercises and instructions to have a better modality in their approach. They try to follow the principles and poses of yoga, which are required to be practiced daily. As the yoga enrichment is being specially required by people with chronic morbid diseases, they should start these techniques only in consultation with the treating doctor, who are also advising for yogic postures, at least in the minimal manner. These meditation and yoga books are being sought after in almost all parts of the country as well as in the world. Being simple to practice, and effectiveness in the long term, yoga exercises and instructions are required to be followed in a disciplined matter, as the results are there for the people to see, but in the end.
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