This listing is for GAIAM Body Target: Hips & Thighs DVD.

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

MPAA rating: NR (Not Rated)

Media Format: Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC

Run time: 1 hour

Release date: November 18, 2003

Actors: Body Target

Studio: Gaiam - Fitness

Number of discs: 1  

Jillian Hessel and Suzanne Deason present this volume of yoga and pilates combination exercises designed to target excess weight in the hips and thighs. These are from Gaiam which was Living Arts & has been repackaging their material for a while. The lower body yoga first came out on it's own years ago, then apart of a "The Total-Body Yoga Workout: Lower Body, Abs, and Upper Body Yoga for Beginners" * "Mind Body Solutions for Lower Body Conditioning - Yoga / Balance Ball / Pilates" dvd as well.

The yoga is with Susanne Season. The music is light, the scene is her near the edge of a cliff with gorgeous mountain range behind her. She is alone & there is no modifications.

There is no sun salutations, but a lot of downward dog, standing fwd bends, chair & mountain. Add is lunges, hand/knee with arm/leg balance, donward dog with 1 leg lifted, plank, upward dog, warrior 1 2 & 3, triangle, side angle, half moon, dancer's pose, bridge, reclined single leg stretch, boat, sitting fwd bend, wide legged fwd bend, reclined cobblers, etc.

If you own several yoga dvds, the pace is not power fast, nor does she hold it a long time. This is not for the first time yoga, but it is not intermediate level. I loved the workout though, there are many poses were if you do too many sun salutations, you never have time for many other poses. The pilates workout is outside with Jillian Hessel & another woman showing the modifications set outside in a valley with a forest nearby. Jillian has a slow, strong, clear voice & shows a lot of concern for lower back strain by using props. The workout was very easy with many rests in child's pose in between. Mostly it was learning posture when standing, then laying down & doing leg stretches, bicycle, leg lifts, leg splits, leg circles & bridge, but almost never picking your head up for added ab work. Then standing for ballet wannabe easy plies & standing on your toes.

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