YOGA ZONE:FLEXIBILITY AND TONE – DVD MovieAlan Finger gently guides you through 60 minutes of basic yoga postures with beginner and advanced modifications (two instructors skillfully demonstrate both levels). You’ll need a mat, one or two towels, and strap or belt to assist in certain poses. The best part of this video is Finger’s specific and explicit instruction on breathing techniques to build energy and heat in the body’s system. He cues each breath, and you can watch the instructor’s rib cage expand and rise on the inhale, release and lower on the exhale. With breathing as a focus, a dozen yoga postures are introduced and practiced, including potted-palm series, cat, down dog, mountain, sunburst and worship, proud warrior, scale, and cow’s head. Many of these poses are also practiced in Finger’s Introduction to Yoga video, although Yoga Zone: Flexibility and Tone offers more advanced variations and poses. If you are interested in the mental and physical benefits of yoga–increased flexibility, conditioning and toning of muscles, stress reduction, and relaxation of the mind–this video is a keeper. –Christine Aiken

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You can improve your vision-without glasses or expensive surgery. Meir Schneider is living proof. Born without sight, Schneider refused to surrender to his blindness and instead began an intensive exploration of sight and self-healing systems. Now on Yoga for Your Eyes, he shares the total approach for self-healing that he used to reverse his own blindness.

On Yoga for Your Eyes, this respected mind-body authority teaches a complete video course about his innovative methods for improving vision naturally. Watch and learn with Schneider as he shows you how to exercise your eyes back to health. Based on the pioneering work of ophthalmologist William Bates, these proven techniques draw from the principles of Tibetan yoga to relax and retrain the visual system and help us see the world with less strain, greater acuity, and a more spacious visual field.

Meir Schneider can see-and that’s a miracle. Whether you would like to improve your eyesight or learn the role that the eyes play in a complete wellness program, Meir Schneider’s Yoga for Your Eyes is all you need. Includes a 65-page illustrated study guide and an eye chart.

DVD, 74 minutes.”This is yoga because this is union with the eyes,” explains Meir Schneider in the introduction to Yoga for Your Eyes. Born legally blind, Schneider underwent many operations as a child but was unable to see more than light and shadow; he had to do all of his schoolwork in Braille. Today he is able to drive a car without use of glasses or contacts, after improving his sight holistically. In this video, Schneider shares his techniques, using movements that originate in two main sources: the techniques of ophthalmologist William Bates and Tibetan yoga.

To begin, Schneider instructs you to remove your contacts or glasses (how he expects you to see the screen clearly enough to follow the exercises is not explained). Then he moves on to “palming,” a vision-improving exercise. The instruction is thorough, including directions on how to breathe, and the movements are simple and relaxing. The second segment is “Testing Your Vision,” in which you’re told to make your own eye chart to graph your improvement. “Stimulating Your Peripheral Vision” is next, and it requires three pieces of black construction paper and tape to help you balance the use of both eyes together. “Outdoor Exercises” explains why older people have more vision difficulties and shows how to improve this problem. The final exercises–”Sunning,” “Skying,” and “Long Swing”–help you to adapt to bright lights.

Schneider is an earnest instructor, who obviously believes strongly in his methods. If you’re looking for a natural way to improve your eyesight, Yoga for Your Eyes is the place to begin. Also included with the video is a 62-page study guide. –Jenny Brown

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