# Recommend a yoga video for flexibility?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-yoga-video-for-flexibility/264625>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 16, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-yoga-video-for-flexibility/264625 "2004-09-16T00:41:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-yoga-video-for-flexibility/264625/1 "2004-09-16T00:41:02Z")

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I am looking for a video to improve my flexibility.

I already have AM/PM Yoga with Rodney Yee and Patricia Walden. The PM yoga in particular has really helped with my hamstrings. Observe as I touch the floor in Standing Head-to-Knees! Hurrah!

I also do a weekly yoga class. It’s great, but it’s old-people yoga, so it’s all about easy-on-the-joints stuff, whereas I figger that I, as a spry young person, better bust my butt improving flexilbity now while my cartilage is still intact. The thing I like about the class is that we do mostly long holds, and work on perfecting our form, rather than flowing from pose to pose as in AM/PM. Also, the AM/PM workouts are a little short, and I’d like a longer workout for my days off.

Can you recommend an intermediate-level video, half hour to an hour long, that goes at slow pace with long holds, and places some emphasis on flexiblity? I prefer DVD to VHS, but that’s not a deal-breaker.

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**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-yoga-video-for-flexibility/264625/2 "2004-09-16T06:29:52Z")

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I love the Yoga Zone series.

My favorites for flexibility are the beginners tape “Flexibility and Tone” and the intermediate tape “Flexibility and Stress Release”. Even though I am definitley intermediate, I find the beginners tape still challenging.

Available on [Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000060MUE/qid=1095316152/sr=8-4/ref=pd_csp_4/104-6545933-6134308?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846) and at the [Yogazone.com](http://www.yogazone.com/catalog.aspx?catid=25) website. They are available on DVD, but I’ve had them for a while and so have VHS.

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**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-yoga-video-for-flexibility/264625/3 "2004-09-16T14:00:34Z")

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Hmmm . . . flexibility _and_ stress relief. I can use both of those. 🙂 Thanks, **Rhiannon**!