The first week is about establishing a foundation and teaching the fundamentals. It is great for beginners because it teaches you about yoga positions and mindset. But that isn’t what this program is really about. I have not lost any weight, and I am not a human pretzel yet who can bend into all kinds of flexible positions. I’ve been doing the program for about two months now and I really like it. Three weeks is really no time at all and I would feel like I was just getting started in that amount of time. I had no expectations for weight loss or mastery of yoga from this program. But I was more interested in the increased flexibility and strength that could be gained from doing yoga. I wasn’t really interested in the program for the weight loss aspect. I did pay close attention to the teeny tiny print on the screen during each of the testimonials and saw that everyone had done multiple rounds of the 3 Week Yoga Retreat and followed a calorie restricted diet, and most had become Beach Body coaches. The 3 Week Yoga Retreat does tout weight loss. So I am not falling for Beach Body promises again. We were definitely stronger and I really enjoyed the variety of the workouts but that was a HUGE time commitment and we expected more. The commercials promised that we would look ripped and we did not. We still argue with my husband about this because he said we quit just when we were starting to look good. We did NOT look like those ripped people in the commercials. 🙂 We even extended it and did our own P120X, adding an extra thirty days. We were so sick of turkey bacon by the end of it. We did every workout, we never missed a day, and we followed the eating program. Back in the day when P90X was all the rage, my daughter and I committed to that program and followed it TO THE LETTER.
I’m a sucker for infomercials, but not for Beach Body. This program is offered by Beach Body and the infomercials feature Leeza Gibbons and several participants with success stories. Still not quite was I was looking for.Ī few months ago I started seeing those late night infomercials for the 3 Week Yoga Retreat Program. I felt a little detached from the whole thing, though, because all of the instruction was done as a voice over, with the instructor doing each pose without talking directly to the camera. The classes were very soothing and I liked them. One day she might be by the beach, the next in the woods, or in a garden of sunflowers.
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One thing I really liked about this series is that all of the segments are filmed outside in nature. Then I tried Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr. I’m not sure she means to be, but I think this gal is really entertaining. Also, for some reason she just really amused me more than anything. Wai Lana sings and dances for quite a while at the end of every episode. But time wise, the program was fairly light on yoga and really heavy on some singing and dancing at the end. She is very flexible and I found some of the poses too advanced for me. I liked that each program addressed a different aspect of fitness, like strength, or stamina, or flexibility. The scenery in this series is beautiful, and Wai Lana wears really colorful outfits and flowers in each segment. The first one I tried was the Wai Lana Yoga Series. Most of them come on super early in the morning so there was no chance I would see them live, 🙂 so I set up a recording schedule for several different programs.
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I did a search on the TV guide and saw there were lots of yoga programs I could record and do from home. I started doing that and enjoyed it but I felt that between the drive, the class, and then coffee I was giving up too much of my day to this. Several of the students began asking me to join them for coffee after class. They also weren’t as friendly as the gentle class students. I held my own but I felt out of place with the bendy girls. I wasn’t sure, but I attended that session the following week. After a few sessions, the instructor told me I could definitely handle the more strenuous class. I really liked the class and didn’t feel intimidated by the instructor or the other students. 🙂 I felt like I should start with the less strenuous class since I didn’t have much yoga experience. They have two types of classes–a more gentle class that is less strenuous, and a class for all the hardcore bendy chicks. I am a member of a club that also offers weekly yoga classes so I started going.
I had done a little yoga in the past, so I decided to look into starting up again. When my daughter left for college I was determined to stay busy and keep moving. You can read my disclosure page for more information.
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