Exercise & Fitness Videos

Wellness

Health & Wellness Videos and DVD

Quickfix Rx: KneeHab for Knee Health with Jill Miller DVD

Quickfix Rx: KneeHab for Knee Health with Jill Miller DVD

Whether you’re a triathlete in training or just starting rehab, Quickfix Rx: KneeHab will help unravel bad habits that lead to injuries and knee pain.

Learn dozens of exercises with four specialized sequences based on the health level of your knees! Open up new ranges of motion and recondition your knees from the inside-out.

Includes four specialized routines based on the health level of your knees:
1. Pre-Hab – a self-massage maintenance program to help keep your knees healthy, pain-free and nimble;
2. KneeHab 1 – helps those recovering from injury to safely gain mobility and strength;
3. KneeHab 2 – connects knee mobility, stability and agility into the core;
4. KneeHow – gives healthy knees powerful strength training exercises ti improve athletic performance.
Bonus: Knee Anatomy - learn how proper alignment in your hips and ankles affect your knees!

After studying yoga, movement, and the human body for over twenty years, I created Yoga Tune Up as a simple way to restore my body and mind, keeping me balanced and free of pain. Using a specific and unique set of poses, movements and self massage tools, you too can live better in your body with Yoga Tune Up.

Embodying more than 25 years of expertise in the movement arts and body therapy, Jill Miller brings her expertise to a worldwide audience through innovative workshops, retreats and teacher trainings.


Chi Kung: The Healing Workout with Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson DVD

Chi Kung: The Healing Workout with Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson DVD

The sharpness of the mind, strength of the body, and the clarity of the spirit are all essential for health and vitality. Chi Kung exercises work on all three. Chi Kung training combines the quiescent state of meditation with graceful Ta Chi-like movements in order to form energy building exercises.

So effective are these exercises that today in China, Chi Kung is prescribed for ailments and illnesses as readily as medicine is administered in the West.

So powerful are these exercises that for centuries Martial Artists have use Chi Kung to empower their fighting and athletic abilities.

Yet these exercises are simple, gentle, easy-to-learn and are for all ages and levels of fitness and coordination.


Broadway Dance Center: Care and Feeding of a Dancer DVD

Broadway Dance Center: Care and Feeding of a Dancer DVD

The Care and Feeding of a Dancer DVD is a must-have guide for dancers who want to take it to the next level.

Join us as Toni Branner, exercise physiologist, author, and (most importantly) mother of a dancer, presents the latest research on free radical damage and oxidative stress in dancers and athletes.

Develop your free radical defense system by eating foods with the right nutrients. Learn real and simple solutions to improve your family’s nutrition. Prevent disease, enhance your immune system, and achieve optimal health.

Research regarding the prevention of memory loss, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and aging will be shared.

This is your chance to impact your future and your dancer’s future in the most meaningful way.


Strong Knees DVD

Strong Knees

Knee pain is not a prerequisite to aging. In fact, almost all knee injuries can be easily prevented and treated.

The secret is knowing exactly how to take care of these important joints when they’re hurting and while they’re healthy. This simple strengthening and stretching routine targets the muscles that protect your knees to avoid undue stress and strain. It also targets painful areas to speed in their healing.

Physical therapist Chantal Donnelly created this gentle routine to help you exercise your way to good knee health. Features: "7 Minutes to Save Your Knees" abridged workout; exercise modifications for all fitness levels; and bonus exercises and techniques.


Yoga for Back Care DVD

Yoga for Back Care

A healthy back is within reach. A strong, healthy back is essential to you well-being and vitality.

Through our often sedentary day-to-day activities – sitting at a computer, driving to/from work, relaxing on the couch – we weaken our otherwise healthy backs and develop poor posture.

Yoga for Back Care was designed to strengthen your back and help counter the ill effects of our busy lives. Through a series of stretches and postures, internationally acclaimed yoga instructor Rodney Yee teaches you to develop a stronger, healthier back. As you progress through the workout, you’ll move from sitting to standing to floor exercises. Together, these exercises will help lengthen and loosen your spine for greater agility and flexibility.

Props Recommended: Chair, Mat, Strap, Brick, Bolster, Blanket.

Rodney Yee was a professional ballet dancer who later studied Iyengar yoga. He travels nationally and internationally to teach workshops, teacher-training and retreats. Rodney has been designing and performing in Gaiam programs for over 10 years. He has been featured on Oprah and other national programs.


Crazy Sexy Cancer DVD

Crazy Sexy Cancer

“Cancer needed a makeover, and I was just the gal to do it!” says cancer survivor Kris Carr about her documentary that chronicles a different kind of journey with this life-changing disease.

Both outrageously entertaining and poignant, the story finds Carr exiting her acting career to film her encounters as a newly diagnosed cancer patient. Turned off by cancer’s doom and gloom image, she teams up with her band of crazy, sexy “Cancer Posse” girlfriends — from a luminous Glamour editor to a fiery rock-concert tour producer.

Together they film the dark and scary as well as the “silly, fun, real and practical” sides of living with cancer. You’ll cry and you’ll laugh out loud as these brave women learn how to salvage their dignity, spirit, style, and sense of humor when the “hospital ball” turns their lives inside out.

Over one hour of special features including: 25 minute healing yoga routine and guided relaxation with award-winning instructor Rodney Yee; ways to find your Om; Get juiced — in the kitchen with Kris Carr; simple detox methods; and deleted scenes and extended interviews.

Kris Carr is an award-winning actress, best-selling author, filmmaker and subject of the inspirational documentary, Crazy Sexy Cancer. The film, which she wrote and directed, chronicles her four-year adventure of living and thriving with stage-four cancer.

It premiered on TLC (The Learning Channel) and Discovery Health. Kris shares every step of her journey to wellness in a practical, funny and endearing style, wearing cowboy boots into the MRI machine, no less.

She has been featured on The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show and many more.


Scott Cole: Millennium Stretch DVD

Scott Cole: Millennium Stretch

Join Scott Cole on a multi-dimensional journey of proven relaxation techniques – in a comprehensive 2-hour array of workout options that can be customized to fit your own schedule and fitness needs.

From standing and seated stretching options to partnered or individual workouts, Millennium Stretch Classic Gold Edition has something for everyone and is appropriate for all ages and fitness levels.

The Original Millennium Stretch Workout: Feel the stress melt away as you explore transformational movement therapy, qigong, tai chi, yoga, stretching and guided imagery. This delectable blend of healing arts is designed to improve flexibility and release blocked energy.

Millennium Stretch for 2 - Partnered Relaxation: Pair up for increased strength, flexibility, body awareness and trust. Couples, friends, family members, trainers and clients – any two people can enjoy this powerful program. Beyond the 8 Poses of Empowerment: Explore the mysteries of Scott’s world-renowned 8 Poses – what they are, where they come from and how they can work for you.


Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Weight Loss DVD

Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Weight Loss

Even a slight weight gain can lead to more serious health issues, so it's important to address a weight problem before it escalates. Find out why the answer isn't a "fad" diet, and learn how whole-body lifestyle changes - not just eating habits - can help steer you away from dangerous obesity.

Each program includes: An informative 30-minute conversation with Mayo Clinic Specialists; a consultation with Mayo Clinic dieticians to teach you what to eat and what to avoid with respect to your condition; an instruction by Rodney Yee which guides you through condition-specific relaxation poses and mediation exercises, designed to help relieve tension and enhance circulation; and a 52-page stress-management workbook.


Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Back Pain DVD

Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Back Pain

When your back hurts, the rest of your body hurts, too. Discover strategies for safely stretching and strengthening your back, nutritional plans, and many other natural options to help lessen nagging back pain.

Each program includes: An informative 30-minute conversation with Mayo Clinic Specialists; a consultation with Mayo Clinic dieticians to teach you what to eat and what to avoid with respect to your condition; an instruction by Rodney Yee which guides you through condition-specific relaxation poses and mediation exercises, designed to help relieve tension and enhance circulation; and a 52-page stress-management workbook.


Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Arthritis DVD

Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Arthritis

Wellness Solutions for Arthritis is based on the fact that early intervention is one of the keys to combating the aching, swelling and pain associated with arthritis. Learn the essential nutrients for joint health as well as how to get moving and stretching to help significantly relieve your symptoms.

Each program includes: An informative 30-minute conversation with Mayo Clinic Specialists; a consultation with Mayo Clinic dieticians to teach you what to eat and what to avoid with respect to your condition; an instruction by Rodney Yee which guides you through condition-specific relaxation poses and mediation exercises, designed to help relieve tension and enhance circulation; and a 52-page stress-management workbook.


Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Menopause DVD

Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Menopause

Menopause is inevitable, but it doesn't have to be unbearable. Women's symptoms can vary greatly; learn how to identify yours and make informed decisions about hormone replacement therapy and other strategies for coping with frustrating symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and fatigue.

Each program includes: An informative 30-minute conversation with Mayo Clinic Specialists; a consultation with Mayo Clinic dieticians to teach you what to eat and what to avoid with respect to your condition; an instruction by Rodney Yee which guides you through condition-specific relaxation poses and mediation exercises, designed to help relieve tension and enhance circulation; and a 52-page stress-management workbook.


Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Type Two Diabetes DVD

Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Type Two Diabetes

While there is no cure for diabetes, there are ways to manage - and maybe prevent - the condition. Find out how body weight affects diabetes and discover lifestyle changes that might make your condition just a little easier to live with.

Each program includes: An informative 30-minute conversation with Mayo Clinic Specialists; a consultation with Mayo Clinic dieticians to teach you what to eat and what to avoid with respect to your condition; an instruction by Rodney Yee which guides you through condition-specific relaxation poses and mediation exercises, designed to help relieve tension and enhance circulation; and a 52-page stress-management workbook.


Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Insomnia DVD

Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Insomnia

When you're suffering from insomnia, worrying about not getting enough sleep makes it even worse. Discover how environmental factors could be causing your sleeplessness, and learn essential coping skills, such as stress reduction, meditation and dietary changes.

Each program includes: An informative 30-minute conversation with Mayo Clinic Specialists; a consultation with Mayo Clinic dieticians to teach you what to eat and what to avoid with respect to your condition; an instruction by Rodney Yee which guides you through condition-specific relaxation poses and mediation exercises, designed to help relieve tension and enhance circulation; and a 52-page stress-management workbook.


Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Heart Health DVD

Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Heart Health

Some risk factors for heart disease, like family history, can't be changed, but the power is in your hands to change other factors - such as exercising, eating right and maintaining a healthy weight. Take action right away with strategies for keeping heart disease from getting worse or preventing it altogether.

Each program includes: An informative 30-minute conversation with Mayo Clinic Specialists; a consultation with Mayo Clinic dieticians to teach you what to eat and what to avoid with respect to your condition; an instruction by Rodney Yee which guides you through condition-specific relaxation poses and mediation exercises, designed to help relieve tension and enhance circulation; and a 52-page stress-management workbook.


Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for High Blood Pressure DVD

Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for High Blood Pressure

Hypertension is a "silent killer" - millions of people don't even know they have it, and it inevitably leads to other serious conditions. Adopt a maintenance plan that works for you, including natural ways to lower your blood pressure, such as healthier eating, weight loss and relaxation.

Each program includes: An informative 30-minute conversation with Mayo Clinic Specialists; a consultation with Mayo Clinic dieticians to teach you what to eat and what to avoid with respect to your condition; an instruction by Rodney Yee which guides you through condition-specific relaxation poses and mediation exercises, designed to help relieve tension and enhance circulation; and a 52-page stress-management workbook.

Share



See Also

Check out our Active Living Videos & DVDs.
View all our Instructional Fitness Videos and DVDs