Best Short Yoga Practices

[lorajc]

I just recently bought the Sara Ivanhoe series with the 20 minute DVDs and I love them. I was amazed at how balanced the practices are for being that short and they make me feel great. I like them so much because they're short enough that I can fit one in in my jam packed evenings.

What other short practices have a good variety of poses that I might like, 20-30 minutes long. My other night time favorite has been the Quickie workout on Eoin Finn's Power Yoga for Happiness.

[LovetoFirm]

I am a Rodney Yee fan. I like his AM Yoga, which is about 20 minutes. I also like his Yoga for Athletes. It has 6 different 10 minute practices on it. I can string together as many as I feel like doing.

I also like Sara's Fat Burning Yoga, although it might be a little longer than 30 minutes.

Plus, any of the Yoga Zones that have 2 20 minute practices are good. My favorites are Strengthen and Tone, and Sunrise and Sunset.

[bfit]

I really like the 10 Minute Solution Yoga DVD. It is in five 10 minute segments that you can mix and match.

[KathAL79]

If you like Eoin's PY4H Quickie, you might want to download his Quickie MP3, available on his website.

Rainbeau Mars' Sacred Yoga series are 25-30 minutes each, but I think you already have Pure Tranquility.

Karen Voight's Yoga Sculpt has a 25 min. routine, and her Yoga Focus (now Yoga Power) has a 30 min. and a 22 min. practice. (I highly recommend that 22 min. stretch program on her YF / YP DVD.)

Yoga for Your Moods offers 25-30 min. versions of the main routines. You can find it at Fitness Organica.

You can program Shiva Rea's Yoga Shakti to give you 20-30 min. routines. Check out the Rotations section of this Forum for a fabulous breakdown of all of the chapters.

Body Wisdom Media practices, like Yoga for Inflexible People and Yoga for Every Body, often have 15-30 min. routines.

[Lucky Star]

Wow, this is timely as I've just gathered up my (approx) 20-min yoga routines since that is my husband's (and my) preferred length on busy weekday mornings. So saying, these are what we like to use:
~Baron Baptiste: Live - Core Power (~20 min)
~Baron Baptiste: Live - Unlocking Athletic Power (~25 min)
~Rodney Yee: Power Yoga Complete (has three 20-min programs - Stamina, Flexibility, Strength)
~Yoga Zone: Yoga for Weight Loss (one of the programs is 20 minutes)
~Yoga Zone: Intro to Power Yoga (two 20-min)
~Yoga Zone: Fat Burning (two 20-min)

These are a little longer but worth it if you have more time:
~Yoga Shakti: Basic (30 min, plus the matrix allows for further flexibility)
~Eoin Finn: Power Yoga for Happiness (The Quickie, 30 min)

I have heard that David Swenson's Ashtanga Short Forms is excellent though I haven't tried it. I'm sure there are lots more and I hope you get good recommendations.

[toaster]

In addition to the videos others have mentioned, I also love doing one or more segments from Erich Schiffmann's Beginning Yoga when I'm short on time; Shiva Rea's Yoga Sanctuary CD is great for that too.

[joeb]

The Shiva Rea Yoga Shakti is broken up into chapters and you can design your own workout.

[lorajc]

Thanks for all of the ideas. I have Yoga Shakti, but I don't know how to make a balanced practice. I don't know what to choose. I always tend to do the hip openers, shoulder openers and twists and foward bends over and over cuz those are my favorite poses. LOL!

I don't have an MP3 player for Eion's download's

I'll have to look into some of the above though.

I can't stress how good I think Sara's 20 minute ones are. They have such a good variety of poses in them and are very well done IMO.

[TerryMia]

I love most of the ones already mentioned (use PY4H a lot), but I'd add to the list David Swenson's Short Forms, which has a 15-minute, 30-minute, and 45-minute practice as well as a deep relaxation segment (10 minutes). Also, another one I'm really loving since I got it recently is Ana Forrest's Pleasure of Strength. I've done the short segment (1/2 hour) a couple of times now and absolutely love it...both are just excellent choices, IMHO.

[lorajc]

Amazon says they are out of stock on the David Swenson one. Where else would you buy it?