Amira's Belly Dance and Yoga for Pregnancy DVD, an Instructional Video for Prenatal Exercise and Workout Review

I viewed this video from the perspective of a Certified Nurse Midwife and teacher of Prenatal Belly Dance, and I must say that I realy like this DVD! It is very well done - excellent production, nice relaxing and reassuring words and body language!
In this video, Amira's obvious comfort with her body, her lovely pregnancy glow and her gently encouraging words offer a role model for women looking for an alternative to feeling fat and clumsy during pregnany. Our world needs more images of beautiful mother goddesses celebrating their abundance!
The yoga stretches and strengthening sections are a really nice addition. I do believe that yoga and belly dance are wonderfully complimentary to each other.
It is a really nice, safe, and do-able program, with very good instruction and a nice pace in which a woman can take her time and follow along.
The DVD is also packed with extras. I loved the 2 beautiful performances by Amira, and the out-takes were fun! While the interviews might be somewhat helpful to the pregnant women using the video, I felt they did not add much to the overall quality of the information offered.
Thanks to Amira for producing this DVD - it is an excellent addition to the world of prenatal exercise videos, and I will happily recommend it to pregnant women!
Cathy
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Amira's Belly Dance and Yoga for Pregnancy DVD, an Instructional Video for Prenatal Exercise and Workout Feature
- This Informative and Fun DVD has a Running Time of 3 hours 28 min!
- Studio Instruction - 1 hour 30 min.
- In Depth Interviews with Professionals 30 Min.
- Interviews with Bellydance Mothers 60 min
- Performances 10 min., Plus, more extras!
Amira's Belly Dance and Yoga for Pregnancy DVD, an Instructional Video for Prenatal Exercise and Workout Overview
Amira brings the ancient arts of Yoga and Belly Dance together in a modern world, with a program that teaches gentle and effective techniques to help every woman on the path to one of life's most profound experiences - motherhood.Amira's Bellydance And Yoga For Pregnancy provides a perfect balance of well thought out routines for an expectant mother to prepare herself for the wonderful and challenging journey ahead. Amira gently leads you through warm-ups, exercise, and cool downs and covers moves that are beneficial, and those that should be avoided during pregnancy. You will learn the benefits of stretching and exercise, learn to relax, to breathe, and to center yourself with confidence and feminine grace, leaving you feeling invigorated and re-energized. Clear explanations are given every step of the way with alternate, modified versions of many moves. Packed with information, in this DVD Amira explains the origins of belly dance and its age-old benefits for women in labor, and encourages you on the road to a healthy lifestyle and a smooth, happy pregnancy.Amira is an internationally renowned belly dance artist whose passion for the arts, combined with the solid years of medical studies spent earning an RN degree have given her a unique perspective into the benefits of Yoga, dance and exercise on a women and her baby's health before, during, and after pregnancy. By applying her experience and training to her own daily life and her own pregnancy, Amira has acquired a deep understanding of women's health issues, become a strong advocate of better living and better pregnancy through better diet, proper exercise, and better lifestyle choices.
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Customer Reviews
Nice and soothing - Kevin Bell - TX
I wasn't looking for a high-energy cardio, and this was a great selection. Wish there was more yoga, but this is a very neat pregnancy workout. I am 23 weeks and this is a great relaxing and baby-soothing workout.
Fabulous resource!! - Alisa A. Mcaffee - Las Vegas, NV
This video is so great. I really enjoyed all of the interviews with the 6 mothers. All of their experiences with belly dance and birth are so different, powerful, and real. The workout is safe and well-rounded. You can tell that Amira put a lot of work into creating this product, and her performances are lovely too.
good for the belly - Georgia Michelle - Encinitas,Ca
As a belly dancer of 10 yrs I did not want to leave dancing out of my pregnancy. Once my regular classes became too late in the eve for me I ordered this DVD. What a relief to continue my dancing and to be so inspired. Amira is well spoken and easy to follow, and even keeps you interested throughout the entire session. I felt it was beginner level, yet completely appropriate. Most importantly I enjoy myself every time I dance with this video, and am thankful for the space it creates for my baby and me.
Celebrate your pregnant self :) - Kaia - USA
I have really been enjoying this DVD! It took me a while to find a belly dancing workout especially for pregnancy; in the meantime I tried out a few beginning belly dance DVDs that were not specifically for pregnancy and found most of them hard to follow. Amira does a very good job of breaking down the moves. The movements in themselves are simple, yet even after following the video twice I felt a huge difference in my hips and muscle tone. That being said, I didn't think that the warm up segment was that great; I didn't feel especially warmed up after doing it, so what I do now is warm up with some of my other DVDs and then skip straight to the strengthening and belly dance sections. The labor exercise segment is also very helpful. However, I was not too impressed with the interviews. There is good information there, but if you already have any experience with (natural)birthing you will probably not hear anything that you didn't already know.
As a side note, I was at a sandwich shop with my 2 year old daughter the other night and she got up and started doing hip circles to the pop music that was playing there :D
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