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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Exercise Library

This site, From The American Council on Exercise, contains articles and illustrated instructions for a variety of workouts for agility and balance, and for different parts of the body. The site also provides fitness Q&As, healthy recipes, a health club finder, and more.

Click this link to check out the Exercise Library.

Independent Living Aids Offers Aerobic Exercise Tape

Geared for the visually-impaired, side A of this well-prepared cassette describes each exercise from warm up, through aerobics and cool down. Practice till you've mastered them all; then listen to side B which repeats the instructions with rhythmic musical background. Item #TEX1

In Flight Yoga

ILA has taken all of the excuses away. These instructional tapes teach yoga on your bed or while seated and are described for the visually impaired. May you be healthy and peaceful. Item #TYO2

independent living aids, inc.
P. O. Box 9022
Hicksville, NY 11802-9022
Toll Free: 800-537-2118
Fax: 516-937-3906
Email: can-do@independentliving.com

Yoga DVDs For the Disabled

Though images of yoga often reflect sacred space (an ashram or specialized studio), the ancient discipline that reorients bodily energy can be done almost anywhere by persons with a wide range of physical challenges.

For twelve years, Carol Dickman, and her Yoga Enterprises, has developed instructional audio, video, and DVD programs aimed at those who wish to live healthier lives despite impaired mobility. Her series includes Bed Top Yoga and Seated Yoga (1997), 33 and 43-minute programs that guide students through a series of breathing exercises, simple stretches, and rudimentary yoga postures, followed by relaxation exercises. Bed Top Yoga is done lying down on the back and Seated Yoga is done in a chair or on the edge of the bed.

In this interview, certified Kripalu and Bikram yoga instructor Carol Dickman talks about how she developed her interactive yoga series for persons with disabilities.

Click this link to read more about Carol Dickman and her DVDs on yoga.

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