Get your body in motion! If circumstances have limited your exercise or diminished your spirit, Carol Dickman’s award-winning gentle yoga, balancing and movement programs may be just what you’re looking for.

Carol Dickman Carol has shown her gentle approach to exercise on a variety of network television programs including the TODAY Show, CNN, Fox News, TNN and The Home Shopping Network. She has also been heard on radio programs nationwide and featured in print media.

“I have known Carol Dickman for over a decade and can vouch for her expertise in the area of fitness. As a yoga devotee myself, I can sincerely say she is a very knowledgeable and insightful instructor in yoga and a wide range of fitness pursuits. Carol is endlessly resourceful and an excellent coach.” – Raquel Welch, Hollywood icon and author of The Raquel Welch Total Beauty and Fitness Program.

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The videos below are available to purchase and download from Amazon allowing you to watch them on your home computer.

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“Carol’s yoga titles won first place in an international multimedia contest…Out of over 100 audio and video submissions of guided imagery, meditation, yoga, breathwork, tai chi, affirmations, music and nature videography, Carol’s work was determined by the panel of four independent holistic health experts to be the primo healing experience of the lot.” – Cindy Stalnaker, Health Journeys

Seated Yoga video - Purchase streaming version from Amazon

Bed Top Movement Upper Body - purchase streaming video from Amazon

Bed Top Movement (lower body) video - purchase streaming from Amazon

Chair Movement video - purchase streaming from Amazon

Testimonials

People facing a wide variety of conditions have given praise for Carol’s videos. Click on the links below to read some powerful testimonials.

My 90-year-old mother has Alzheimer’s Disease as well as many physical challenges, so she can no longer safely participate in any group exercise class. A caring yoga instructor suggested she might benefit from Carol Dickman’s Seated Yoga. Mom and I viewed the DVD together the first time, so I could be sure that she could safely and easily follow along. I was delighted to see that the instructions are very clear and simple, and the pace is easy to follow, even for someone with mental and physical disabilities. And best of all, my mother now enjoys exercising with the DVD! Thank you, Carol, for providing a gentle form of exercise that is so suitable for the elderly and infirmed.

B. JacobsonCaregiverArkansas

“The number of older Americans who fall and suffer serious injuries has soared. Regular exercise classes can help, especially those that include balance drills, such as standing on one foot…” – The New York Times, November, 2014

Carol Dickman’s Bed Top Yoga and Seated Yoga videos are the best I have ever seen. Her approach is a simple, gentle and effective introduction to yoga. All you need is an open mind; you don’t need to be agile, flexible or mystical to experience the benefits.

You can obtain immediate results in the privacy and convenience of your home and at your own time. I would recommend these videos to patients in all age ranges who wish to reduce stress and promote a state of enhanced physical and mental wellbeing.

Emergency room physicians can all testify to the high prevalence of fall related injuries in the older adult. Carol Dickman’s Balance Basics offers the proactive health conscious individual a program designed to reduce this risk.

Jonathan Bernfield, M.D.Geriatric Medicine and Geriatric Psychiatry

GlaxoSmithKline says of the Seated Yoga video: “Simple yoga that cancer patients and caregivers can do in a chair. A gentle exercise program like Seated Yoga can make a big difference in helping to manage your fatigue—which, in turn, can improve your emotional outlook on life—and living with a diagnosis of cancer.”

Oncology Times, March 2002, says of the Bed Top Yoga and Seated Yoga videos: ˝At Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami Beach, patients borrow the videos. They are also used by many family members, who are often as stressed as the patients themselves.”

The Jewish Hospital, Kenwood, Ohio says: “Both programs are being used in every room in the 23-bed bone marrow unit. It is believed that Carol’s yoga will be beneficial.”

The strength of Seated Yoga is its ability to focus the viewer on individual movements and breaths, producing the mindfulness or awareness often emphasized in stress and pain management programs. Dickman’s demonstrations are easy to follow, and her descriptive, tranquil narration contributes to an appreciation of the techniques presented. Her experience is evident as she seems to know exactly the moment to offer a gentle reminder to relax or a tip for releasing tense muscles.

National Fibromyalgia AssociationMassachusetts

For many years my husband Melvin and I danced through life, literally and figuratively. Sometimes to the strains of The Girl from Ipenema or to the beat of Witchcraft. Everyday was not a day in Paradise, but we were fortunate, until our son, Robert died at the age of 44. A mother’s worst nightmare. Life would go on, but it would never be the same. No more dancing for me, just put one foot in front of the other. How would I manage that? I took up my knitting needles and began knitting hats for friends and their kids. I would knit far into the night while watching reruns of sitcoms on the TV that Rob had installed on my computer. I must have made 80 or 90 hats. That took care of the nights.

What about the days? I found Carol Dickman’s Seated Yoga. For 45 minutes everyday, I followed Carol’s DVD. At the end of each session, I felt renewed and centered. I was able to do what I needed to do with a calmness and with some comfort. Since then, I have given the DVD to friends, when I thought that it would be helpful to them.

About a year and a half, after our son died, my husband died. He was 87. Shortly after that I moved from the North Fork of Long Island to Manhattan and discovered that Carol Dickman and I were living in the same building. I contacted her, because I wanted her to know how she had helped me when I had a difficult time in my life. I was so happy that I was able to tell her that in person. I consider Carol a friend, who helped me, when I needed help.

Paula ShengoldGreenport, New York

Carol helped launch Mt. Sinai Hospital’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit in New York City, teaching Seated Yoga to its patients.

Carol is certified in Yoga of the Heart, Adapting Yoga for Heart Disease, Cancer and Other Life Threatening Diseases.

Yoga Journal Magazine says Carol’s Bed Top Yoga has “a cult following of former insomniacs.”

Recommended as resources by the National Amputee Coalition. Both Bed Top Yoga and Seated Yoga videos were recommended in The National Limb Loss Information Center’s March/April 2002 issue of “In Motion Magazine” in an article entitled Yoga for Everyone: “Video lessons make ancient practice available to those with disabilities.”

How do you tell someone that you would not be able to walk without her programs? I’m working hard and if were not for Carol’s DVDs, I would be in serious trouble. Each morning I use Bed Top Yoga while still in bed and work the whole tape. Then to the next plateau, I work out with Seated Yoga. Ta-da, now I am on my feet, in a hot shower, finishing with a cold shower. It takes close to four hours to be off and running, but I do not want to be stuck in a wheel chair…or worse. Keep moving has become my mantra. Thanks for all of your help.

Ann RuckertMusicianNew York City

Quest, the magazine of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, in a June – July 2002 article titled “The Ins and Outs of Exercise” said: “Yes, You Can” and recommends Bed Top Yoga and Seated Yoga videos as a resource.

My mother, Rosemary, who just turned 88 years old, has suffered from spinal stenosis for several years. She had always been very active and walking more than a mile even in her early 80’s. However in the last few years she has only been able to walk a couple of blocks since she is in constant pain. Consequently, she had started to experience anxiety and depression as her movements became more limited. A few years ago I gave my mother your Chair Yoga Video. She was never into exercise classes but had gone with me once or twice in the last fifteen years to a yoga class.

I was so pleased when she told me that she loved your video because it stretched every part of her body from her toes to neck/head and she had a full work out sitting in a chair. Equally important, she felt completely relaxed after doing the yoga. What made me realize that she really loved the video is when she told me she does chair yoga three to four times a week! When I spoke to her Sunday she was very enthusiastic and very thankful for your video, and I thank you for giving my mother a new lease on life!

Margot M.New York

Originally created for the blind and visually impaired, Bed Top Yoga and Seated Yoga are used today for their concise audio instructions in the DVD format. For over a decade, the programs have helped this special population receive the benefits of yoga. Balance Basics And Beyond has a specially scripted class for the blind and visually impaired.

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