The Best Pilates & Yoga DVDs

Practicing pilates and yoga can increase muscle strength, improve flexibility and tone your entire body. Regular practice can also reduce stress and enhance your mind's ability to focus and think clearly. Pilates and yoga are readily accessible through DVDs, allowing you to integrate these popular exercises into your home fitness routine.

  1. Beginners

    • For those new to pilates and yoga, Exhale: Core Fusion Pilates Plus, based on the classes taught at New York's exclusive Exhale Spa, features five easily digestible 10-minute workouts of low-impact movement designed to sculpt and tone arms, shoulders and abs. Yoga Workout Series for Beginners with Lilias Folan, based on the PBS series, provides a gentle DVD introduction to basic yoga poses and philosophy.

    Intermediate

    • Suitable for viewers with some familiarity with pilates and yoga, Pilates Core Challenge with Ana Caban offers creative and sometimes challenging movements designed to tone and strengthen the whole body. For intermediate-level yoga practitioners, Perfect in Ten: Yoga 10-minute Workouts with Susan Grant offers four streamlined 10-minute workouts designed to energize, tone and strengthen, improve back strength and de-stress. This DVD also includes a bonus segment in guided deep relaxation.

    Advanced

    • Intensati Intention & Power: A High Energy Workout for Body, Mind & Soul with Patricia Moreno offers a challenging fusion of pilates- and yoga-based movement that also includes a segment of affirmation and chanting for added stress relief. Yoga Burn with famed yoga instructor Rodney Yee brings power yoga to your living room via ab-crunching repetitions and muscle-isolation moves.