Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age For Seniors: Safe and Easy Way to Stretch and Strengthen, Add Flexibility, Increase Energy
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Review Lilias is one of the Great Pioneers of Yoga…she made it useful and
easily understood for everyone. –Rodney Yee Yoga is not just for the young
and hip, soft-spoken, down-to-earth veteran yoga instructor Lilias Folan is
the perfect person to introduce this exercise routine…presented in a manner
that s inviting rather than intimidating. –Billboard Lilias is a major
influence in the field of health and exercise –Richard Simmons Yoga is not
just for the young and hip, soft-spoken, down-to-earth veteran yoga instructor
Lilias Folan is the perfect person to introduce this exercise
routine…presented in a manner that s inviting rather than intimidating.
–Billboard Lilias is a major influence in the field of health and exercise
–Richard Simmons Yoga is not just for the young and hip, soft-spoken, down-
to-earth veteran yoga instructor Lilias Folan is the perfect person to
introduce this exercise routine…presented in a manner that s inviting rather
than intimidating. –Billboard Lilias is a major influence in the field of
health and exercise –Richard Simmons About the Actor Lilias attended
Bennington College where she studied painting and drawing. She went on to
study Italian while in Rome, Italy. She started her yoga practices in 1964,
studying with various American teachers on the east and west coasts and with
Swami Vishnu-Devananda in New York City and Canada. In 1973, Lilias went to
India where she studied Vedanta philosophy and meditation under the tutelage
of Swami Chidananda of the Divine Life Society, Rishikesh, India. In 1975, she
continued hatha yoga studies with Bernard Rishi of Paris, France, studying the
B.K.S. Iyengar method of Hatha yoga. The TV series, Lilias, Yoga and You,
began in Cincinnati on WCET-TV in 1970, and was nationally distributed
beginning in 1974 on PBS. During its run, which lasted until 1979, the program
was aired on more than 200 stations nationwide with an estimated regular
audience of more than 10 million viewers. Lilias was named one of the Four
most influential figures in American Yoga over the past 100 years by the Yoga
Journal. She was also recently featured in Yoga International In Loving
Gratitude as one of the four women who made yoga what it is today. The PBS
television series Lilias Yoga and You and Lilias! was broadcast in every major
market for 20 years reaching millions of new Yoga students. Lilias has
appeared on The Today Show, The Mike Douglas Show, Phil Donahue, Richard
Simmons as well as many other television broadcasts. Lilias was featured in
Fit Yoga Magazine, Yoga + Joyful Living Magazine in 2009 and Yoga Journal
Magazine in 2010. She continues to contribute to a variety of Yoga and
Wellness publications. She also appeared in a brief but memorable moments in
Peter Sellers movie, “Being There”. Lilias audience includes housewives,
athletes, executives, seniors, Olympians, artists, members of Congress and a
former President of the US. Lilias recently took part in the prestigious New
York Times Speaker Series. She continues to teach throughout the US and abroad
inspiring students and teachers throughout the USA, Canada and Europe with the
benefits of yoga body, mind and spirit. Lilias has been featured in Time
Magazine, which called her the Julia Child of Yoga, People Magazine, McCall s,
Vogue, Weight Watchers, Yoga Journal, American Express Newsletter, and the
Chicago Tribune TV Magazine. She has been the subject of numerous feature
articles in other newspapers nationwide. With all of this, Lilias cheerfully
runs an active home and family life, enjoying canoeing, backpacking with her
sons Michael and Matthew, 5 grandchildren, her husband of 50 years Bob, and
golden retriever Patrick.
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Product Details:
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 6 x 1 inches; 0.16 Ounces
- Item model number : B00MB6OI6S
- Director : Lilias Folan
- Media Format : NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 10 minutes
- Release date : August 19, 2014
- Actors : Lilias Folan
- Studio : Total-Content LLC