Yoga Richard Hittleman

[@heatherrussell4439]

I used to run home from school to catch his yoga class, I was 15 and am still practicing yoga today, a wonderful program.

[@sarajobling9230]

Lynn Marshall was the first person I ever saw doing yoga. I was fascinated. I've been teaching yoga for 34 years so something struck a chord.

[@leighclark5257]

I watched "Yoga for Health" in black-and-white in the 1950s. During summers off from elementary school I watched the show and did the exercises with the neighbor lady next door, a family friend. No one else in either of our families had any interest in yoga. But we were loyal Richard Hittleman fans. What a pleasure it is to hear Richard's lucid, soothing voice again and to be calmed by him as I was all those years ago.

[@insomanywords]

I bought his book Yoga in 28 days in the 80s and it really changed my life. Thank you Richard!

[@АнатолийРадоман-ф7ф]

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[@hylen26]

It's a very good book.

[@YOGAMUDRAVIDEOS]

I bought his book in 1970 and have been doing yoga ever since. I thank Richard Hittelman for his detail and emphasis to form and coordination of movement with breath in performing the postures. I don't know what possessed me to pick up that book way back then; most people including myself had never heard of yoga, but it changed my life for the better. I thank him for the good health and flexibility I enjoy today.

[@marycontrary7272]

I used to watch this on PBS in LA in the 1970's. I purchased it on VHS tapes quite awhile back but the quality was very poor and they broke rather quickly. If only PBS would have them refurbished and put on sale. I would buy them again. Just hearing the music from the opening and ending makes me breath easier along with his pleasant voice. RIP Richard Hittleman and thank you!

[@katecone7416]

After taking my first yoga class at Colby College in 1973, my roommate gave me Hittlemans book. I'm still doing yoga 50 years later

[@zuvarian]

my first and best teacher on a black & white TV ... thanks Richard

[@meljames52]

Need more of Richard Hittleman… love his yoga instruction. I learned from them in the 70s. Thank you

[@josephpetrino1741]

He changed my life significantly at least twice. I foolishly let life distract me and it was a big mistake. Yoga is a gift to mankind.

[@spanishgypsy1618]

OMG!! That brought back memories from about 1971 watching this on tv with my mum!!!! Thanks for showing!!

[@BULLYDNB]

just bought the vinyl for the soundtrack from this show! can't wait to play it

[@deejaygarimi5433]

I had this book, " 28 day Exercise Plan", since I was a kid in the late 70s but lost it about 6 years ago. It was the simplest , low impact fitness & health regime I have ever used. I want another copy. It was best way to combat 'baby fat" aka postpartum gain. It was a plan I could adjust for injuries. It helped me create a healthier me

[@woolkhan8017]

Still want the book?

[@zaheerzulfiqar1885]

Lahore. In1989, when I first saw a yoga practice program with a bullared picture and disturbing audio on Indian TV channel DD1, and it made me madly searching for a guide to teach me and let me know how a human body can be stretched in a various angles, but in vain, incidentally I saw a book titled 'Yoga for Physical Fitness' by Richard Hittleman, there I found a great teacher and mentor who have legislated the yoga exercises instructions with pictures, and at the end a table for daily exercises, my dreams came true, and now finding this page on internet is joy for me which I instantly subscribed.

[@apilgrimsprogress7688]

This is a joy to find, I still have my 'Introduction To Yoga' by RH. I still meditate every day. I have subscribed to your channel.

[@compassionplease7380]

Before the Ashtanga boom.......before Yoga Journal........before Lilias........there was RICHARD HITTLEMAN!! And he’s still the best IMO! Check out his Yoga: The Eight Steps To Health and Peace, one of the best books ever written on the subject.

[@susanfreeman9769]

wow I loved his show on channel 8 @ 6 pm in ATL,practiced yoga for a couple years in my early 20s,the body never forgets,it quickly remembers when you go back to it.cells have memories

[@maxfirefantasyreport]

This guy saved my dads' back when no dr could help him.

[@pennythompson8835]

His was awesome I used to watch him when I was 13 years old very good yoga exercise I learn how to breathe correctly meditation and relaxation

[@richardlaversuch2901]

Inspirational.

[@elmoblatch9787]

I watched this endlessly for prurient reasons.

[@maureenedonovan9935]

Is any of his television program available on CD? I used to follow and practice yoga every day when I was in my 20s in the early 70s. I always felt sooooo good.

[@woolkhan8017]

Cd available

[@renobronson9033]

I get stabbing pain in my lower lumbar area when I do the Knee and Thigh Stretch. I wish I could find someone to teach me how to correctly do all the exercises out of the 28 day yoga plan book.

[@skittleinc9586]

Where can I purchase these DVD's?

[@cc34945]

I use his very worn book for my nighttime yoga flow. For more than 30 years.

[@YOGAMUDRAVIDEOS]

me too!

[@miasbj]

Me too

[@simoneblair6071]

I did this every day as a teen and became a vegetarian comments were made on my posture I had never felt healthier. Now I am older I have not done it in ten years. I have had back surgery my paid doc says I am the most flexible patient he has. I just started doing it every day again and I even quit smoking after just three weeks! If you can afford to buy these highly recommend it, but only if you are going to do it daily!

[@chrischibnall593]

I want to hear the music again! Please show the beginning and end credits!

[@simoneblair6071]

Chris your an idiot. I have a friend who plays yoga music in the studio his music is awesome buy it. If you are more interested in the music here I am going to guess your overweight? This is for everyone even people who are overweight. : ) Best wishes

[@chrischibnall593]

Dear Simone, to answer your points one by one: "Chris your an idiot."... I think you meant "you're"... sometimes I think I am, but then I remember I have a University degree... "I have a friend who plays yoga music in the studio his music is awesome buy it" I do not doubt your friends' talent, but here I am referring specifically to the theme music to Richard Hittleman's series that played at the beginning and end.... I remember it from when the series was broadcast some 46 years ago.... I'd love to hear it again. As to your friends' music? Well, there's lots of such stuff to choose from. "If you are more interested in the music here I am going to guess your overweight?" this is an interesting line of reasoning... it also happens to be wrong. I am actually very slim, especially for my age. Richard Hittleman's series remains one of the more comprehensive courses in Hatha Yoga even to this day, so I'm tempted to buy it on DVD, though I am put off by the price. I have in my time practised Kundalini and Tibetan Yantra yoga, and am currently combining Yoga with Qui Gong. The Hittleman series has much to commend it, including its nostalgia value. Hittleman was not just concerned with the physical advantages of Yoga, but introduced his viewers to Yogic philosophy, including such values as humility and compassion, which you might look towards cultivating...

[@1too3fore]

Dear Chris, Simone only said "a friend" so it would be * friend's * NOT * friends' *... so much for your so-called university degree. By focusing on the superficial in your critique, you totally violate the principles that Hittleman put forward in his book.

[@Ramonblanco]

What a diseagreable person that Simone is. I wonder how a such an agressive person does not practice more yoga to change her mood. I remember well Mr Hitlleman, he was a fantastic yoga teacher back in the 80´s.

[@michaelmathis7359]

I know right? That's what I was looking for. I wanted to hear the music beginning and end credits. It was something about the music that captured me mentally.

[@nealsausen4651]

Does anybody have an update on the model Cheryl Fischer?!

[@pod831]

Richard Hittleman, famed yoga guru and spiritual leader, instructor of "alternate nostril breathing," used to smoke cigars. He'd snuff them out when students came around. When he got angry, he gave the silent treatment. Sometimes he busted out in a tantrum. He insulted people. Finally, he locked horns with the IRS in a futile, obsessive struggle and lost, and didn't live to tell about it. According to friends, Richard's illness was an embarrassment to him, and hidden even from them. Apparently, Hittleman left his family nothing. Except his ex-wife, to whom he bequeathed an impossible burden.

[@nealsausen4651]

Whatever happened to that gorgeous "yoga model" of his, Cheryl Fischer?!

[@potatoecouch]

Odd: NO SOUND. And I just opened this posting, after viewing another one titled: "Richard Hittleman's Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan". THAT post only has a repetitive sound track, and ONE continuous photo of the cover of the book which I have a copy of. I must find my book again. No way to practice these nice lessons on either of the 2 postings.

[@woolkhan8017]

Anyone wants the cd’s?

[@ktkee7161]

Lynn looks different there. She died young.

[@greg1030]

Really? Lynn always looked the same to me on TV and in the DVD set; such incredibly gorgeous hair! Strange how they both died quite young. Richard died of prostate cancer. Cancer took the life of Ramana Maharshi at 70, whose teachings were fundamental to Richard's philosophy. It leads one to suspect some advanced students feel their system will protect them against aggressive physical disorders. Cancer is like hair loss; it can be triggered by many things and requires bodily awareness and action to detect and fight it off. However, in the case of Maharishi he didn't much care when the end came since he felt that his earlier realized knowledge of Self made life and death meaningless.

[@MrRatherino]

looks like Paladin...and as good ...

[@MrRatherino]

godfather of American yoga...intentionally? overlooked....