Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 4.96 rating based on 70 reviews
By Barb1 | Tuesday, October 21, 2025
This was a challenge for me but I was able to follow
By theresaphd | Wednesday, April 2, 2025
By Nel | Thursday, January 23, 2025
I really loved this class, i especially enjoyed the guided physical adjustment for crescent pose. I feel energized and strong, grateful for the guidance
By LuluRose | Thursday, December 12, 2024
Really enjoyed this class. Packed a lot into a short amount of time but didn’t feel rushed. Now I need to figure out why I always get cramp in my hamstring when I reach around to grab my other foot in lunge ??
By Emma | Sunday, November 17, 2024
This was a challenge for me but poses were gently guided and it felt amazing to get through it all
By Ron | Tuesday, November 12, 2024
This practice really opened my shoulders up. Thank you!
By Rosemary | Tuesday, November 12, 2024
A really thoughtful class more difficult than I thought because I am recovering from a horrid stomach bug but I was grateful to be doing it with you Elise and grateful for your approach.
By JAQ | Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Great instructions for beginners
By Jeanne | Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Enjoyable practice.
By enshinkan | Monday, November 11, 2024
Where does the download save to?
By tigcm217 | Monday, November 11, 2024
Great class to start the challenge. Have been away from doing yoga regularly and ot felt good to get back on the mat!
By islandfox | Monday, November 11, 2024
Thank you Elise! My hips are feeling the gratitude!
By JackieO | Monday, November 11, 2024
loved the sequence and felt the openings in hips, arms, back
By Kristen | Monday, November 11, 2024
Perfect recovery after a difficult week of exercise!
By Jenny | Monday, November 11, 2024
Excellent! Great gentle stretches for me as I recover from a whiplash injury!
By Fern | Monday, November 11, 2024
great
By Lauren | Monday, November 11, 2024
Twas a stressful day. This class was perfect! Feeling much more together. Thank you!
By Pecas | Monday, November 11, 2024
Lovely class. Done as part of the grounded and gratitude challenge.
By Marysela | Monday, November 11, 2024
I am thankful for you Elise. Great way to start the challenge and to come back to my practice.
By TJ | Monday, November 11, 2024
Open Your Heart to Gratitude was a lovely blend of calm and challenge. (That ardha chandrasana, though! Whew!) I left feeling a noticeable decrease in upper back tension and a renewed sense of gratitude. Thank you, Elise!
By JaniceD | Monday, November 11, 2024
I found muscles I never knew I had...Loved it.
By Ninjagirl61 | Monday, November 11, 2024
Great class for opening up the upper back and shoulders
By AFT | Monday, November 11, 2024
Just flew across the US, great for long travel days. Also perfect start to the gratitude challenge
By Joinaz | Monday, November 11, 2024
Have done this class before and had in favorites, but don t think I ever did a public review. This was part of the 2wk Grounding and Gratitude Challenge. Excellent class, great heart openers, had to modify a few things because of a bad shoulder but overall feel great.
By Kiki | Friday, March 22, 2024
I don t like back bend, but this soft gentle practice make it accessible for me. Feeling gratitude or finding gratitude is also great to start my day. This class is gentle, soft, and slow, perfect for where I am now. Thank you.
By rosannec7 | Tuesday, February 20, 2024
One of my absolute favourites.
By Lin | Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Another wonderful class with Elise. She is so skilled at guiding us to fine tune each pose while reminding us of the intentions we set. Thank you!
By Nomad Vhef Wandering Restaurant | Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Gentle
By Sheri | Sunday, January 9, 2022
I completed this class yesterday with the new year challenge, and it was more difficult than I expected!
The sequencing is nice, the timing appropriate and the focus on gratitude is a treasure.
By Christine Lajewski | Saturday, January 8, 2022
Elise is one of my favorite teachers. This class is a great way to start the day.
By gladys | Friday, January 7, 2022
Energizing...especially for the shoulders that don t get much love.
By Jude | Friday, January 7, 2022
So good to work on upper body...my shoulders have been had surgery, so stretching w/o weight bearing on shoulders is helpful.
By Kat | Friday, January 7, 2022
Just enough, and not too much. A good practice when you want to make sure you keep your body and mind open and grateful.
By Deirdre | Friday, January 7, 2022
Wonderful class Elise. I love the focus on gratitude and on the blessings that are all around us. Thank you for another excellent claw!
By Geri | Friday, January 7, 2022
Loved this class. The shoulder work with strap was a super addition to the flow. Really appreciated the cuing about how to open up the hips for maximum effect in poses. Thank you.
By Christina | Thursday, September 30, 2021
Wow, I don t often do hatha flows (I like to flow and sweat, typically) but this practice was wonderful. I didn t have a strap (I m flowing in the basement to keep a very naughty kitten company), so I just pretended I had one for the shoulder work and it still felt great. LOVED the eagle arm stretch (it felt so good) and the three backbends at the end of class. Thanks to those, I found my second wind for the afternoon.
Many thanks for a gentle and beautiful practice.
By Yogageek | Thursday, July 8, 2021
Excellent class! Gratitude abounds :)
By Syls Mom | Sunday, May 16, 2021
How did I miss this class? I feel wonderful, a little sweaty, challenged but so good! Thank you, Elise! Love your classes!
By Despina | Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Yet another brilliant class by Elise!
By inkar | Sunday, May 3, 2020
Great practice with Elise absolutely loved it.
Thank you
Elvira Reichmuth
Namaste
By Nancy | Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Great class! My back appreciates the release!
By auroraroha | Tuesday, April 14, 2020
I loved the way that gently throughout the class I felt tension ease off, and muscles relax that I hadn t realised were so tense.
Thank you
By Lois Anne | Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Another great class Elise. The class challenged me in some of the poses that I was not expecting to be so challenged, some of my challenges are due to I hate to say it but gently aging body with bulging lumbar discs and spinal stenosis but heck still going and active.I definitely will check out your class for sensitive wrists. Thank you again
By Lois Anne | Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Another great class Elise. The class challenged me in some of the poses that I was not expecting to be so challenged, some of my challenges are due to I hate to say it but gently aging body with bulging lumbar discs and spinal stenosis but heck still going and active.I definitely will check out your class for sensitive wrists. Thank you again
By XtineEley | Monday, April 13, 2020
This was a much needed class. I did a chest and tricep workout earlier in the day, so this really loosened everything up. Also, I kept thinking of things for which I was grateful during the final bridge sequence. Thanks for all the great reminders, Elise!
By edennis | Monday, April 13, 2020
After a long & snowy Monday here in Colorado, I almost talked myself out of tonights class. However, I reminded myself why I practice and how GREAT I feel afterwards. I am so grateful I did this fun class today, really reminded me what all I am grateful for and why I practice. Namaste :)
By Deirdre | Monday, April 13, 2020
Thank you Elise. I really enjoyed your class, Nice and relaxing and also some challenges. I especially liked the focus on gratitude, something we can all work on.
By ssd517 | Monday, April 13, 2020
A great relaxing class for back and shoulders.
By Meghanmyersyeah | Monday, April 13, 2020
This class felt amazing!
By Emily Straw | Monday, April 13, 2020
Back bends are not my favourite but with Elise s gentle cues & direction my shyness for backbends has diminished a fair bit. Really enjoyed finding my gratitude for all that is around me at a very strange time. Thankyou, namaste
By Syls Mom | Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Thank you, Elise! I m feeling grateful today as my brother maybe getting his lung transplant. So grateful to the donor and his family. I am hopeful and this practice this morning was perfect!
By Rupal | Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Nice sustained stretches perfect for waking up the body. I love how Elise focuses so much on body awareness in different postures. Great for really spending time opening various parts of the body.
By Rupal | Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Nice sustained stretches perfect for waking up the body. I love how Elise focuses so much on body awareness in different postures. Great for really spending time opening various parts of the body.
By Ms Wildstar | Thursday, August 9, 2018
This was a great class that managed to get a lot in in 30 minutes while not at all feeling rushed. Well paced and well thought out. I will definitely be doing this one again when I don t have time to do a longer class!
By Jill | Monday, January 29, 2018
Exactly what I needed this morning. Moved and challenged my body, and took me away from a place of stress and brought me back to my breath and gratitude. Thanks Elise!
By Emma | Thursday, June 1, 2017
Loved this class!
By Heather | Saturday, May 20, 2017
I am grateful for Elise this morning and many mornings. She is just right for me. Instructions are clear, she isn t preachy like too many are, yet still has a message, gently conveyed. I love all of her classes. This is my only review in 18 months of biweekly yogadownloads. Enough said.
By dawn | Monday, August 22, 2016
Thanks Elise! This class is clear and easy to follow. I found it to be both challenging and restorative at the same time. I tend to feel a lot of stickiness in my shoulders, upper back, and shoulder blades. These areas feel open and rested after this class!
By Soudie | Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Thank you for this class. I really loved it, and the length was perfect. I was slowly morphing into my mom and grandmother with their hunchy shoulders. Surprisingly, after doing this class just once (in a addition to having done a few consecutive days of another gentle yoga class), I feel as though my shoulders have nearly reset into proper alignment; I barely see/feel the rounded forward curve from years of slouchy sitting!
I ve practiced yoga here-and-there for over 15 years, but I never developed a consistent practice. I m finally listening to my body s yearning to stretch and breeeeath, and I m pleased to now crave it when I wake up in the morning. I ve decided to keep things simple (so as not to overwhelm myself and eventually give up on a yoga practice), so I m starting, specifically, with your videos -- I find your instruction to be clear, gentle, smart, and creative. (And, I must add, I don t find you irritating in any way, LOL. I can t say the same for all instructors!) I look forward to trying out your chakra series.
P.S. - This is my very first review on Yoga Download (after having been a subscriber for about eight months and previewing a bunch of classes). Please take it as an indicator of how impressed I am by this class and your instruction in general. Thank you, Elise :)
By David | Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Elice is awesome, as always, but this video is damaged, as it stopped three times with a error message.
By Jess | Sunday, March 20, 2016
Another winner, thank you! If there was an Elise-only channel, I would subscribe.
By Pedraz | Thursday, March 10, 2016
What am I grateful for? I am grateful for (to) Elise Fabricant : ) This is a deeply satisfying class. Thank you Ms Fabricant!
By donnahp | Saturday, February 13, 2016
I love Elises s classes. This one in particular flowed nicely, opening up many parts of the body, while Elise added some beautiful words about gratitude and appreciation. I will retake this class often..
By Jessica | Thursday, February 4, 2016
By abjammin | Thursday, January 7, 2016
Perfect. Had a little time before dinner and after the holidays. Get some of the cranky tight muscles moving and flexible again. Good pace for someone getting back into yoga. Thanks,
By CeliaRose | Sunday, December 20, 2015
This class was just wonderful, I always know when I pick a class by Else that it will be enjoyable, with just the right amount of challenge. It really did make me feel grateful and helped to get rid of the cobwebs from an early Christmas celebration! Thank you for another lovely class.
By glitterbrained | Sunday, November 29, 2015
What a beautiful class! I love Elise s technique and guidance, and her instruction in this session reminded me of all I am grateful for.
By AllyT | Saturday, November 28, 2015
Wonderful practice to start the day! Very gentle and opening with messages of gratitude sprinkled throughout!
By Marine | Thursday, November 26, 2015
By lyssum | Tuesday, November 24, 2015
gentle, calming sequence with great shoulder stretching in preparation for backbends
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