Yoga can help you lose weight the healthy way.

For a person to lose weight the healthy way, both diet and exercise, as well as getting enough rest, staying hydrated, and reducing stress, must be considered. Yoga for weight loss can not only shed unwanted pounds, but also help with balance, strength, flexibility, focus and more.

Yoga is a practice of the mind and body, it is important to work from the inside first, to get results on the outside. In Yoga, one builds the “practice” of being aware, open and mindful. Mindfulness is the ability to observe what is happening internally. It can shape and change the communication and relationship between the mind and body. It also creates awareness that there is a relationship between the two. Eventually creating awareness to the relationship of food and eating.

Your mind becomes open to the idea of change. If you are thinking of changing your lifestyle beginning with a yoga practice. A good place to also begin the transformation and change is the way you think of food. Pay attention to what you put into your body, which is your temple, your vessel. Welcoming new eating patterns, eating a clean green diet combined with the spiritual connection of yoga can help you transition into those changes.

A 150-pound person will burn an average of 150 calories of doing 1 hours of regular yoga. In a Hot class generally done in a room approx 98-105 degrees you can burn up to 500 calories in one hour. I suggest a more physically challenging style such as a Vinyasa Flow class where there is more movement, your heart rate goes up increasing aerobic activity, and your body is challenged with muscle building movement.

Within the body, range of motion and flexibility increases, making the stabilizer muscles stronger. This can correct problems with posture that may accompany weight gain can help someone lose weight the healthy way.

Compression and elongation of the internal organs such as the diaphragm,can improve digestion and metabolism.
Yoga poses help lengthen, tone and strengthen muscles,
Physical types of yoga such as Vinyasa flow, Power yoga and ashtanga can increase the heart rate, providing a cardiovascular workout.

Within the body,range of motion and flexibility increases, making the stabilizer muscles stronger. This can correct problems with posture that may accompany weight gain. You can take the 90 Day Health Challenge if you are serious about getting healthy. It is a great program with nutrition products I use on a regualr basis every day.

Namaste,

Denise Pala