Lose Your Weight With Yoga
June 24, 2008
Doing yoga regularly can make you feel better about your body as you become stronger and more flexible, tone your muscles, reduce stress, and improve your mental and physical well-being. Yoga also helps you to lose weight.
The best approach is to lose weight gradually and for good. Yoga offers a good solution to this problem. Yoga tones the body in a uniformed manner, unlike any “weight loss program” which claims to decrease your butts by this much inches and waist by this much, leading to side effects. Yoga can be practiced at any age to keep the body supple.
Some of the affective yoga tips are mentioned below which will help you to lose weight.
• Ashtanga: Ashtanga yoga is a very vigorous style of practice with a few distinct advantages for those who want to lose weight. Ashtanga practitioners are among the most dedicated of yogis, and beginners are often encouraged to sign up for a series of classes, which will help with motivation. Another advantage is that Ashtanga Yoga is ideal for the home practitioners. Once you learn the poses you can try it even at your home.
• Sun Salute: It is very beneficial in managing weight. Every day 24 sun salutations with a speed of 4 rounds in 1 minute give great benefits of Yoga Asana and exercise as well. If 7 asana of Sun salutation is practiced in a sequence it will tones almost all of the muscles and also internal organs are stretched increasing blood & oxygen supply to these parts. Regular practice of sun salutation with breathing gives good exercise to the lungs. Mantras help to relax the mind.
• Pranayama: Pranayama is a very important weight losing technique in yoga which controls and extension of pran or life force. It helps in management of energy. The Pranayama can be classified in 2 types in terms of physiology, Hypo ventilation and hyper ventilation or relaxing pranayama. Kapalbhati, Bhasrika and Fast breathing can be classified under Hyper ventilation which increases Oxygen and reduces carbon dioxide and Deep breathing, Bhramari, Shitali, Sitkari can be classified as Hypo ventilation in which oxygen level remains mostly same but the speed of respiration is lower, heart rate lower. Regular practice of Pranayama brings balance in the system in terms of Physical and Mental functions.
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