How to Use Yoga for Weight Loss & Detox

Gaining excessive weight has become more of a typical result in our present age of unstructured lifestyles along with readily available "high-calorie" fast food.  

Gone were the days where many people enjoy doing active outdoor activities regularly.

Today we would rather sit for long hours in front of the TV, laptop or our handphones with a pile of food on our plates.

These inappropriate food habits, stress, and lack of exercise are all frequent contributors to the extra packs of fat around your body. 

Changing your habits to a healthy one can do a lot of good for your physical, mental, and emotional health.

Recently people have found solutions to their weight problem, and some have also made their way of losing weight using Yoga.

Yet it is difficult to change habits of disciplining the body. Mainly if it entails having a proper diet of vegetarian foods and complicated Yoga movements contributing to increased metabolism and fat burning.

However, Yoga can also be a lifestyle choice, as it is a form of losing weight through gradual processes.

Thus you can without experiencing sudden weight loss syndromes that such as sagging skin and other problems such as bounce backs.

Using Yoga practice for weight loss include several techniques.

In particular, the yoga asanas (postures) through Ashtanga Yoga, can be applied for specific parts of our body to the one we wish to improve on.

Here are some Yoga Postures that help with your weight loss journey.

Yoga asanas for working up your abdomen and core muscles

• The child pose which is the Wind releasing pose  
• Cobra pose (abdominal lift and stretch), 
• Supine Spinal Twist (Supta Matsyendrasana, improves spinal mobility and aids digestion)
• Seal pose (restores natural curvature in the lumbar spine)
• Boat pose (Navasana, strengthens the abdominal muscles). 

Yoga asanas for strengthening and toning legs and arms

• The upward dog (strengthens wrist, arm and shoulders while stretching the chest and spine). 
• A Downward dog pose (strengthens quadriceps and ankles while stretching hips, hamstrings and calves), 
• Tree pose (Strengthen ankles and calves while stretching thighs, groins torso and shoulders), 
• Swinging lotus pose (Swinging Padmasana or swinging while seated), 
• Hero pose (Virasana, strengthens foot arches and stretches the hips, knees, ankles and feet), 
• Bridge pose (Setu Bandha Sarvangasana, improves digestions, strengthening the back body), 
• Squat and rise pose (Utthanasana, helps build strength on lower back and legs)
• Celibacy pose (Brahmacharysana, build extreme upper body strength to lift the body off the ground while sitting with both legs forward).

Yoga asanas for tightening the chest

• The boat pose (lying on back)
• Triangle pose (Trikonasana, strengths obliques and back, hero pose (strengthens overall upper body)
• Lumbar wheel pose (backbend, stretches chest muscles), 
• An upward and downward dog poses.

Yoga asanas for toning hips and thighs

• Triangle Pose (Trikonasana)
• Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar)
• Butterfly Pose (Baddha Konasana, improves flexibility in our hip and groin regions)
• Celibacy pose (Strengthens the hips as we lift off with our legs stretches forward.

Embarking on a Weight loss regime with Yoga has been found as an ideal way of losing weight by many.

It consistently tones your body, unlike many other weight loss programs that claim to cut off inches of from your waistline, thus leading to serious side effects.  

Whereas using Yoga for your weight loss journey can be performed safely and at a steady pace.

66 Days to Form Any Habit

Did you know that we could quickly form the habit of practice if we stay on with it for 66 days?

It was a published study from the book called "Making Habits, Breaking Habits" by a psychologist Jeremy Dean.

This may sound difficult or too tedious.

But imagine the cost of not being able to settle onto a healthy lifestyle habit, especially one with a collective conscious living element.

Get Started on Your 66 Day Yoga Journey while you practice transforming your mind and body as you get in your best shape.