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Yoga Exercise for Weight Loss

Yoga has always proven to be one of the best methods of reducing the weight and that too in a healthy manner. That is the reason why this exercise of Indian origin has made a mark in all the other parts of the world too.

Without performing strenuous exercises at the gym you can lose weight with simple but effective yoga poses from your home. Here are a few weight loss yoga poses that can bring about a sea change in your physique and health on the positive front.

Boat Pose - Navasana

This is one of the seated poses of yoga that helps not only in weight loss but in building up of stamina and determination too. Sit in the staff pose with hands beside the hips and legs stretched in front. Now bring your knees close to your chest and feet resting on the floor.

Maintain your body as vertical as possible and try lifting your feet and bring the shin parallel to the floor. Now stretch your arms forward and slightly lean back. While doing this slightly stretch your legs forward too. This builds strength in the abdomen and also flattens it.

Extended side angle pose - Utthita Parsvakonasana

This is one of the best yielding types of yoga exercise for weight loss and it also helps in bringing a shape to your body. Stand with your legs one foot of distance apart and hands on your sides.

Now keeping in position, turn your right about 90 degrees and left foot for about 45 degrees. After exhaling, bend your right knee with the thighs parallel to the ground. Your knee must be in line with the first two toes and not more than that. Now inhale. Lift your arms parallel to the floor and extend your arms with shoulder blades wide and palms facing down.

Keep your shoulders away from your ears. Exhale and incline your body towards the right side and place your right hand on the outside of the right foot and stretch your left arm upward and in line with your body. Your neck and spine must be in line with each other and your gaze in front of you. Hold this position for about 30 seconds and slowly release your left arm, right and then your knees.

Half moon pose Ardha Chandrasana

You start from a low lunge position, with your hand resting on your hip. Transfer your weight to your front foot and have your back lifted in a way that is parallel to the floor.

Have your body in a parallel position with arms directly under the shoulder and fingers touching the ground. Now slowly roll your hip, belly and shoulders one by one and lift the other arm straight upward and your face must look upward too. This weight loss yoga pose helps in building focus and also opens up the hip.

Understanding the Different Types of Yoga

We have come across various types of yoga that are linked with the bodily movements and meditation that synchronizes mind, body and the soul with a development phase developing good health.

There are many other types of yoga techniques that is concerned with the factors that are responsible for control our mind and the body with the right terms of karma. Yoga also helps in tuning ones mind towards fine path that takes to heights of success.

There are different types of yoga available with various beneficial issues.

Mantra Yoga

Japa yoga is a method of chanting mantras and slogans that creates a vibration in and around the body thus reflecting the results from within.

Mantra yoga has originated from Vedic science that is linked with Tantra; Mantra yoga is completely the practice of chanting of Vedas written years back at the ancient times. The ultimate salvation or the union with the supreme universal consciousness is the eventual goal of mantra yoga.

Bhakti Yoga

Bhakti Yoga is a form of practicing sheer faith and devotion towards ones interest on God the almighty or the supreme consciousness, the power. Usually Bhakti yoga is experienced along with the worship of God be it Lord Shiva, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Mohammad or Shakti who is considered as the sole power or Guru according to their choice.

The main picture of this yoga is the strong emotional bond with an objective of faith. This flow of emotional energy is effective when directed towards the object of faith thus purifying the inner self at once. Self realization, relief from pain, ego and uncertainty are the resulting factor of this yoga.

Kundalini Yoga

This type of yoga is concerned about the stimulation of the chakras or the psychic centers of the body. Every individual has six main chakras that are evenly distributed from the head down to the end of the spinal cord.

Mind is made off different layers that are responsible for various consciousnesses which are dependent on different chakras. The basic factor about this yoga is that it awakens these chakras with deep concentration. Kundalini yoga for back pain is more effective with the cleansing techniques they follow.

Raja Yoga

This yoga is described in the yoga sutras of sage Patanjali in ancient texts with eight stages which is collectively called the raja yoga. Raja yoga deals with refinement of the human deeds and personality with the practice of yamas (restraint) and niyamas (disciplines).

This results in good physical health and dynamism from the asanas and Pranayama (breathing techniques) that manages emotional conflicts with the development of awareness. Pratyahara (sensory withdrawal), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and Samadhi (absorption towards universal identity) are some of the other yoga that comes under raja yoga.

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There are 11 comments

Kay

I need help trimming my waist since it is wider than my hip. What is the best way to trim my waistline besides ab workout?

May 16, 2012

Adrian bryant

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May 16, 2012

aakriti arora

hey adrian.....i was 46 once bt i dnt noe wat hpnd bt i gained weight again m now 53......ma weight has increased a lot.....plzzzz help me in reducing my weight.....plzzz

April 30, 2012

Adrian bryant

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April 30, 2012

jennifer

i am 185 lbs and i would like to get down to 120lbs is this a good way for me to lose that much weight in 2 months

March 17, 2012

Adrian Bryant

it helps but it's best to use 1 of the plans here

March 17, 2012

Michael

I have read about Yoga being good for weight loss on many sites now I only wonder where is the best place for me to receive instruction as far as teaching my self?

February 19, 2012

dania

Hi Adrian,

I am trying to lose weight and i exercise on the treadmill everyday but i get headaches after i exercise and this stops me from contuining with the exercise and drains my energy. what can i do about this and what kind of low impact exercise i can sustain to play everyday without headaches to lose weight? thank you very much.

February 15, 2012

Adrian Bryant

The headaches could be due to you being out of shape and if that's the case you it may get better as you keep working out but that's my non-doctor opinion but...

You can see a doctor to really get to the bottom of what your problem is

February 15, 2012