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Confused? Lost? Doubtful? Well, if your brain cells are throwing questions regarding yoga for weight loss then you have landed in the right place.
REVELATION: Forget “it might” as yoga “surely can” help you lose weight. It is a weight loss tool which does not only challenges your body but also your mind.
Who . . . I question who does not like to hit one stone from two arrows? Every does right.
So, together with shedding weight through yoga, you can make your mind strong and become more self aware. Reading for a change in lifestyle? As with yoga, you are not only losing weight but keeping it off as well.
Tempted to get right into the 11 yoga poses that work fast for weight loss? Let’s dig in.
Note: You require just a good yoga mat for effectiveness.
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2. Half boat pose (Ardha Navasana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Increases flexibility of your body
- Helps in building steadiness to its core
- Stimulates of your abdominal organs
- Maintains the balance
- Strengthens the hip flexors
- Enhances the alignment of your body through spine stretch
- This posture improves the blood circulation
- Regulates the function of your pancreas and kidney
- Revitalize your energy
- Improves the digestive system
- Stimulates your body’s metabolic rate
3. Side plank (Vasisthasana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Strengthen the core (avoid hips from sagging towards the ground to actually make use of belly muscles)
- Strengthens Arms and Wrists (do not lock your elbow or sink into the shoulder)
- Strengthens Legs (do not lock supporting knee)
- Improves Balance
- Improves Concentration skills
4. Chair pose (Utkatasana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Tones the leg muscles/tired legs
- Strengthens hip flexors, ankles, calves, & back
- Stretches shoulders & chest
- Reduces flat feet
- Reduces Stress
- Stimulates the heart, diaphragm, & abdominal organs
- Improves poor posture & promotes good Body Balance
- Relieves backache, cervical problems & slip disc
5. Shoulder stand (Sarvangasana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Aids digestion(stimulate the movement of stuck wastes & relieves gas pains)
- Relieve swollen legs(Gravity will work to haul excess fluids out of your ankles,legs & feet)
- Calm a headache (alter your blood pressure)
- Relaxes the mind/Soothe the nervous system
- Improves circulation to the upper body & brain
- Leads to Hair Fall Reduction
- Is Therapeutic for Thyroid
- Ensure Cardiovascular Fitness
- Increases Strength & Flexibility
- Boost Circulation and Prevents Varicose Veins
- Turns the negative feelings into the pearls of wisdom
- Relieves Common Cold( relieve nasal congestion)
- Promotes in Sound Sleep
6. Tree pose (Vrikshasana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Strengthens the spine through improvement in posture
- Improves your neuro-muscular coordination
- Deep-breathing helps in sustaining your mental-stability with physical compatibility.
- Tone up your calves, thighs and leg muscles by holding on to this pose
- Deepens your thorax
- Improve your power of balance (mental, physical & emotional)
- Gives relief from sciatica
- Reduces the condition of flat feet.
- Strengthen the bones of the legs and hips, the ligaments of ankles and feet
- Establishes stability of mind & Body
- Makes you stay calm and composed
- Highly boosts focus & concentration
- Offers the body optimum posture/ Fix posture related complaints
- Strengthens the legs, thighs, spine, shoulders, and arms
- Tones your arm & leg muscles (entire standing leg, up to the buttocks)
- Strengthen tendon, ligaments in your ankles & feet
- Turn you towards a rejuvenated & invigorated state
- Helps body to establish pelvic stability
- Builds high self-esteem
- Boosts concentration
7. Dolphin pose (Ardha Pincha Mayusarana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Strengthens Back, Abdomen, Legs, Neck, Chest, mid- and lower back, hips & hamstrings
- Energize the nervous system
- Boost attention & concentration by increasing blood flow to the brain
- Soothe compression between the vertebrae in the spine (caused by sitting for a long time)
- Promotes sleep better
- Improve digestion by stimulating digestive organs.
- Strengthens the shoulders, arms, abdominals, back, hips and hamstrings.
- Prepares the body for enough strength & flexibility in the shoulders to practice headstand.
- Encourage better alignment in the spine
- Relieves cramps, headaches & for easing anxiety
8. Fish pose (Matsyasana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Ensures a Better Spinal Health
- Provides Benefit to Thyroid (neck movements promotes the production of a number of thyroid hormones.)
- Provides extra stretch to the gluteal muscles resulting in Toned Glutes
- Beat the Stress/ Lightens Mood
- Helps in good digestion
- Eases menstrual discomfort
- Detoxifies the body
9. Side leg lift pose (Ananthasana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Stretches and Strengthens by supporting the hips & shoulders
- Eases Lower Back & Sciatica
- Boost the Focus & Concentration level
- Promotese proper Balance, Alignment & Coordination
- Better Blood Circulation for supporting the functions of other organs
- internal organs promotes balance & stability of the physical and mental body overall
- Tones the abdominal muscles leading towards the improved digestion
- Stretches & strengthens the sides of torso
- Boost the flexibilty of the spine along with leg muscles
- Stretches and strengthens the hamstrings
- Targets weight loss on hips and thighs
- Helps better circulation in legs by aiding the development of pelvic region
- Cures hypertension, arthritis, colitis, and sciatica
- Cures disorders related to the uterus, urinary bladder, ovaries, & prostate
10. Bridge pose (Setu Bandhasana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Stretches, strengthens the chest, neck, spine, leg & hips
- Promotes the Strengthens of the back, buttocks, & hamstrings
- Alleviate stress & mild depression
- Calms the brain & central nervous system
- Stimulates the lungs, thyroid glands, & abdominal organs
- Aids digestion
- Helps relieve during symptoms of menopause
- Mitigate backache and headache
- Fades fatigue, anxiety, and insomnia
- Rejuvenates tired legs
- Relieves symptoms of asthma & high blood pressure
- Therapeutic for hypertension, sinusitis, & osteoporosis.
- Relaxes whole body, soothes the brain & fades anxiety.
- Therapy for a pregnant women.
- Ensures the normal blood pressure.
- Boost blood circulation
11. Bow pose (Dhanurasana)
Additional benefits apart from weight loss
- Aids digestion & improves appetite
- Cures obesity, gastrointestinal problems & rheumatism
- Relieves constipation
- Maintains a proper blood circulation
- Makes back flexible, Strengthens back muscles & releases back pain
- Improve the function of liver, pancreas, small intestine & big intestine
- Act as a stress reliever
- Strengthens ankles, thighs, abdominal organs, groins, & chest
- Improves body posture
- Cures respiratory disorder like asthama
- Stimulates reproductive organs
- Improve function of the pancreas
- Beneficial for diabetics
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