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Yoga in these days is becoming popular and is practiced by people mainly for its health benefits. The term yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word “union,” which means ‘to join.’

It aims for the great union of the body, mind, and spirit through a system of postures, breathing exercises, meditation. In reality, it includes a wide range of disciplines designed to eventually bring the practitioners closer to god

Yoga deep breathing helps in increasing the oxygen intake to the body cells, including the fat cells. This results into burning up of fat cells. One of other aspect of Yoga is that it reduces anxiety which, in turn, reduces anxious eating. It is human tendency that whenever we are tensed we tend to swallow our food without deriving much satisfaction and pleasure. In the process we end up eating more. On the other hand, if we approach our meals with better mood, we tend to be less likely to overeat in a worried effort to calm our anxieties. Yoga plays an important role in making us more calm and cool.

When you do yoga practice, you work your whole body, stretching and toning your muscles, streamlining and firming them. With Yoga you can also make strong muscles which also burn calories even while you are at rest.

In simple words, Yoga is all about balance. Like balance in diet, balance in drinking, balance in exercise, and balance in purporting yourself.

In this article, we discuss some valuable tips of Yoga for reducing healthy weight loss. If you really want to lose weight, then follow these steps. Steps are:

Sun Salutations: 24 sun salutations a day, at a speed of 4 rounds in a minute, can provide benefits altogether of both asanas and exercises. If you do regular exercise of sun salutations, then it’s also beneficial for lungs and enchanting mantras have a relaxing effect on mind.

Pranayama: Pranayama is a technique to control vital energy of life and act as a vehicle for energy management. Kapalbhati, Bhasrika and fast breathing leaves excellent effects on obese people. These improve lungs tendencies and help burning fats.

Yogic asans for arms and legs: In arms and legs exercise like Tree pose, Hero pose, Dog pose (face up), Dog pose (face down), Swinging lotus pose, Bridge pose (face up), Bridge pose (face down), Celebacy pose, and Squat and rise pose will help you for weight loss and it will also give you peace mind.

Ashtanga: Ashtanga Yoga is a very vigorous style of practice with a few distinct advantages for those people who want to lose weight. Ashtanga is one of the most dedicated exercises of yogis, and it will also encourage beginners to sign up for a series of classes, which will help with motivation. Ashtanga Yoga is aideal for the home practitioners, once you learn the poses.

Asanas: Asanas in Yoga such as the fish posture and shoulder stand are specific for the thyroid gland. Actually, Asanas increase the fat metabolism in the body and also covering up fat to energy and muscle. An individual will not just reduce fat but also have vitality and better muscle tone.

Deep Breath yoga: One of most effective exercise in Yoga is Deep Breath. Taking deep breath in yoga is very useful to enhance the oxygen intake to the body cells containing the fat cells in body. Other yoga asanas like tree pose, sun salute, triangle pose, locust pose, camel pose, wind releasing pose, cat pose, angle pose, Hero pose II and I, aeroplane pose are also useful to reduce body weight.

Bikram Yoga: It is recommended that you have attend a minimum of 10 Bikram yoga sessions per month (3 or more sessions per week is optimal) to gain maximum weight loss benefits. It will take 13 sessions for enjoying maximum benefits from Bikram yoga; three classes to understand and get used to the posture, then ten classes to work optimally with poses.