Yoga for Weight Loss: Set Up Your Home Yoga Practice

Do The Yoga Home Workout

Yoga has always been the ideal way to good health and fitness. Yoga exercises are calming, as a result they help one get rid of stress and anxiety. There will always be stress in our lives with the practice of Yoga you can relieve yourself of most of the stress.

Here are some Yoga exercises you can do at home with the help of an instructor. Note! Breathing should be done from the diaghram.

• Ten double leg lifts; Lay on your back with your arms down next to your hips. Breathe in and lift both legs up straight along with the floor as high as possible and contract your abdominal muscles while doing this. Now breathe normally.

• Three knee hugs: Lay on the floor with your feet together, breathe in and bring your knees together no raise both legs to the chest. Breathe out and keep the knees close to the chest and rock from side to side gently for thirty second. Now breathe normally.

• Supine twist: Lay on the floor and bend your knees so that the ankle is touching the sitting bones. Open your arms out to the sides so that they are shoulder height and the palms are facing down. Inhale and when you exhale roll the knees over to the left and turn your head to the right so that you are looking at your right arm. Hold this pose for thirty second breathing normally. Keep your shoulders and your arms close to the floor.

• Staff Yoga Posture: Sit on the floor with your legs straight out, and your toes facing the ceiling, in the front of you and place the palms of your hands on the floor next to your hips. Stretch your toes out pulling them toward you. Push your arms down and breathe in , straighten the back, keep stretching your back upwards and breathe normally. Hold this position for thirty seconds and keep the shoulders down and the chest open.

These poses (exercises) are routines you would use to begin a more strenuous routine. When you have mastered this beginning you can then go on to such poses as: Intense spread leg stretch; extended side angle; standing forward bend; Rishi’s pose and the chair pose. You can then start on these poses: Eagle pose or spinal balance; shoulderstand and then you can go into the child pose for a counter balance for the shoulder stand.

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