Yoga Benefits

Seven yoga routines have been designed especially for this site. If you follow the instructions carefully, practice regularly, and eat a healthy, balanced diet, you can confidently expect to drop a dress size by the end of the 7 weeks.The routines convey several benefits:

• Warm-up Stretches: Warm-up stretches prepare your body for more vigorous exercise and help avoid injury.
• Posture-Improving Exercises: Posture-improving exercises improve the tone and strength of your abdominal and back muscles, so you will look and feel slimmer.
• Bandhas: Bandhas improve the muscle tone of your digestive and eliminatory system as well as improve the health and function of your pancreas, which controls sugar levels.
• Vinyasas: improve the way your body loses and maintains weight by nourishing your endocrine glands, which control weight, and by increasing the aerobic capacity of your heart.
• Breathing Techniques: Breathing techniques increase your oxygen levels and your metabolic rate so your body can process food more efficiently.
• Visualizations: Visualizations help you to release any negative attitudes, beliefs, or values that might be sapping your energy and preventing you from reaching your goals. They improve your overall self-image through learning to value attributes other than a size-10 body! They train your mind to picture something clearly, consistently, and long enough so that you can attain your desired goals.

As you practice these dynamic sequences regularly, you will increase the percentage of strong, lean muscle tissue in your body. Each vinyasa builds strength, tone, and flexibility in all of the muscles, joints, and ligaments of the body as well as bone strength, because the vinyasas are weight-bearing exercises. Studies by Miriam Nelson, a researcher at Tufts University and author of Strong Women Stay Young says that increasing muscle mass not only promotes aerobic activity, which burns calories, but also boosts your metabolic rate.

When muscles grow, the body produces more beneficial enzymes, which can help the muscles store and use fuel and aid in waste disposal. Muscle building vinyasas, combined with common-sense nutrition, are very effective in helping you reach a healthy weight, gradually and permanently, by increasing your metabolic rate .When you breathe deeply while practicing the vinyasas in each routine, you increase the oxygenated blood supply to the muscles of your body, which raises your metabolic rate. With each breath, your body cleanses itself with oxygensaturated blood. The toxins are then naturally discarded from your body through perspiration, exhalation, and elimination. This explains why you might feel hot and sweaty, a bit out of breath, and suddenly feel the need to use the bathroom while working through these sequences.

By the end of 7 weeks, you can confidently expect to look and feel more positive about yourself and your body image. Scales are not a good measurement of success, so do not weigh yourself during the 7 weeks, you will be building muscle tissue to make you leaner and more toned, and muscle weighs more than fat. You will know from the way you look and feel that you are making progress.