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Can Yoga Help You Lose Weight? YES

Posted by Victoria Weinblatt, MSEd, RYT-200, CMT | burn calories |

Yoga can help you lose weight, especially if you do the poses that burn the most calories.

Which Yoga Poses Burn the Most Calories?

Posted by Victoria Weinblatt, MSEd, RYT-200, CMT | burn calories, burn fat, weight maintenance |

To create a yoga sequence for weight loss, the calories burned doing yoga should be as high as possible, depending on your ability. Use these three yoga poses.

Yoga to Burn Calories: Surya Namaskar

Posted by Victoria Weinblatt, MSEd, RYT-200, CMT | surya namaskar, weight loss |

If you want to do Hatha yoga to burn calories and lose weight, you should start each yoga session with surya namaskar, aka sun salutation. This asana sequence burns more calories than other yoga asanas because it is a cardiovascular exercise. After the first round of Surya Namaskar, your heartbeat increases to…

Yoga Burns More Fat than High-Intensity Exercise

Posted by Victoria Weinblatt, MSEd, RYT-200, CMT | burn fat |

Low-intensity exercise like yoga burns more fat than high-intensity exercise. Sixty percent of the calories you burn by doing yoga are from fat. These Hatha Yoga moves burn the most fat calories.