Yoga is not just slow stretching. You can get a great cardiovascular workout followed by relaxation time, which allows your body to soak up the changes made. For example, a yoga workout like ‘Sun Salutations’, followed by full relaxation can provide immense benefits to your circulation. In this way, you can bring balance to your whole system, as well as burning calories.
Improving circulation is just one of the ways you can get your body working to its capacity and burning fat. Yoga exercises every part of your body and in doing so, normalises your whole system. The combination of stretches and twists invigorates the internal organs, and this can solve all kinds of problems associated with weight gain. Most importantly, your digestive system will work at its optimum level.
When you practice yoga, you use a complementary system of health that treats your entire wellbeing. Practicing breathing and meditation techniques along with your physical exercise, means your all-round wellness will benefit. With these tools you can restore balance to all parts of your life. In fact, the overwhelming cause of weight gain is emotional. A calm mind will enable you to eat with awareness, and bring an end to any stress-related eating habits.
Yoga’s meditative approach to physical exercise means you will enjoy it. There is none of the stress of the weekly after-work aerobics class that you are just too tired to go to. When you see the benefits of this approach for yourself, you will be on the way to a practice that will keep you slim and healthy in the long-term!