Couple Yoga

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If you're looking for a holistic approach to losing weight, you should learn about yoga asanas for weight loss. Yoga also is a great way of restoring your natural balance, overall well being and reducing day to day stress.

Yoga uses controlled breathing and asanas to focus your body and mind. By controlling your breathing and relaxing your mind and body you increase your sensitivity to insulin which directly burns fat that is stored in the body.

The food you consume is then turned into fuel to be burned as fuel instead of stored as fat. Couple yoga with a health diet and you will burn calories all day long.

Think of your body as a car. What happens when you run out of fuel. You come to a complete stop. By keeping fuel in your tank and
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Repeat several times, flowing smoothly from dog into cat, and cat back into dog.

Forward Bend or Extension - Uttanasana II

What it does: Stretches the legs and spine, rests the heart and neck, relaxes mind and body

Begin standing straight in Mountain pose or Tadasana. Inhale and raise the arms overhead. Exhale, bend at the hips, bring the arms forward and down until you touch the floor. It's okay to bend your knees, especially if you're feeling stiff. Either grasp your ankles or just leave your hands on the floor and breathe several times.

Repeat 3-5 times. On your last bend, hold the position for 5 or 10 breaths. To come out of the pose, curl upward as if pulling yourself up one vertebrae at a time, stacking one on top of another, and leaving the head hanging down until last.

Don't forget to concentrate and focus on how yoga asanas make you feel. Pain or no pain this is the first step in feeling positive change in your life.

Feel the movement you perform. Listen to your body it will tell you everything.

Push yourself, but do not hurt yourself. Be aware of the muscles you are using to perform the asanas. Don't over exert yourself. Listen to what your body is telling