The reason that yoga helps you to lose weight is because it is dedicated to helping your body eliminate toxins. We are full of toxins. From the food we eat to the air we breathe to the water we bathe in, toxins invade our body daily. Yoga is designed to help your body eliminate these harmful toxins.
Not only do you eliminate toxins through the various poses, but since yoga lowers levels of stress hormones and increases insulin sensitivity, your body can then go into fat-burning mode and burn food as fuel rather than store it as fat.
The best part about yoga is that since it is low impact, you can practice it at any age or any fitness level. "Never too late, never too old, never too bad and never too sick to do this yoga and start from scratch again." says Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram yoga.
Bikram Yoga is a yoga class that is held in a room where the temperature has been raised to over 100 degrees in order to sweat out toxins. The heat of the room also increases flexibility, which leads to a better workout.
In your Bikram Yoga class you will be led through a series of 26 poses and 2 breathing exercises, which according to Bikram work out "every single tendon, ligament and muscle, from bones to skin, inside out!" The series of postures are arranged logically so that you move smoothly from one posture to the next. There are many different types of yoga you can try. You can practice yoga in a class and sweat it out at the gym, or in the comfort of your own home with yoga DVDs.
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