Easy Weight Loss Yoga: 12 Best Poses to Get Lean, Strong and Calm
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Discover how the ancient practice of yoga can help you get calm and sexy by ramping up your metabolism, adding muscle, eliminating toxins and unwanted fat. Learn the best poses to shed pounds and inches while toning the organs and glands that make you a lean, serene, fat-burning machine. You'll relax better, become focused, strong and energized.
Let's face it, no one likes to diet, and diets alone never work for lasting weight loss. Repeated dieting causes metabolic and psychological damage. You need to outsmart your metabolism to lose weight and keep it off. Find out the secrets of how to coax your body into using up its fat stores for energy, not saving them as extra flab on your hips.
Includes motivational tips to keep you "on the mat," and how important proper breathing is to achieving the healthy, lithe, and sexy body you've always wanted.
Get started now, see lasting results after a few short weeks. No yoga experience necessary, you can dive in at any level with these 12 easy poses. Illustrated.
Patricia Bacall
Dedicated to helping "Make Happiness Happen" via yoga, healthy eating, and the powerful Vivation breathwork technique for emotional resolution, Patricia Bacall teaches people to heal negativity and live happier, less stressful, more fulfilling lives. Patricia shares her practical wisdom and writes about techniques, tools, tricks and tips that she feels are useful and doable for anyone who wants to increase their physical health and feelings of wellbeing. She has been practicing and teaching yoga and Vivation for over 20 years and has also had an ongoing yoga practice for over 30 years. As a breathwork coach, yoga teacher, and seminar leader in private sessions and classes throughout the world, Patricia has a practical style that is engaging and intuitive. She has been teaching personal growth since 1989, has studied extensively with Jim Leonard, the founder of Vivation®, and is one of the best-trained and most experienced breathwork professionals in the United States. With a gentle and positive approach, she helps people love and appreciate themselves as unique individuals. Her workshops and classes attract people of all backgrounds and ages who want to improve their lives. Patricia is the North American Director of the Association of Vivation Professionals (AVP), and travels widely teaching Vivation to individuals, couples and groups. When not traveling, she resides in Los Angeles with her husband Michael Garver, Boomer the dog, Corona the parrot, and Mick the cockatiel. She can be reached at pb@vivationusa.com. To learn more about Vivation breathwork, go to http://www.vivationusa.com, or http://www.lovingyourselfthin.com
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Easy Weight Loss Yoga - Patricia Bacall
Easy Weight Loss Yoga: 12 Best Poses to get Lean, Strong, and Calm
Patricia Bacall
©2012 Patricia Bacall, Benesserra Publishing.
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Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at press time, the author and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any injury, loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.
This book is not intended as a substitute for the advice and guidance of a qualified yoga teacher or the medical advice of physicians. The reader should regularly consult a physician in matters relating to his/her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention. Learning yoga should be done with a qualified, experienced teacher, and most importantly, common sense and caution should be used in embarking on any physically demanding endeavor.
Contents
Foreword
Yoga for Weight Loss
How to NOT Lose Weight
Eliminating Your Fat Furnace
Why It’s Called Die-eting
One Body—Many Systems: Tuning up Your Entire System for Health
The Glands and Organs Affected by Yoga Postures
The Hormones Yoga Stimulates to Help You Lose Weight
Introduction to Yoga
Benefits of the Yogic Lifestyle
Yogic Diet
Yoga and Weight Loss
The Best Poses for Your Practice
Yoga: The Marriage of Movement and Breath
The Poses
Forward Bends
Side Bends
Plow Pose
Backward Bends
Cobra Pose
Bow Pose
Bridge Pose
Spinal Twisting
Crescent Pose
Chair Pose
Downward Facing Dog
Foreword
For anyone contemplating taking up a yoga practice for the purpose of healthy weight loss, I want to acknowledge and congratulate you. You are embarking on a journey that will not only help you become the slender, fit person you desire to be, but the entire practice of yoga, with its numerous and far-reaching benefits, will also help you be calmer, happier, and wiser.
My advice to you is to simply start at whatever level you can handle, and challenge yourself a little bit more when you feel completely comfortable at any given level. In other words, just get your yoga on! Sometimes the hardest part of any yoga self-improvement program is just getting yourself