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This post will address Hoow to control obesity by yoga? Is Yoga good for weight loss? Over weight will definitely not be a problem you face, if you follow yoga. Pranayam which is a yoga asana recommended for the obese people. Pranayam helps reducing the overall weight of the body and can definitely benefit a person in the form of weight loss. One should have to pay attention to the cause of obesities along with doing yoga asanas. It is not like you can go on eating junk food and expect yoga to keep your weight in control. One should keep a parallel check on the daily diet of the person willing to do yoga for weight loss.


Loss of Activity
Loss of exercise is one of the main reason that many people gain weight. One has to start being active in life. What any other way can be better than doing Yoga? Start doing pranayam. Though it is hard to get
pranayam going at first attempt but as time passes on, one will be able to do it more efficiently and can also increase the time to do it from 5 minutes to up to whatever minutes he/she is comfortable of..

Bringing Inherited Obesity Under control
Those who have inherited obesity or has a history of obesity in family can also bring obesity under control by doing yoga. It is not evident though that inherited obesity can be totally controlled by yoga but it definitely helps a person if started early. Such a person is likely to gain weight but very less compared to others not performing yoga.

General Stats of how Yoga proves good in weigh loss
There is almost 20% to 40% of the working class population around the world which are suffering from obesity. There are almost 10 to 20% of teens who are suffering from obesity all over the world. One can get rid of all the problems arising from obesity by performing yogasanas. As some of the asanas indirectly work in favor of increasing self confidence and work efficiency, it can be a feel good factor for a obese person. It has been found that doing yogasana can reduce weight by 250 gms daily. A rare amount of people have also reported a 2 kg of weight loss.daily.

Suggestions of Yoga Practitioners
Eating excessive food is one of the reason for gaining weight. It is recommended by yoga practitionars
to follow the below advice along with pranayam to bring weight under control
1) Drink water after one hour of meal.
2) Drink water when you wake up in the morning.
3) Dont eat too much sugar.
4) Eat less than what your hunger asks you to.

Tip: Just changing some of your daily activities, diet and performing yoga regularly one can bring weight under control.

Those who read this blog regularly might have known that in my Yoga Session 4 post, I talked about the relaxation techniques and assured the reason for Yoga Session 3 being skipped was me working on each of the Yoga Aasana. Anyways the time has come and I would like to combine third and fourth session into one. Soma the trainer, sent us the ten minute programme and asked us to introduce it into our daily routine. I suggest you all to include it in your daily routine as well.

You can download the programme here. The programme as discussed earlier was designed specifically keeping focus on people who work in a sitting position daily for more than 8 hours with minimum exercise. The attached file has breathing techniques, warm up exercise, suryanamaskar, Asanas and relaxation techniques with each step explained with the help of image.

Related Posts :

• Yoga Session 1
• Yoga Session 2
• Yoga Session 4

It’s getting better day by day. In the fourth session of yoga we were taught relaxation technique post Yoga. Here is some insight of relaxation and I will update this post with more link on relaxation as I research it more in coming time.

We rest our body by lying on the floor. Palms face upwards. Relax!!! Be there concentrate on your body, let go all the tensions. Breathe normal and again concentrate on your body. Be there for another few seconds. Slowly start releasing the tensions from your toes, concentrate on your toes and try to relax all the muscles, joints and let go all the tensions through it. Be there for half to one minute. Move upwards to calf’s, feel them, let the tension go, relax be there for couple of minutes. Now we move towards knees and apply the same process as above. Then thighs ( again the same process). Now we come to upper body. Feel your heart and the pumping, and the flow from heart everywhere, try to relax. Feel the rib cage part and relax yourself, relax your shoulders, let them at ease, breathe normally and be there for another couple of minutes. Now we come to the face. For face we first concentrate on the chin and try and relax it for a minute. Then we feel the eyes and eyeballs, concentrate and relax. Then we move to the forehead and after a minute of concentration we let go all the tension through the back of our scalp.

Note: I will update this thread with detailed relaxation techniques. Today was my first day at relaxation technique so we can learn a lot more in coming future. If you would like to share something about the relaxation technique. Feel free to do so, we have a comments section below.

( I am working on the third session as it will need some asanas to describe)

I have applied for a 5 day yoga session in my organization, which is companies initiative towards employee's health. Today was the first day. The session will be a combination of Yoga as well as exercise.

Today was the first day and the trainer who also is a alliance with TCS namely Soma Mukherjee is an experienced, specializes corporate fitness trainer who has been associated with some leading corporate houses in Pune since 8 – 9 years. She also advices her clients on diet & lifestyle management issues to improve their total health profile. To know more about Soma visit, scfitness.

Today's session was about overall fitness and Soma explained what exactly is fitness. It is the people who don't react with a "Oh god" like phrases when bending or performing a related activity. Fitness somewhat is related to stamina. There are two types of exercises Cardiovascular and free weights. Cardio vascular exercises include jogging. Jogging increases your stamina. Weight training is also necessary. Yoga according to Soma is a combination of both these exercises as while balancing or doing some asanas for example while standing on one leg you have to balance whole weight of your body on a single leg, thus asking the muscles of your leg to prepare themselves to cope with it. Similarly while performing asana's related to breathing, you are providing your body with more oxygen and thus boosting your body to carry on the activities like purifying more blood and heart to circulate more blood through out the body.

According to Soma

Majority of females don't pay attention towards weight training. It's true that
for female's weights won't make your biceps buldgy or muscular but they are
important as in long run of life your bones need to absorb more and more calcium
to stay healthy.

Why Warming Up is Necessary?

Soma explained why warm up is necessary in simple words which I will try and put in simple words as well.

Some body fluids which are present in the joints needs to get circulated so that the body is ready to handle sudden pressure while jogging or while doing weights. These fluids when flowing provides as a lubricant for the joints and so we can avoid injuries. Rest of the session we were involved in warm up exercise for all muscle groups and after a bit of research a found a ndtv site where you can take a look at each of the warm up exercise in detail.

Keep looking for the next 4 sesssions, I am expecting a lot more from these sessions for all of us.