Want to lose weight?  Yoga can help.  Within yoga's ability to create total well-being lies its ability to reduce excess weight through burning calories, boosting metabolism and reducing the stress that can lead to emotional eating. 

Yoga is an excellent long-term holistic approach to losing excess weight.  It won't happen overnight, but with consistent yoga practice, you can keep the weight off and maintain a healthy body.  The following series of yoga exercises include exercises with a cardio component to help burn calories, as well as exercises that help tone and trim your waistline.  Breathing exercises are also included to help you relieve the stress that sometimes triggers emotional eating and to learn to see yourself in a new way.

Remember to practice these exercises in the sequence they are presented to get the most out of the sequence and to prevent injury.

6. Sun Flower

2. Down Dog

7. Chopping Wood

3. Walk the Dog

8. Crescent Stretch

4. Up Dog/Down Dog

9. Breathing and Visualization