Top Yoga Poses for Weight Loss

The excess weight that is pressing on your body is causing you to restrain from going to a party, prom or a wedding. We say, get back in shape by doing yoga, make yourself proud, and learn to feel good about yourself. It’s a well established fact since thyroid glands affect our metabolism; they are responsible for weight loss and weight gain too. Take a look at yogasanas that are aimed to stimulate your thyroid gland in order to increase the hormonal secretion, acting upon your metabolism, and increasing metabolic activity, helping to reduce your weight.

1 - Kapalbhati Pranayama: This posture will make need you to sit on a flat surface with your legs folded. You must be able to relax all the joints and ensure that you have an erect spine. Once you are in this position, then you must close your eyes and blow air out of your nose slowly while contracting the muscles of the stomach inside. Then you will need to inhale deeply and allow your stomach to contract and expand vigorously.  This breathing technique must be repeated several times for ten minutes and also make sure to fasten the pace as you repeat. This breathing technique gives a thorough exercise to your abdominal muscles.  For more effective results try to increase the time period of the exercise from 10 to 30 minutes as you become an expert in this breathing technique, 


2 - Anulom-Vilom: This is a highly effective method to regulate the movement of oxygen in your body and it gives the abdominal muscles a good work out. In order to do the Anulom-Vilom pranayama, you will need to sit on a flat surface with your legs folded, and then relax your joints and ensure that your spine is erect. Then you should close your eyes and hold the right nostril with the right thumb and press it against your nose in order to inhale only through your left nostril. Then you must slowly take a deep breath with your left nostril and make sure that your stomach expands as you inhale and fills your stomach with oxygen. Try to hold this breath for a while and release then release it from the right nostril once you are holding the left nostril with your fingers of your right hand. Repeat this on the other nose, using the other hand to hold the nostril.

3 - Surya Namaskar: The Surya Namaskar is the ultimate yoga exercise, which includes a set of 12 exercises that are always done in the morning. This also allows the practitioner to receive ample amount of vitamin D from the morning sun. This exercise also besides, helps one in making the spine flexible by letting it bend in whatever way possible.