Weight Loss with Yoga Archives

Simplify the Uncomplicated
The life has to lived fully optimally. With many dictate, manuals, inspirations. and many paths to choose from, one has to find what is suitable to one’ own self. Mindful living with positive thinking are some of the simple ways to be adapted to make it beautiful. The yogic science has a lot, which can guide us. The combination of keeping body fit, mind peaceful, and an energetic prana (life force) is the mantra of wellness.
The number five, Panch is a divine number. Five elements, five senses and five major organs and many fives make our life. Five is Panch in Sanskrit. Panch Mantra is one such platform, which devised its philosophy to give us a path to lead us to optimize our life’s fulfillment. With its philosophy as bedrock, it offers many courses and workshops for us to learn. It is an understatement, that a lot of it is borrowed from Yogic science and some new frontiers and research knowledge makes it to utilize the best way forward. A new integrative approach, a Panch Mantra Wellness comes forward with this philosophy.
The five pillars of our philosophy are proper movement, deeper breathing, adequate relaxation, wholesome fresh food, and good thoughts, create a balance in our life. These five principles need further elaboration, and further to delve deeper into it. These points are taken deeper into our discussions at our workshops crafted especially for people interested in the pursuing the finer points of happiness and to life blissfully and live deeply, each and every moment.
Meditation is another such pillar and a frontier, which scientific research is exploring aggressively, its benefits. And each day they find and compel us to adapt it into our life. The benefits are many. The essential key is that focused attention towards one’s own self and in silence gives which yet nothing else is able to provide. Meditation techniques are many and many are in the market. We at our workshops unravel the mystery of each technique and distill it to give you an understanding. Consequently, you discover the best way forward for yourself to master and enjoy its fruits shamelessly.

Dr Sadhna, Swarupa, Yoga therapist at Yoga Sadhna India
A psychologist, Naturalist and an ERYT Yoga Therapist, voices social consciousness in her lectures and inspires and guides her follower in East and West.

A lot of people will raise their eyebrows to the roof if someone talks about the amazing weight loss benefits of yoga. “No pain, no gain!” is what they’ll say. Yoga is “too passive”, “too gentle” to show any results they’ll tell you. But the truth is, they couldn’t be more wrong if they tried.

Weight loss with yoga is not an urban myth. It’s not a fitness fad either for those tend to be alarmingly short-lived. Yoga is a science that optimizes the flow of energy and balance in both mind and body.

“But I don’t even break a sweat when I do yoga!” some may observe. Yes, you don’t. But you need to think beyond your intuitive association of fat loss with calorie burn, cardiac overstimulation and sweating. Not all modalities of fitness rely upon that method. Yoga surely doesn’t, so let’s look into how it works.

You could read up on the oodles and oodles of research that offers quantitative evidence of yoga’s efficacy at weight loss. But perhaps understanding the logic behind it more important. Yogic practice has the capability to alter the brain’s functional capacity. It enlarges the stress-regulating hippocampus as well as focus-controlling superior parietal cortex. When your stress levels are well-managed and you’re less prone to distraction, your eating habits and diet improve. Binge eating becomes less frequent and metabolism is revitalized. Breathing exercises also ensure your food is digested optimally and nutrients are stored appropriately with minimal fat gain. Add to this the fact that yoga asanas entail challenging bodily balance and alignment practices, all of which mobilize muscles, helping them grow and toning your body. And advanced practitioners who perform more difficult asanas even report sweating and shortness of breath, the same way as cardiovascular exercises produce.

Still not convinced?

Well, then have a look at the numerous personal accounts and genuine testimonials from people who claim to have shed pounds and kilos of weight with just half an hour of regular yogic practice. One can dismiss research as fabricated, but what’re you going to say to those who vouch for the weight loss effectuality of yoga with their bodies as physical testimony? The fact of the matter is that yoga is an ancient lifestyle philosophy which is all the more suitable for a modern generation of urban-dwellers for it targets not just the body, but also the mind.

Why some people resist the allure of yoga is because they feel it’s not exciting enough for them. Yes, it is no bungy jumping but it can be greatly enjoyable as well. Apart from the fact that it invigorates the mind and alters its landscape to a happier one, it can be fun in the performative sense too. Group classes, couples’ sessions and agro yoga are good options for those who want a different kind of experience, something new, something off-beat.

The bottom line is, if you’re a sceptic too, don’t base your belief on assumptions. Go ahead and give it a try. And when your body begins to transform, make sure to give yoga due credit; be a proud convert!