By Thomas Choo
 It is no secret that yoga promotes a healthful and balanced lifestyle. When practised together with a calorie burning regime, it may show exceptional results in terms of weight control.
Practicing yoga will also encourage your metabolism, increasing the calorie burning process, but you should not see it as an all-encompassing method. In addition to losing weight you will also experience an increased ability to concentrate and focus, greater resistance to stress factors and an all-round healthier way of living.
Let's get a little technical here. Metabolism is regulated by the thyroid, a factor of the endocrine system. It is responsible for the substance processes in your body that transform food into energy. Yoga uses a string of twisting poses that stimulate the work flow of the intimate organs, therefore boosting metabolism to burn more calories and reduce your body weight.
Enhanced local circulation is another direct result with yoga postures and this leads to a healthier, more energetic body. When the calorie intake is lower than the calorie usage, your body will start burning fat cells to acquire the needed |
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By Cindy Heller
 There are many different types of yoga and each has its own traits and benefits. By picking up the fundamental on each and every type of yoga, you can determine what is suitable for you.
Hatha Yoga is one of the most widespread and it a divine practice that concentrates on the physical aspects to derive mental, emotional and physical health. It goes back to the fifteenth century and founded by Yogi Swatmarama, a wise teacher. Hatha yoga is called "hatha vidya" with "ha" means the sun and "tha" implies the moon and together they are the "nadis" or the flow of energy in the body and must work to achieve "dhyana" a feature of meditation.
The full notion of the ancient hatha yoga is a divine path that encompasses moral and ethics, exercises, breathe control and meditation. Hatha yoga practices that are taken up by western practitioners largely concentrate on poses. Both hatha and raja yoga concentrate on the physical aspects and are collectively known as astanga yoga.
The key difference is that raja yoga concentrate on "asanas" or poses |
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By Leah K Copbagy
 The benefit of yoga for back pain treatment is hard to overestimate. Back injuries are often delicate, chronic matters that are resistant to many physically demanding therapeutic solutions. In fact, many back pain sufferers find that traditional Western exercise can actually increase pain levels and exacerbate their condition.
This is a cruel irony. The exercises many of us know can actually worsen back conditions. Yet physicians will instruct those with back problems to engage in some form of physical activity to strengthen the area and to reduce overall pain. We know we need exercise, but we also know that exercise could be devastating.
Fortunately, there does appear to be an alternative and its use is increasing. One can use yoga for back pain reduction. Those who have learned and utilized yoga as part of their overall pain management and elimination strategy report that the technique is a great way to transition into a far less painful life. This calming, meditative and physically challenging exercise plan has a few very strong advantages over the kinds of exercise many of us might perceive |
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