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Jumpstart Your Weight Loss Resolutions with THE YOGA MINIBOOK FOR WEIGHT LOSS!

The New, Expanded Kindle Edition of THE YOGA MINIBOOK FOR WEIGHT LOSS contains bonus extras including Elaine's Yoga Weight Loss Diet Plan and Yoga Weight Loss Recipes.

The first in the Yoga Minibook series, THE YOGA MINIBOOK FOR WEIGHT LOSS offers a complete guide to yoga diet and exercise for permanent weight loss and weight management. 

In six concise chapters full of illustrations, readers learn poses to increase cardiovascular fitness, burn calories, strengthen and tone specific body parts, with the final chapter dedicated to choosing a healthy diet. 

This targeted program combines easy-to-do poses with aerobics, to melt off extra pounds and boost muscle tone. Step-by-step illustrated instructions guide you through powerful yoga exercises specially designed to:
*Burn calories and lose weight
*Strengthen and sculpt your abs
*Boost metabolism and banish cellulite
*Tone your body from head to toe
*Improve cardiovascular fitness and flexibility
*Help beginners and large people with Chair Yoga
*Improve Post Pregnancy Shape

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Understanding Yoga
Chapter 2: Before You Begin
Chapter 3: Yoga Power Workout
Chapter 4: Yoga for Abdominals
Chapter 5: Yoga for Toning
Chapter 6: Gentle Yoga
Chapter 7: Yoga Food

CHAPTER 1
Understanding Yoga
Are you one of the millions of people trying to lose weight, or trying not to gain it all back? Weight control is a common problem, so if you answered yes, you’re certainly not alone. Over the years, I’ve worked with many people just like you who have similar questions and concerns, such as the following: With the proliferation of fitness trends, how do you choose the best weight management plan for your body’s needs? When you’ve had enough of trendy programs how can you maintain your weight loss?

You hold the answers to these questions in your hands. I’ve written The Yoga Minibook for Weight Loss for everyone who is tired of being disappointed, let down, fed up, exhausted, and dizzy from riding the unhealthy dietary-fad roller coaster. The yoga program described in this book approaches weight management in a unique way that will integrate your body, mind, and spirit. By following this program you can safely and successfully lose pounds and inches. You can also distribute your weight while firming and toning your out-of-shape areas. Best of all, the gentle stretching, strengthening, and firming poses in the pages that follow are suitable for people at all levels of fitness and flexibility. Yoga for Weight Loss is a life-style program that will help you achieve and maintain your desired weight goals, make the best fitness and food choices, and enrich your mind.

Exercise fads come and go, but after more than five thousand years, the practice of yoga is still with us - and more popular than ever. Most weight loss plans ultimately prove to be fads, offering short-term solutions to a long-term problem. Most people find these plans impossible to stay on for a prolonged period of time. In contrast, the Yoga for Weight Loss program is based on a fundamentally sound, totally different approach. The practice of yoga offers a positive change in lifestyle, where permanent weight loss is a natural by-product of enjoyable exercise.

At the core of the program is a routine that features vinyasa yoga practice, a series of postures that flow seamlessly from one to the next. It’s a dynamic combination of yoga and aerobics that will help you burn calories, raise your metabolism, and promote your cardiovascular health. With my Yoga Power workout you’ll melt off pounds, increase your strength and flexibility, and stretch your spiritual muscles all at once.

If excess weight around your stomach is your nemesis, try practicing poses from the “Yoga for Abdominals” chapter. Just a few minutes a day will help you create and maintain that sleek, sensual stomach you’ve always dreamed about. If you’re concerned about unsightly cellulite or flabby, out-of-shape muscles, the “Yoga for Toning” chapter can get you firm, lean, and fit with supersculpting yoga postures. This yoga workout has the power to transform your body. It will tone you from head to toe, help you lose fat, encourage good posture, build muscle, and reduce the appearance of cellulite.

Yoga is not just for skinny ultraflexible, beautiful people, although the media often portray it that way. On the contrary, the greatest boon is that yoga most benefits those who need it the most. The “Gentle Yoga” chapter is for beginners and people with full-sized bodies, who may be intimidated by the challenge of more advanced, pretzel-like yoga poses. Although some yoga postures may look difficult, remember that yoga is noncompetitive and emphasizes self-acceptance. With patient and regular practice you can safely and gradually increase your workout intensity and fitness level, regardless of your size or shape.

For valuable information on yoga nutrition and eating, the “Yoga Food” chapter includes a sampling of the world’s healthiest cuisines - the Mediterranean, vegetarian, Asian, and ayurvedic diets. By incorporating the yoga principles of Ayurveda and the foods of these deliciously healthful cuisines into your eating style, you’ll give yourself an opportunity to achieve and maintain your perfect weight and feel your very best. In that chapter you’ll also find helpful ways to modify your eating habits, such as practicing mindful eating and scaling down your food portions yet still feeling satisfied.

The Yoga Minibook for Weight Loss also features tips on how to incorporate yoga into your everyday life, along with ways to develop your personal yoga practice. I’ve created Yoga for Weight Loss to help people of all sizes, shapes, and ages reach and maintain their ideal weight and fitness goals, through sustained individualized practice and good lifelong eating habits.

Over the years, I have studied and practiced many hatha yoga styles, such as Integral, Iyengar, ashtanga vinyasa, kundalini, mantra, raja, and tantra, and have been especially interested in yoga’s therapeutic applications. I have observed individuals and groups practicing yoga, and have seen its power to help them lose weight and relieve stress while they increase their energy, strength, and longevity. I’ve written my yoga minibook series - the first four being The Yoga Minibook for Weight Loss, The Yoga Minibook for Longevity, The Yoga Minibook for Stress Relief, and The Yoga Minibook for Energy and Strength - as self-help guides, in response to people's many fitness, diet, and wellness problems, questions, and concerns. I've had an opportunity to apply yoga techniques to help people achieve their wellness goals, and I’ve seen spectacular results.

My greatest wish is to share with you the many wonderful benefits yoga practice has given to me and the individuals I’ve assisted over the years. Whether you’re looking to lose weight, boost your energy, relieve stress, or find the fountain of youth, I’ve created a yoga book for you. But before we dive in, a little background.