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Deva was the Champion of Champions in all yoga competitions in India and has embraced yoga since the age of 6. Not only has he been teaching since 1983 in India, Hong Kong, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal and Singapore, he has also been the chief judge for hundreds of state, national and international competitions globally. With a diploma in Yoga Therapy, he has over 25 years of experience treating patients and has written numerous articles on yoga for leading publications. Deva teaches Hatha Yoga for all levels, asana and pranayama, Yoga Therapy and Yoga Nidra (meditation and relaxation). His expertise in Yoga Therapy - especially effective for people of all ages with chronic problems and psychosomatic diseases - has allowed him to incorporate light mobilising energy, curative yoga postures, pranayama, breathing exercises and relaxation into his classes.

2011/01/26

Can yoga reduce fat?

It's a very common thinking that yoga can reduce fat. Actually the role of yoga is to balance our body and mind. It’s very easy now a day to see some people who crazily work out to burn fat from the body. They don't know what should be the measurement of fat in ones body and don't know the role of fat in human body. Slime always doesn't mean healthy. Excessive fat in the body is sickness at the same time right label of fat in the body can keep us healthy. Fat helps to keep the body worm, supplies food and energy to the cells, protects the bones and muscles and makes the body graceful. But excessive fat or obesity is really a burning problem now a day. Unhealthy wrong and irregular life style, heavy diet, constant use of high fat food, lack of physical exercise, comfortable life style, glandular or genetic problems are the main causes for gaining unnecessary extra fat. Yoga is a life style. The practice of yoga will give you a clear idea about body, health, diet, rest, life style, exercise and thinking. Only balanced diet, balanced rest and balanced exercise can give a healthy body. Imbalance of any one of these three can cause disease in the body. If you choose yoga to balance your fat, you cannot choose only the exercise part of yoga to get the maximum benefit out of it. Of course yoga postures will help you to burn calorie, make your body heated to sweat, stretch the muscles to maintain its elasticity, make your internal organs active, glands' secretion perfect, but these are the physical part of yoga. Along with yoga posture practice, one needs to do fasting periodically and methodically. Kriya or cleansing has a very effective part to reduce fat. One needs to cut down excessive fat food, high calories food and high carbohydrate food from the diet. It’s better to avoid consuming carbohydrate and protein together in one mill. Introduce more fibrous food and vegetable in diet. It’s good to avoid sleeping immediately after meal.

But one should have a clear idea about how much he or she wants to be slim. Some times too much die ting and too much exercise make people crazy. Even the skin on the bone cannot make them happy. They need to balance their mind before they go for yogasana or diet.