15-Minute Yoga Asana Sequence For Quick Weight Loss

Planning to accelerate your weight loss routine? Give this 15-minute yoga routine a try to lose weight quickly! Increased weight can be an invitation to several other health problems. Yoga can be a safe and effective method to lose weight. Yoga postures incorporate breath control and conscious breathing to increase your heart rate, balance your blood pressure, improve blood circulation and also enhance your overall being. It can be done twice a day, preferably early in the morning and also in the evening. This 15-minute yoga routine can be helpful for you to fasten your weight loss and maintain overall health.

# Utkatasana

- Start in Samasthithi

- Bend your knees and shift your weight on your heels

- Inhale and lift both arms up

- Look up at your palms

# Padhasthasana

- Start in Samasthithi

- Exhale and fold forward

- Bend from the hip and try to bring your belly close to your thighs

- Reach down with your palms or fingertips

- Place them beside your feet

# Santolansana

- Start in table top pose or Marjariasana or jump back from Padahasthasana

- Straighten your knees

- Maintain alignment of palms under shoulders and knees under hips

- Keep both arms straight

- Engage your abdominal muscles

# Urdhvamukhi Svanasana

- From Santolanasana, inhale and drop your hips down.

- You are still on your palms and toes

- Do not let your belly touch the floor

# Adomukhi Svanasana

- From Urdhvamukhi Svanasana, exhale and lift your hips

- Try to bring heels down as you push the floor away

- Your body is shaped like a triangle

# Vashishtasana (Palms and Elbow variations)

- From santolansana, turn towards your left side

- Balance on your right palm

- You can place one foot atop of the other or bring the left leg forward and foot down

- Repeat on the other side

- You can try this both palms as well as elbows

# Balasana

- Drop your knees down

- Sit back in child’s pose to rest your pelvis on your heels

- Extend arms forward and place your forehead down