Does Yoga Burn Calories?

Yoga is one of the effective means to reduce weight,improving flexibility and toning of the body.The calories to be burned during yoga is influenced by the type of aasanas you are performing for example a 150 pound person by performing ashtanga yoga can burn upto 220calories /30 min.The intense form of yoga i.e. Bikram yoga can burn more than 300 calorie/30 mins.

Hi Anuja,
Yoga is a great means to burn calories. Yoga is a low impact aerobic exercise which helps you to burn calories. Being a low impact aerobic exercises, yoga can be practiced by old age peoples. Even Lifemojo Expert has denoted the approximate calories burned which shows that it would be a great start towards weight loss goal. So if you are a yoga lover then go ahead with it because it have lots of other benefits than burning body fat.

Yoga helps to burn calories, but I think It is difficult to perform yoga asanas for fat people. The persons who have too much weight can't perform yoga easily, but yoga helps us to be fit and slim. Yoga makes our body and mind healther and disease free. Yoga Asanas will also help us not to get extra fat and weight. But I don't think yoga is adviseble for peopel to get weight loss. Even the normall people also find difficult to perform yoga , it takes so much of time and patience to get the full asana.