30 Day Yoga for Weight Loss with Julia Marie

Welcome to the 30 day yoga challenge! Throughout this series you will burn calories, build muscle and create healthy habits that will help you keep the weight off and live more optimally. In addition to the workouts you will find bonus tips at the end of each video to help you stay on track.

Sometimes we lack motivation to get fit or to work out or to indulge in the self care practices that we need. Throughout this 30 day program you will begin to develop the tools you need to not only go through this 30 days feeling really fit, but to develop habits that you need to live the life you want.

This video is all about awakening your inner warrior, so if you're new to yoga and you're starting to utilize yoga for your weight loss plan, this video has the poses you need to start to stimulate those calories torching muscles in your legs and glutes. This video will also get you feeling more confident and fit in your body

In this video you're going to amp up your flow by understanding what it means to flow breath with movement. You'll get all the benefits of cardio, increasing muscle mass, and how to dive into brain training, which is essential if you're wanting to stick with any positive habit in your life

In today's video you will go through some gentle movement and meditation. Most of the time when we think about weight loss, we have these visions of having to work ourselves to exhaustion to get to our goals, and that's not true. In fact working yourself to exhaustion everyday is a great way to get burnt out and to never reach your goals.

Physical activity increases circulation and releases endorphins which give you more stamina and energy. Over time, a habit of consistent physical exercise will strengthen your heart, and help you utilize oxygen more efficiently leading to more energy all the time!

When you know you're short on time, focus on efficiency and intensity. Focus on the muscles of the metabolism (legs, glutes, chest) and incorporate intense bursts of work. Intensity and time are inversely related

Sometimes when we are stressed out the discomfort of exercise can feel a lot worse than it is. Essentially our fight or flight mode might be out of whack, and we're making mountains out of molehills because our nervous system is on hyperdrive. It's important to take time for gentle self-care practices so that you can reset, recharge, and have a more realistic and balanced approach to the exercise

We cannot spot-tone our body. But we can examine our overall habits, and where our body tends to store fat. Belly fat may be a genetically influenced fat-holding pattern, but it is also influenced by high levels of cortisol. In order to reduce overall fat percentage in the body you must both exercise to build lean muscle, and have an honest look at your diet to ensure that you are fueling up.

Day 9 is all about the glutes and yoga is perfect for that. When you build large muscle groups like our quads and glutes you are increasing your metabolism, so more muscle means we burn more fat. This is perfect for anybody who is embarking on a new yoga or fitness program, you'll feel stable, strong and your metabolism will be working just as it's supposed to.

Day 10 is all about detoxing, so a lot of twists and a lot of heat! Doing twists in yoga is super beneficial for digestion, toning the midsection & for having a healthy spine. This one is a tough one and you will definitely feel the burn.

This video focuses on the upper body, chest, arms & back. As you may have noticed from the past few videos, yoga does require upper body strength, but it can be a great way to get to know your upper body, build strength and get the lean arms that have definition and muscle tone that you'll wanna show off.

Today's flow is a special yoga and HIIT combo. You're going to have the awesome toning benefits of yoga, mixed with the high intensity intervals that are going to give you an amazing cardio workout that is going to torch calories and increase your burn tomorrow and the day after that.

Today's flow is a gentle one to reset your body after quite a few days of heavy work. Why do we need rest days? We need to stretch out our joints, promote healthy muscles and we need to balance our effort and ease. Stretching resets your muscles so that they're less prone to injury

If you've been following for the past 2 weeks you might be noticing how strong your body is getting, but you might also be noticing that the gains you were getting in the beginning is starting to taper off, so this amped up flow is exactly what you need for muscle confusion, which is essential for continuing your fat burn and losing weight

This flow continues on from the last one increasing the challenge with a balance flow. Balance is essential for any workout or yoga regimen so that you tone your legs, you fire up those big burner muscles and that you're also getting those stabilizer muscles, these are the muscles you want to target if you're working on agility, balance and you want to take your fitness to the next level

You made it past the half way point! To celebrate, in todays video you're going to learn how to tackle a really fun pose; crow pose. Crow pose is an arm balance, but don't let the name deceive you, whilst you will tone and strengthen your upper body, you will also dig deep into the core as you know those are the muscles you absolutely need no matter what physical practice you're doing.

After yesterdays class, this one is a treat. Some relief for all those arm balances in your neck and shoulders. Feeling tight and tense in your shoulders is a common problem, and if you find yourself as one of those people suffering then this video is going to be perfect for you.

Today's flow is all about backbends. So all that shoulder opening you did in the previous video is going to be tremendously helpful as you get into your backbends. Why do backbends? Well if you spend most of your day slumped over at a computer it's going to improve your posture, help you feel more open, increase your mood and help you have more energy

In this video you're going to do endurance intervals, it's still high intensity interval training, but your intervals are going to be 45 seconds long and your rest portions are going to be 15 seconds. As this is yoga meets HIIT, you will be warming up with some yoga moves

This practice is a beautiful practice to help nourish your joints, balance your body and to help you get really restful sleep, which as you know is essential for your health. So as you move through this practice focus on softening your body, deepening your breath and really relaxing into every pose

This video is an amped up cardio flow. This is going to be a yoga flow where you go through your sun salutations, but you're going to add some spice to them, so every time you go through a round of sun A or sun B you'll have a little moment to get a cardio or a fitness burst in there. This will help increase your stamina, help you burn calories and leave you feeling strong

Today's class is all about twists and side bends. These are movements we don't typically do in our day, so our brain loves it when we take one side of our body and cross it over the other, it helps us with our coordination, balance, and when it comes to our weight loss goals it helps us tighten and tone the midsection

Day 23 is another power yoga HIIT workout, with some added belly fat burning at the end of the video, but the main focus is going to be sculpting the upper shoulders and back. Whenever we're working with our lower body and our upper body that just revs up our metabolism even more. So this video is packed with a ton of burning exercises in a short amount of time

After yesterdays intense shoulder work, this video is going to help you open those shoulders, help you get great posture and when doing some of the backbend exercises in this video you'll also be giving your hormones a boost, making you feel alert, awake and confident

Day 25 is a special deep burn flow. If you've been following this 30 day journey, this is a critical video for you to watch so that you start to learn how to get deep into those muscles, especially your stabilizer muscles that are going to help you feel strong in your body. As you go through this flow you're going to hold those poses for a while so you're going to really feel the burn

Agility is our ability to move swiftly but with control and a lot of balance, which means today's video has a lot of core work, but it's not the traditional crunches, you're going to be targeting the deep core muscles that help stabilize your spine and help you have awesome posture

In this video you're going to be mixing high intensity with flow. You're going to be combining moves that ignite those big burner muscles and boost metabolism with those stabilizer muscles that help you feel strong and agile. This workout is also endurance intervals so you'll be pushing yourself to the edge

Yin Yoga is modeled after the same meridian lines that you might work on in acupuncture. Today's video focuses on the liver and gallbladder meridians, that doesn't mean you'll be working on those organs specifically but you'll be working on those meridian lines. You'll also be working on stretching out those muscles that might be feeling a little tight and tense from the previous workout

You're almost there, day 29! This one is a total body power flow, so everything is moving from head to toe. When you're doing yoga moves that incorporate the lower body as well as the upper body that increases your ability to burn calories and get your big muscles going, it's also great for your cardiovascular system to continuously keep moving

You made it! Day 30! The final workout is a HIIT yoga fusion that you should be used to by now. You'll definitely feel the burn and afterwards you'll be feeling great!