Best Yoga Asanas To Prevent Belly Fat

Yoga is just not for relaxing but also for many other health-related benefits. It can even help you in reducing belly fat like magic by targetting your abdomen area, burning calories, providing flexibility, and improving metabolism. Let’s check out such asanas.

1. Shavasana (Corpse Pose)

It is modern yoga as exercise often used for relaxation at the end of a session.

Procedure:

• Lie down and relax the shoulders taking your arms 15cm away from your body.

• Straighten the arms and let your feet relax with closed eyes

• Keep your legs apart, letting knees and toes relax comfortably

• Taking attention to each part of your body, try moving it slowly one by one

• Keep breathing slowly and gently without any worries

• After about 10-20minutes when you feel fully relaxed, keeping your eyes closed, slowly roll onto your right side. Lie in that position for a minute or so. Then, taking the support of your right hand, gently sit up into a seated pose.

2. Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation)

It is a combination of twelve yoga positions each having a different impact on the body.

Procedure:

• Stand with an expanded chest and relaxed shoulders.

• Inhale while lifting both the arms and bring the arms to the front of your chest and keep them in prayer position 

• Inhale and raise your hands and stretch them backward

• Exhale, bend forward and try to touch your forehead with your knees

• Now, bend your right knee and take your left leg backward with your palms placed on the floor

• Come to the tips of the toes, move forward where the hips are slightly elevated, and take the entire torso in one plane down towards the floor.

• Inhale, stretch forward and bend backward keeping your hands fixed on the floor

• Inhale and bring your right leg forward in between your elbows and stretch them upwards

• Bringing your left leg forward inhale deeply

• Stretch back to the waist and return to starting position

3. Tadasana (Mountain Pose)

It is a simple ideal warm-up pose. It improves the circulation of blood and activates the core and peripheral areas.

Procedure:

• Stand with your feet slightly apart making sure that your weight is balanced equally on both feet.

• Inhale and raise your arms above your head, and interlock your fingers with palms facing upwards.

• take your shoulders towards your ears and exhale and roll your shoulders back near your spine

• Relax all your muscles and come back to a normal position.

4. Naukasana (Boat Pose)

This makes the circulation of blood and oxygen around the abdomen and lowers back at a time much faster.

Procedure:

• Lie on the ground with both your feet straight and your palm on either side.

• Inhale and lift your chest and feet off the ground as you exhale stretching your arms towards your feet. You’ll feel the tension in your stomach area as the abdominal muscles contract.

• Put all your weight on buttocks and hold your breath. Remain in this position for a few seconds.

• Exhale and slowly bring your body down from the initial position and relax

5. Pavanamuktasana (wind Relieving Pose)

This asana helps in alleviating various gastric problems.

Procedure: 

• Lie down with a flat back and legs straight with your hands by your sides and palm down.

• Gradually inhale and raise both your legs and bring your thighs close to your chest as you bend the knees

• Exhale and lift your head up bringing the nose close to your knees.

• Hold on to this position for a couple of seconds and return back to the initial position.