Yoga for Weight Loss: Suzanne Deason

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Well, will wonders never cease! I went to bed at 7:30

pm and got up at 4:30 am to go to the gym for Cycling,

but my workout partner had a migraine and didn't sleep

last night so I decided to do Yoga for Weight Loss

this morning.

I've reviewed this one before, but I'll recap again

because I really like this one. Suzanne Deason

normally isn't a favorite instructor of mine simply

because she lacks warmth. Nonetheless, this is a

super video to do in the morning.

The music is gentle piano notes, and the setting is

somewhere in the desert with big monoliths/rocky

structures, like Bryce Canyon in Utah or something.

Suzanne is accompanied by 3 other exercisers

demonstrating various intensity options.

The first section focuses on waking up the body gently

with some seated spinal twists, cat and cow, and

hanging in rag doll coming up into chair. This is

normally easy to do later in the day when the bod has

been moving about all day long but first thing in the

morning my body is fairly rickety and even ragdoll can

be challenging!

During the second section there is some strength and

more stretching with Warrior 1, Warrior 2, side angle

stretch, and triangle pose. There was a pyramid

stretch and also there was also another spinal twist

while in wide leg stretch.

The third section is called Balance and Relaxation. I

didn't see where the balance came in, as this was

mostly seated lower back, abdominal, and spinal

stretch work, then shivasana.

All in all, a great beginner to lower intermediate

workout and a great workout to do first thing in the

morning!