7-Week Weight Loss Challenge

7-Week Weight Loss Challenge

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Navigate yourself to the right skill level calendar, then follow along each day with your prescribed workout. Each day's workout for each level is located in the drop-down menu on the series page here! WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE 2020: This one is designed to help all abilities and all body shapes focus on weight loss through healthy activity and healthy lifestyle tips. Crafted with precise diligence, this collection is part of the "Best of Gaiam TV" series, and there will always be three distinct fitness levels to consider in each workout or practice. This design has two-workouts per-day as the default, a morning and afternoon session tailored to your level. The goal is to workout for at least 25 days per month, 22 at least. See if you can get two-a-day in, but always consult your physician to see if these exercises are correct for your body. Download one of the PDF calendars and choose your own adventure, marking off each workout that you complete on the calendar!

Healthy Tip #101: Having a fitness parter committed to the same journey and program format as you can increase your success rates, happiness, confidence, and overall well-being. Is there a friend or partner that might take the challenge with you? Simply texting back and forth that you've completed your workouts or practices for each day can amplify the accountability you seek to complete this challenge and see the results you are energized towards by even being on this digital page in the first place. Self-motivation and social-motivation can team up on this experience, use your talents, make your goals!

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7-Week Weight Loss Challenge
  • Beginners Practice

    Episode 1

    In this 20-minute class, you will be guided through essential yoga poses to create space and mobility. Focusing on alignment, you will learn how to observe how you feel inside your body. Practice regularly to remember that your body truly is a gift.

  • Guided Deep Relaxation

    Episode 2

    A laying down, guided relaxation practice that will clear your mind and allow your body to rest deeply. It is said this practice of yoga nidra is equivalent to 2 hours of deep sleep!

  • Guide to Yoga Twists

    Episode 3

    Learn the basics for safe and effective twists. Twists are great for restoring mobility to the spine, bringing healthy blood flow to the organs and creating balance in the whole body. Props: Towel/blanket.

  • Guide to Warrior Poses

    Episode 4

    This class breaks down the basics and essentials for Warrior 1, 2 and 3 poses as well as alternative variations of each. Learn exercises to help open parts of the body that may be limiting your ability in these poses. Props: Towel/blanket, 1-2 blocks

  • Guide to Balancing Poses

    Episode 5

    This class will teach you the foundational techniques you need to know to establish, build and advance your balancing poses. Learn proper foot alignment, how to engage the legs and hips in and find strength and freedom in your back. Props: chair, block

  • Anxiety Release Meditation

    Episode 6

    Use this 20-minute guided meditation for stress and anxiety to remind yourself that there is beauty to be found in moments of silence. Rather than thinking of meditation as a way to remove yourself from life, use it as a chance to immerse yourself in it.

  • Standing Moving Meditation

    Episode 7

    Enjoy a 15-minute moving meditation to help cultivate awareness so that you can be centered in the world. By getting familiar with each part of your body through gentle movement and articulation, you become aware of your entire body breathing and moving.

  • Seated Moving Meditation

    Episode 8

    Spend time examining the internal actions of the body that support you while seated. By moving the legs, arms, and spine while seated, you reveal the undulating patterns of movement that remain intact even when you are in the deep stillness of meditation.

  • Motivation for Meditation

    Episode 9

    What makes it a "meditation"? Do you have to be seated or walking? Rodney offers a meditation experience that clarifies the why & how of bringing eternal stillness to a moment of your time, through a practice that slows down reality for a pure glimpse.

  • AM Practice and Meditation

    Episode 10

    Start the day from a foundation of peace and centeredness with this morning class led by Rodney Yee. We will wake up the body with gentle asanas and breathing exercises and conclude the class with a 10 minute seated meditation practice.

  • Yin, the Path to Meditation

    Episode 11

    This yin practice from Doug Swenson is a moderate class designed to level out your body to bring peace to your mind.

  • Sweet Dreams

    Episode 12

    A yoga meditation to foster good dreams & restful, nourishing sleep. Rodney provides a foundation that allows you to access feelings without limitation, energy centers without draining them, all while you conduct your awareness into a deep slumber.

  • For Pain

    Episode 13

    Follow this 10-minute meditation for pain relief to bring awareness to your body and the location of your pain. By paying attention to the sensations and allowing yourself to be curious, you can begin to decrease your pain and start to enjoy a full life.

  • Find Your Seat

    Episode 14

    The first step to establishing a regular meditation practice is finding a comfortable sitting posture. Acclaimed teacher Rodney Yee shows you how to use props to support your body and alleviate discomfort as you find your meditation sit.

  • Find Your Breath

    Episode 15

    Feel your breath become the focus of your meditation practice with internationally acclaimed yoga teacher Rodney Yee. Instead of controlling your breath, learn how to receive and release it so it becomes an anchor for your mind to steady itself on.

  • Quiet Your Mind

    Episode 16

    Drop into the present moment and feel more centered and relaxed. Rodney Yee shows you how to cultivate awareness in your meditation practice by following your breath, observing sensations in your body, and noticing the fluctuations of your mind.

  • For Peace

    Episode 17

    What if conflict is an illusion that stems from something that is whole being divided into two parts? Use this powerful 10-minute meditation to learn to receive the world as it is, learning to better understand who you are and where your boundaries lie.

  • Meditation at Work

    Episode 18

    In this workplace-appropriate meditation guided by master teacher Rodney Yee, you will do a full-body scan, tuning into the sensations arising in different parts the body, and learn to accept your present experience just as it is.

  • Meditation for Emotional Balance

    Episode 19

    A short, yet extremely effective practice to help you find a sense of steadiness in the midst of fluctuating emotions.

  • Meditation for Stressful Days

    Episode 20

    Learn to find an inner state of calm that can transform your stress into power.

  • Meditation for Loneliness

    Episode 21

    A meditation practice that immediately takes you back to the remembrance that you are not alone and that you are always supported and connected to those you love.

  • Fall Asleep Easily

    Episode 22

    Ease your mind and prepare for sleep with this relaxing, prop-supported practice guided with Rodney Yee. Have two blocks, a bolster, a blanket, and a chair nearby for this practice.

  • Meditation Bonus

    Episode 23

    Yoga master Rodney Yee guides you in a short, but effective meditation to inspire and energize you - anytime, anywhere.

  • Day 5: Calm Down

    Episode 24

    Relax and release tension and stress. Yoga master Rodney Yee guides you in a gentle practice designed to ease the body into a state of deep rest while quieting the mind.