7-Week Weight Loss Challenge
50 Seasons
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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06:35Episode 1
Your First Yoga Class
Episode 1
Feeling intimidated about taking a yoga class? Don't be! Everyone was a beginner once and Ashleigh shares all the things you need to know when planning to attend your first yoga class.
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19:12Episode 2
Easy Neck & Shoulders
Episode 2
Learn powerful tools to loosen the tight areas around the neck and shoulders that can cause restricted movement, headaches and fatigue. These practices can be used again and again to release stress and tension in order to find freedom and space.
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23:03Episode 3
Easy Back & Legs
Episode 3
Explore yoga postures to strengthen and lengthen the muscles of the legs in order to find stability and freedom in the low back. Use these movements regularly to build power and flexibility.
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15:32Episode 4
Creating a Healthy Yoga Habit
Episode 4
Some habits are for survival, some are luxurious, & some habits are just plain bad. Rodney shows you that yoga can be a habit that enriches your human experience, a discipline that pays you back for the time & effort you commit to its practice.
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15:40Episode 5
Restorative Ease into Sleep
Episode 5
The gift of practicing restorative poses is sometimes too scarce in most yoga practices. It can be perplexing to give yourself permission to restore, which in a sense, can feel like admitting you are defeated. Rodney arranges a way for you to give in.
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17:42Episode 6
Guided Deep Relaxation
Episode 6
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!
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11:26Episode 7
Meditation for Stressful Days
Episode 7
Learn to find an inner state of calm that can transform your stress into power.
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11:27Episode 8
Meditation for Emotional Balance
Episode 8
A short, yet extremely effective practice to help you find a sense of steadiness in the midst of fluctuating emotions.
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15:23Episode 9
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.
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15:27Episode 10
Find Your Breath
Episode 10
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.
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58:26Episode 11
AM Practice and Meditation
Episode 11
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.
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1:12:04Episode 12
Qigong for Beginners
Episode 12
The fundamentals of Qigong, an ancient Chinese health care system can be described as meditation with movement; a conscious form of exercise. It is not just physical exercise, but a transformative and holistic health care system.
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12:53Episode 13
Meditation for Loneliness
Episode 13
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.