Some one wants to burn calories and sometimes one just wants to take it easy. At YogaWorks in SoHo, two new classes -- "YogaWorks Slim" and "Candle Flow" just might provide the best of both worlds.YogaWorks Slim, led by instructor Anna Hughes-Dioguardi, is the interval-cardio style of yoga that is designed to speed up metabolism and stimulate weight loss. Poses in shorter intervals get the heart rate pumping."A high lunge, the whole point is strengthening the legs. High-lunge with arms lifted, strengthening the legs, opening up through the chest, so going up and going down helps to increase the heart rate," says Hughes-Dioguardi. "Plank pose, side plank strengthens the arms, abdominals, strengthens the belly. All of those intervals have the benefit of arm strengthening, belly strengthening, leg strengthening. And also, all the standing poses we are doing are very grounding."The intense exercise can be followed up with a bit of restoration. Slow-paced Candle Flow yoga poses are meant to destress and detoxify, including reclining hip and chest openers along with forward bends."According to the surgeon general, the best thing we can do for our health is relax," says Huges-Dioguardi. "Ten minutes of silence a day, it has been proven that it can make you happier in your life. And then also relaxation brings out who you really are."Huges-Dioguardi says one of the major benefits of trying Yoga Slim is that it prepares people to get to the relaxed state needed for the Candle Flow restorative practice."If you come in tense to a restorative class, it's hard to relax. So if you combine it with a Slim class, you get sweating and you work out all this stuff that you built throughout the day -- anxiety, tension, worry," says Hughes-Dioguardi. "So you kind of get that out of your system and then you're better, you're more able to relax."So to slim down and chill out, go for yoga.
Source:NY1
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