Does yoga breathwork stimulate weight loss?

[Guest guest]

I have been led to believe that yoga breathwork can help to supress

one's appetite and even help to stimulate weight loss. Is this

true? Are certain techniques better than others? If so, which ones

are they and how are they performed? Or is simply doing proper

diaphragmatic breathing enough? What is the theory behind the

weight loss benefit (if it is indeed true)?

 

--Diana F.

[Guest guest]

It's not about "suppression".......read on

 

"Meditating is a sort of eating, a consumption of subtle energies which

are digested by the mind's subtle digestive fire. Meditation is a

critical element of all daily programs because it satisfies the mind's

hunger. Insufficient or improper meditation keeps the mind hungry, and

makes it turn outward through its sense organs to seek satisfaction from

sense objects, including especially physical food. Use of food to

satisfy the mind alone without consideration for the body always leads

to disease. Good meditation nourishes the organism so thoroughly that

the body can maintain itself on less food. Control of desire, which is

mental hunger, is the key to longevity and immortality. Anything can be

a meditation, as long as it is sincere and heartfelt."

 

-- Robert Svoboda

from "Prakruti", page. 102

 

Diana Foster wrote:

 

> I have been led to believe that yoga breathwork can help to suppress

> one's appetite and even help to stimulate weight loss. Is this

> true? Are certain techniques better than others? If so, which ones

> are they and how are they performed? Or is simply doing proper

> diaphragmatic breathing enough? What is the theory behind the

> weight loss benefit (if it is indeed true)?

>

> --Diana F.