Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm a yoga teacher, a teacher trainer, a serial

entrepreneur. I'm the father of three kids. First and foremost, I'm a student. I like

to learn things so I got into the world and I try to find people researching, writing

books, medical doctors, holistic health practitioners, all of the above to have them come here on

the show to share their best work. So we hopefully live more inspired lives. This week is a departure

from that. This is a solo show. I've been getting an unusual amount of requests, although

they usually come in around this time of the year, about weight loss and yoga specifically.

So I thought I'd do a special show. We have certainly talked a lot about food, but we

haven't talked about published research and we haven't talked about how yoga actually

works for weight loss, which is a little bit counterintuitive, meaning the movement and

breathing and stress relief practices in and around a yoga practice. If you'd like to support

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Yoga Body. Lastly, if you'd like to submit a question for the show, you can always do that

at my Instagram handle, which is at Lucas Rockwood. Let's jump into it. Does yoga work for

weight loss? Let me preface this with a little story I lived in Hong Kong in 2005. I worked

at a big yoga studio called Pure Yoga, which still exists. In fact, it's probably one of

the larger yoga studios in the world. They made a move to the US. I think they have a few

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