Yoga for Weight Loss

This yin and yang express practice will have you work the core, hips, and legs to warm up the body quickly. You will be familiar with the poses, so focus on breathing to find heat as you move. Expect to get a little bit of a challenge with some playful poses.

You will finish this 20 minute class more yoked than when you started! Get ready for some heavy lifting combined with resistance band work to help you feel your absolute strongest.

Booty Camp 2 is the long anticipated sequel to Booty Camp. Get ready to werk your way to more perky buns in just 30 minutes. You will feel the burn right away and leave your mat feeling stronger and more confident than ever!

Get ready for your wedding day, or ANY important day, with this FREE 20 minute Bride Bod workout. This class will kick your butt and have you sweating more than you thought you could in 20 mins! Whether you're a bride to be, or need to quickly get into your best shape for any important day, this 20 minute full-body workout will leave you looking and feeling your very best!

This 20 minute Cardio Express class will leave you feeling stronger (and sweatier) than ever. Get ready to move your body and sweat a couple gallons. Bring your water!

'Note, this is a cardio class that does not involve yoga, but it's a perfect complement to your yoga practice, for when you want to work up a sweat and elevate your heart rate.

Get ready to BURN BABY BURN! Your legs will feel stronger than ever after this 20 minute burner. Get ready to feel stronger, from the inside out! This high-energy and playful fitness class, will move through different leg and lower body strength and cardio exercises, and give your body and energy levels a boost.

Your inner thighs and core will never be the same after this class! Get ready to strengthen, tone, and sweat - we really get into the inner thighs and burn the core at the same time. You're going to love it!

Get ready for a full body fun time! This class will have you sweating and shedding those lbs in no time. Bring a towel and maybe a friend! Have fun!

Prepare for another full body workout party! You will sweat, tone, and burn in all the right places and utilize a variety of strengthening and plyometric routines. You're going to love it!

Get ready to sweat. This short, powerful workout combines yoga flow and sculpting circuits sure to lift your heart rate and push you to the limits. Enjoy the anaerobic intervals between the calming vinyasa flow!

Ready to shed those extra lbs from the holidays (or any other day for that matter)? Get ready for a full body BLAST of cardio, strength training, and core tightening. This class will not disappoint and will surely leave you in a puddle of your own sweat.

Ready to strengthen, lengthen, and tone while increasing your heart rate and changing your body from the inside out? Prepare yourself for maximum calorie burn and muscle strengthening in this super high intensity class!

This class will blast and BURN your upper body. Get ready to rock out and TONE your arms and shoulders. The class will still get your heart rate up and work your entire body, and there are even a few options for some booty work as well!

Get ready to tone and work your ENTIRE body! Be prepared to work from the front to the back of your mat and work that bod from head to toe...bring a towel, you're going to sweat!

This Qi yoga with weights class focuses intensively on the arms and shoulders, as the main exercise for the class will be Chaturanga. There will be several sequences of Chaturanga isolations, which will help you to achieve core stability in addition to strength through the upper body. You will need a set of 3 or 5 lb hand weights for this class. Have a towel handy to sop up the puddles of sweat!

This class is designed to tone and work your glutes! Get ready to sweat and feel the burn on your backside!

Get ready to build some serious core strength in this 20-minute abs blaster! You will use a block and weights to get deep into the core from every angle possible. This is a VERY challenging abs class, so come prepared to feel the burn, feel your belly and whole body tremble, and sweat!

Looking to build your way up to Becca's crazy-hard 60 min classes? We designed this class to give you a great and intense workout, but in only 30 minutes so it's more accessible if you're just starting out with weights classes or adding cardio to your yoga practice. This class is also perfect if you love the longer lengths, but are short on time. You'll still get an excellent blend of toning, stretching and cardio all rolled into one rockin' 30 minutes session.

If this is still a bit too much you could always start with Becca's 20 min Mini Bootcamp Class and then work your way up from there to this 30 min class. 45 min Builder Bootcamp coming soon!

*please note this class was previously titled "30 min Builder Class".

Another installment of our HardCORE Yoga with Weights classes, and this one is a doozie! This time while completely kicking your butt Becca focuses on poses and moves designed to target your oblique muscles - better known as those pesky love handles. You''ll still get a TON of strength training, cardio, and stretching, just get ready to WORK your abs and sides of your core. This is the kind of class where you will see immediate results, and with continued use and combined with our other HardCORE Yoga classes, you'll truly be in the best shape of your life in record time. Get ready to work, get ready to sweat, get ready to change your body!

Our HardCORE Yoga with Weights classes are designed to be the hardest classes you'll ever take!

Want burn? And then MORE burn?! And then a TON of burn on top of that?! This HardCORE Yoga with Weights™ 2 class combines yoga, strength training, and some serious cardio to get your body into incredible shape in record time. If you're looking to get the very most out of your time spent on the mat, look no further. Becca wastes no time and packs a ton of both traditional and super creative moves into this one hour class. Truly a complete workout that will leave you breathless (in more ways than one). Get ready for a serious challenge, get ready to have fun, and get ready to SWEAT (definitely have a towel handy, or two, or possibly even three)!!

For this class you'll need a set of hand weigths. Ladies - start with around 3 lbs if you're new to this, and if you're ready to see what you're made of, go for 6-8 lbs. Men - your call!

This could very well be the hardest class you've ever taken in your life!!

Get ready to FEEL THE BURN!!! This HardCORE Yoga with Weights™ class will challenge you like nothing you've ever experienced before. Get the VERY most out of your hour on the mat. Perfect for those looking for weight loss and/or major muscle toning. Becca guides and pushes you through challenging core exercises, isometrics, cardio drills, toning, and yoga flow. Definitely have a towel handy, or two, or possibly even three!

At last, you can get the intense calorie burn you want, without sacrificing the elements of yoga you love. Xen Strength® strategically incorporates light weights into a playful vinyasa flow, for a program designed to sculpt, lengthen, and challenge, every muscle group.

In this video, Xen Strength® founder, Danielle Diamond, guides you through each pose with precise alignment cues and detailed demonstration. She inspires you to work toward your edge and challenge yourself, while still honoring your current skill level.

Filmed in an intimate studio setting, this program allows you to deepen your practice in the privacy and convenience of your own home, as if receiving private instruction from Danielle.

Xen Strength seamlessly integrates the five essential training elements recommended by fitness professionals: flexibility, strength, balance, core and aerobic fitness.

Proven Results You Can Expect From This Powerhouse Combination:

• Increased endurance and energy

• Increased muscle mass and bone density

• Increased flexibility and mental focus

Video Includes:

• 3 segments that can stand-alone or be combined for a 60 minute, all-over body transforming routine:

1. A rigorous warm up prepares you for a blasting upper-body and core strength training session

2. Intense core moves deliver balance training, functional fitness, and a slimming, detox, twist routine.

3. The bottom line routine melts inches off your glutes, lifts your butt and lengthens and tones your legs, ending with a restorative and much needed cool down to slow down your heart rate and calm your mind.

- Includes modifications for beginners

- equipment needed: a yoga mat and light hand weights

**Click here to download the pose guide for this class


**Xen Strength has been featured on: The Dr. Oz Show, Today Show, SELF Magazine, her future, Anna Magazine, YouBeauty.com, Your Bella Life and Everything Bobbi.


"Danielle is one of a kind. She lights up a room and has great energy which is incredibly infectious. Her classes are terrific and her new technique incorporating weights with yoga is genius. She is the perfect combination of both tough and gentle." ~ Bobbi Brown, Founder and CEO, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics


Created by: Danielle Diamond
Directed by: Alex Coletti Photography by: Monika Broz
Music by Mambo Music/ Paul Weinberg
Fitness Consultant: John Nostro

For more information and online yoga videos go to WWW.XENSTRENGTHYOGA.COM

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 72 minutes

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This is the second class in Dawnelle's Yoga for Weight Loss series. This class is for the intermediate to advanced student and will definitely have you working up a sweat! Dawnelle creatively uses chin locks to help stimulate the thyroid gland - an important gland that deals with metabolism and weight control - and works to increase the heart rate and create heat in the body to help you burn fat and increase muscle mass. This is a challenging and vigorous class that will work as a great tool to help you lose weight and keep it off, all while toning and sculpting your body and creating lean muscle mass throughout the entire body.

Note: Dawnelle's style of teaching has and continues to evolve since this class was recorded. Please also try her more recent style of yoga, Qi Yoga.

This second offering in the Yoga Sculpt series promises to leave you plenty sweaty, and feeling like you've gotten the most complete head-to-toe workout possible. After an ample warm up, weights are incorporated into the class to act as your personal adjustors and take your practice to the next level. Not only will you tone and sculpt every muscle group, but your stretches will be taken deeper than ever before. This class is a total body workout that will leave a lasting impression!

This Yoga Sculpt class uses weights throughout to help sculpt and tone your body as you stretch and move through your yoga poses. Dawnelle is the master of creative flows, and she comes up with amazing ways to incorporate weight training into her flow series'. You will be worked and sweat like nothing else from this class! This is one of the more challenging classes available on our site! Enjoy!

Note: Dawnelle's style of teaching has and continues to evolve since this class was recorded. Please also try her more recent style of yoga, Qi Yoga.