{"id":4216,"date":"2021-07-31T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:50:28","slug":"major-surprises-hiding-in-the-time-tested-sun-salutation-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/major-surprises-hiding-in-the-time-tested-sun-salutation-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Surprises Hiding In The Time-Tested Sun Salutation Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have been doing an in depth study of the effect of the Sun Salutation sequence. So what does that mean? I have been doing anywhere from 27-53 rounds of the foundational yoga sequence every day for a few weeks now. I started with 27 rounds per day, working my way up to 53. Why 53? I like prime numbers and it fits my workout time slot beautifully. This is an ancient sequence considered the foundation of asana practice. That being said, it has a lot of surprises hiding in it that I did not notice until I started this study. There will be a whole article coming on this in the future but here is the bullet point version so far.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>each round burns 13.9 calories (based on my own weight of about 150 lbs). So 53 rounds burns 736 calories. Wow! You can tell.<\/li>\n<li>It makes me feel really well balanced and strong in both body and energy.<\/li>\n<li>it calms my mind because I have to focus on keeping track. Simple mindfulness technique.<\/li>\n<li>The magic is as much in the transitions as in the poses.<\/li>\n<li>It promotes a precision mindset that lasts all day, benefiting everything else that I do.<\/li>\n<li>and more! As an athlete there is nothing better for recovery. Really!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will report out more later but for now, if you don\u2019t have any contraindications, give it a try!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post reporting the author&#8217;s personal study of the Sun Salutation yoga sequence\u2014doing 27 to 53 rounds daily\u2014and its surprising effects on calorie burn, balance, mental focus, and a precision mindset that carries through the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,1419,864,540,1625,1926,1781,357,1005,1003,1481,944,934,1454,1460,1002,43,1929,1927,865,371,879,354,1006,355,1004,372,358,1589,1928],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","tag-art","tag-business","tag-complete-connection","tag-connection","tag-consciousness","tag-consciousness-mastery","tag-couples","tag-cycle","tag-cycle-of-human-development","tag-finding-peace","tag-global-peace","tag-human-development","tag-kathryn-colleen","tag-lasting-peace","tag-lastingpeace-org","tag-life-optimization","tag-music","tag-personal","tag-podcasts","tag-purna-asatti","tag-religion","tag-roadmap","tag-seeing-yourself","tag-self-mastery","tag-self-development","tag-self-improvement","tag-spirituality","tag-stages","tag-understanding-people","tag-writing"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For yoga practitioners and the movement-curious, this shares one teacher's hands-on findings from a daily Sun Salutation study\u2014benefits for the body, mind, and focus\u2014and an encouragement to try it yourself.","citation_snippet":"Dr. Kathryn Messegee (Kathryn Colleen), \"Major Surprises Hiding In The Time-Tested Sun Salutation Sequence,\" https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/major-surprises-hiding-in-the-time-tested-sun-salutation-sequence\/","topics":["health","spirit"],"related_book":"","buy_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7436,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/7436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}