answer:I started following a guru called Mooji who has a number of videos on YouTube, and up also attended a retreat he conducted. The point wasn’t to lose weight, but as a result of making it a practice, I was able to feed my body instead of everything else and dropped 30 pounds in six months. Often, I’d go to sleep and wake up a half pound lighter. I did a little running, but it wasn’t nearly as influential. Probably more influential was the change in diet I was able to make toward more brown rice and veggies. I ate very simply and stopped caring about taste. I also lapsed here and there and ate fast food (most recently for a monthlong stretch), but overall the weight came off with a lot less effort than I imagined. I would call the practice of an inner yoga. Back when I did physical yoga, I just felt good in my body and elongating my spine in the off hours out of habit.