Calories burned yoga calculator
What a yoga session burns for your body, by style.
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Your result
For an hour of yoga (Hatha) at 65 kg:
85extra kcal
On top of the 55 kcal you’d burn anyway in that time. In total it uses about 140 kcal.
In your TDEE it counts as about 60–85 kcal. The low end allows for the body offsetting about 28% of exercise calories, the average in a study of 1,754 adults.
Calories burned yoga: the key numbers
- An hour of yoga adds about 85 to 200 extra kcal for a 65 kg person, depending on the style.
- An hour of yoga (Hatha) adds about 85 extra kcal at 65 kg and 130 at 100 kg.
- The figures come from 5 rows of the 2024 Compendium of Physical Activities, from 2.3 to 4 METs: 4 from published studies and one the Compendium’s own estimate.
- Done on purpose, it counts in your TDEE at 72 to 100% of these extra calories, because the body offsets part of what exercise uses (Careau, 2021).
Counting it in your TDEE
If you do this on purpose, add it as exercise on the TDEE calculator. It counts there at 72 to 100% of these extra calories, because the body offsets part of what exercise uses.
For your body and time
| Activity | Extra kcal | Compendium value |
|---|---|---|
| Hatha | 85 | 2.3 METs, Compendium code 02150 |
| Vinyasa | 110 | 2.7 METs, Compendium code 02185 |
| Hot yoga | 130 | 3 METs, Compendium code 02155 |
| Sun salutations | 170 | 3.5 METs, Compendium code 02180 |
| Power yoga | 200 | 4 METs, Compendium code 02160, an estimate |
| Pilates | 120 | 2.8 METs, Compendium code 02105 |
| Walking: Moderate (3 mph, 5 km/h) | 190 | 3.8 METs, Compendium code 17190 |
Each figure uses the activity’s cost from the 2024 Compendium of Physical Activities, which gives it in METs of oxygen use per kg of body weight, so the extra scales with your weight. The Compendium marks “Power yoga” as an estimate; its other values here come from published studies. Only the part above resting counts as extra. What you’d burn anyway comes from your own resting rate (Mifflin-St Jeor), not the standard 1 MET: in 769 adults, measured resting burn averaged 0.84 kcal per kg an hour against the standard 1 (Byrne, 2005).
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Short answers
How many calories does yoga burn?
It depends on the style, and on your weight. For a 65 kg woman, an hour adds about 85 kcal (Hatha) up to about 200 (power yoga) on top of what she’d burn anyway. For a 100 kg man it’s about 130 to 310.
Does hot yoga burn more calories?
Yes. An hour of hot yoga adds about 130 kcal for a 65 kg woman, against about 85 for Hatha. Power yoga comes out highest, about 200, though the Compendium marks that value as its own estimate.
Should I eat back the calories from yoga?
Partly. In a study of 1,754 adults, the body offset about 28% of the calories burned through activity, on average (Careau, 2021). So when an hour of yoga adds about 85 kcal for a 65 kg woman, count about 60–85 of it.
Sources
Checked against each source on 22 and 23 October 2026
- Herrmann SD, et al. (2024). 2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities: a third update of the energy costs of human activities. J Sport Health Sci 13(1):6–12. PMID 38242596
- Byrne NM, et al. (2005). Metabolic equivalent: one size does not fit all. J Appl Physiol 99(3):1112–9. PMID 15831804
- Careau V, et al. (2021). Energy compensation and adiposity in humans. Curr Biol 31(20):4659–66. PMID 34453886
- Mifflin MD, St Jeor ST, et al. (1990). A new predictive equation for resting energy expenditure in healthy individuals. Am J Clin Nutr 51(2):241–7. PMID 2305711