WHAT IS BIKRAM YOGA?
Bikram Yoga is a series of 26 beginner's postures and 2 breathing exercises performed in sequence in a heated room for 90 minutes. Bikram Yoga is suitable for all ages and levels of ability. Each posture stretches, strengthens, and prepares the body to work every muscle, organ, gland, and cell in the perfect order, while circulating 100% fresh oxygen through the blood. The result is a natural full-body exercise that returns the body to a balanced state.
Bikram scientifically designed the series to promote weight loss, prevent illness, and limit the effects of aging. Yoga also builds energy, stamina, and flexibility. It incorporates challenge, gravity, balance, strength, and most importantly, the tourniquet effect. The Bikram technique allows for stretching, squeezing, and massaging of the internal organs, flushing out the lymphatic system, and stimulating the endocrine and nervous system to release any deficient hormones and enzymes. The body is self-regulating and self-adjusting. In addition, the series of postures combines skills of concentration, patience, determination and self-control, which lead to increased mental clarity and reduced stress.
Bikram's Yoga is done in a room heated to 40ºC to warm your muscles and cleanse the body, through sweating, to flush out all unwanted toxins. The heat also relieves one's body resistance to allow for deeper stretching without risking injury. As Bikram says, "Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind or soul." The 26 postures, much like the alphabet, cannot be changed in any manner, or the series simply does not work. Please make sure to attend schools labeled Bikram's Yoga College of India for authenticity.
Bikram Yoga is a series of 26 beginner's postures and 2 breathing exercises performed in sequence in a heated room for 90 minutes. Bikram Yoga is suitable for all ages and levels of ability. Each posture stretches, strengthens, and prepares the body to work every muscle, organ, gland, and cell in the perfect order, while circulating 100% fresh oxygen through the blood. The result is a natural full-body exercise that returns the body to a balanced state.
Bikram scientifically designed the series to promote weight loss, prevent illness, and limit the effects of aging. Yoga also builds energy, stamina, and flexibility. It incorporates challenge, gravity, balance, strength, and most importantly, the tourniquet effect. The Bikram technique allows for stretching, squeezing, and massaging of the internal organs, flushing out the lymphatic system, and stimulating the endocrine and nervous system to release any deficient hormones and enzymes. The body is self-regulating and self-adjusting. In addition, the series of postures combines skills of concentration, patience, determination and self-control, which lead to increased mental clarity and reduced stress.
Bikram's Yoga is done in a room heated to 40ºC to warm your muscles and cleanse the body, through sweating, to flush out all unwanted toxins. The heat also relieves one's body resistance to allow for deeper stretching without risking injury. As Bikram says, "Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind or soul." The 26 postures, much like the alphabet, cannot be changed in any manner, or the series simply does not work. Please make sure to attend schools labeled Bikram's Yoga College of India for authenticity.
