About Bikram Yoga

Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is a demanding series of 26 classic yoga postures and breathing exercises. This series is suitable for all ages and levels of ability. It was scientifically designed to warm, stretch, and strengthen every muscle, ligament, tendon and joint, and to promote the development of a strong, lean, and more balanced body.

Bikram Yoga is done in a heated room to increase circulation and warm your muscles. The heat allows for a deeper workout, creates a cardiovascular benefit, prevents injury, and cleanses the body by flushing toxins. The Bikram Method also stimulates the organs, glands, and nerves, moving fresh oxygenated blood to 100 percent of the body, restoring all systems to a healthy working order. In addition, the series of postures combine skills of concentration, patience, determination, and self-control, which lead to increased mental clarity and reduced stress.

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, and soul.”

 Lock the knee! Lock the knee! Lock the knee!

That is the Bikram Choudhury shouting at you in one of his “Torture Chambers”. Bikram through experiment had learnt fifty years ago that the wrong way of doing any posture would not help you.

Bikram says, “If you follow my instruction and do my yoga posture sequence to the best of your ability, you will live a better, healthier, and more peaceful life.”

Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India™. Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram began Yoga at the age of four with India's most-renowned physical culturist at that time, Bishnu Ghosh, the younger brother of Paramahansa Yogananda (author of the most popular book on Yoga, The Autobiography of a Yogi, and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles).

Bikram practiced Yoga at least four to six hours every day at Ghosh's College of Physical Education in Calcutta. At the age of thirteen, he won the National India Yoga Championship. He was undefeated for the following three years and retired as the undisputed All-India National Yoga Champion.

At seventeen, an injury to his knee during a weight-lifting accident brought the prediction from leading European doctors that he would never walk again. Not accepting their pronouncement, he had himself carried back to Bishnu Ghosh's school, for he knew that if anyone could help to heal his knee, it was his teacher. Six months later, his knee had totally recovered. Ghosh was a celebrated physical culturist and the first to scientifically document Yoga's ability to cure chronic physical ailments and heal the body.

Bikram later on devised the 26 postures sequence, which works irrespective of age groups. These 26 postures series has a profound healing power on your body and mind. He founded Bikram’s Yoga College of India. Bikram has shown the light of healthy life to millions of people around the world.

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