Bikram YogaBikram Yoga is a simple Hatha Yoga technique.
Hatha Yoga exists side-by-side with the 7 other limbs of Yoga. It is one facet of Yoga that is most concerned with energizing one’s body.
Bikram’s style of Yoga is a technique that is done in a hot room. Bikram Yoga consists of 26 postures and 22 breathing exercise.
It is fit for all ages and stages of life. Bikram Yoga is the most demanding, yet powerful and exciting sort of Hatha Yoga in the world today. Scientifically and methodically designed by Bikram Choudhury to warm up and stretch every joint, muscle, ligament, tendon, vertebrae and organ of the body down to the cellular level, all this is achieved in a way in which it should be ideally be done. By moving fresh blood and oxygen to all areas of the body, all of the systems of the body are restored. Every cell of your body is revived, reorganized, invigorated and restimulated! As a result you end up getting a healthy body and a healthy mind. Bikram Yoga is done in a hot room to avoid injury, allow for deep stretching and to promote release of toxins. The uneasiness experienced rapidly disappears with one’s ability to learn to breathe correctly and when one’s develops the ability to control one’s mind. As a matter of fact, the benefits of the heated room become addictive and you come to embrace them! Benefits of Bikram YogaBikram Yoga benefits are endless. Overall mental, physical and emotional health is improved. How fast one advances depends completely on the individual – on one’s ability, to a small extent. However a lot depends on the honest time and effort put into the practice. It has a lot to do with how "well" one performs the Bikram yoga poses. More has to do with how well one understands what one is trying to achieve, how sincerely one tries to achieve one’s goal and how supple one’s muscles and joints have become in comparison to when one had started. Bikram gives you not just the right instructions for each and every pose. He also tells you the facts. He tells you what problems you could encounter as you proceed, what tips and guidelines will help you progress faster, and where you could be tempted to "cheat," thus divesting yourself of the benefits of performing right. He explains poses in an easy, understandable and informative manner. |
