Bikram Yoga

Bikram Yoga's twenty-six posture exercises move oxygenated blood to all percent of your body and restore all systems to healthy working order.



Bikram Yoga classes are held in a heated room which:

• permits greater flexibility,
• reduces the chance of muscle strain and injury
• promotes greater cleansing of the body, and
• helps build stamina and endurance.

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Generally a Bikram Yoga room is mirrored to ensure better body awareness and enhancing of postures through easy self-correction.

Bikram Yoga was created by Bikram Choudhury, a Yoga entrepreneur who moved from India to the US to teach yoga. He developed his own version of Hatha yoga after a knee injury.

Each Bikram session last 90 minutes. The first 60 minutes of a session is normally spent doing standing exercises, followed by 30 minutes of floor exercises. The routine includes Bikram Yoga positions such as the Half Moon Pose that strengthens your abdominals and helps with back pain. The Awkward pose that strengthens calves, thighs, and hips.

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