The beginning of Bikram yoga
Bikram Yoga is a system of yoga that Bikram Choudhury synthesized from traditional hatha yoga techniques and popularized beginning in the early 1970s. All Bikram yoga beginner series classes run for 90 minutes and consist of the same series of 26 postures, including two breathing exercises.Bikram Yoga is a hot yoga style, and is ideally practiced in a room heated to 35–42 °C (95–108 °F) with a humidity of 40%.
Yogiraj Choudhury – Yoga Master
Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India. Born in Calcutta in 1946. Bikram, through experimenting, learned fifty years ago that the wrong way of doing any posture would hurt a student’s well-being.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. Bikram has shown the light of healthy life to millions of people around the world
Benefits of Bikram yoga
It has been proved and experienced by millions that these 26 postures systematically work every part of the body, to give all the internal organs, all the veins, all the ligaments, and all the muscles everything they need to maintain optimum health and maximum function. Each component takes care of something different in the body, and yet they all work together synergistically, contributing to the success of every other one, and extending its benefits.
Bikram Yoga’s twenty-six posture exercises systematically move fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of your body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as nature intended. Proper weight, muscle tone, vibrant good health, and a sense of well being will automatically follow.
Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class is a twenty-six asana series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments, and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched.Â
Bikram Yoga – A blessing for life!
The Bikram’s yoga college provides workshops on the same and has studios for Bikram yoga where trainers certified by Bikram take yoga classes. Bikram’s yoga has found people sharing how their life has been blessed by it. Generally, what is found de-stressing has found people getting healed of Osteoarthritis of hips and lower back, spinal injury, rheumatoid arthritis.
Superheated yoga
He made his name and a £60 million fortune from superheated yoga in which devotees, including celebrities such as David Beckham, Lady Gaga, and Madonna, sweat through exercise routines in 105F heat. However, all this came to an end. Jafa-Bodden, A former employee she separated the yoga from the man who created it. In 2013, Jafa-Bodden filed a suit against Choudhury, alleging he had sexually harassed her. Last year, he was found guilty of wrongful termination, sexual harassment and breach of contract and Jafa-Bodden were awarded more than $7 million. In lieu of the $7 million Bikram has failed to pay Jafa-Bodden, and his refusal to return to the United States, the court has ordered that all income from Bikram’s studio franchises, as well as his intellectual property, be awarded to Jafa-Bodden. She still remains devoted to the Bikram community