bikram yoga

Bikram Yoga is a copyright of yoga exponent Bikram Choudhury of Los Angeles. Having trained in the art of hatha yoga in India, he has been in the US for four decades and his yoga centers are spread across the world. Known as ‘Hot Yoga’ or Fire yoga, a development initiated by him keeping the western practitioners in mind, is popular in the US coast to coast.

Bikram Yoga is hot

Hot yoga, based on hatha yoga techniques, is practiced in a room heated at 100F with a humidity of 40%. Bikram operates out of LA where Bikram Yoga College of India is headquartered. With nearly 500 studios worldwide and new centers coming up regularly, Bikram Yoga teachers require training and certification at his facilities to operate centers anywhere in the world. In recent years, other yoga exponents hotly debate his version of Hot Yoga citing Yoga’s ancient origins that predate all copyrights.

When the temperature is set at 100F with 40% humidity range, the yogic activity gets vigorous leading to sweating. Sweating gets the toxins out of the body and the heat makes the body warm enough for the flexibility required for performing the postures of Hot Yoga. Consisting of 26 very rigorous postures formulated by Bikram with 2 breathing exercises thrown in, the blood, lungs, body muscles and mind get ramped up. According to him, most of us don’t make use of our lungs fully. Performing the exercises energizes the lungs and makes it fit to take in more oxygen.

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Body is rid of toxins and rejuvenated

His exercises are based on the principal of extension and compression of the limbs and organs of the body. As every exercise extends and compresses a part of the body, blood circulation to the area is cut off temporarily. Automatically, the heart responds to the shortage. It pumps more blood to the area and the arteries are filled with a fresh circulation of blood. Naturally, the organs and limbs that were stretched get a fresh supply of blood. Participants end up feeling fresh and bubbling with a new found energy as their overall body gets rejuvenated. The fresh dose of blood cleanses the systems and washes off the toxins, infection or bacteria that the body was harboring.

With loads of oxygen filled blood in your system, you emerge from the 90 minute Bikram Yoga session a changed person. Toxins are the cause of various diseases that can turn life threatening in the long run. Cleansing our body helps take care of obesity and delays the onset of old age. Coupled with 2 breathing exercises, this variety of Yoga performed under hot conditions aid in releasing a great amount of sweat which releases a lot of unwanted materials from our body. It does not involve any chemical oriented drugs or medicines, but plain and simple workouts on the body and mind to rev it up.

Primarily, the debate and lawsuits resulted more from the threat of alternative, safe and effective method of exercises based on ancient yoga techniques rather than deviations from it. Overall health of body and mind is the basis of Bikram Yoga.

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