About Bikram Yoga

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Bikram Choudhury doing the Toe Stand Pose
Bikram Yoga - Half Moon Pose With Hands To Feet Pose 5
Bikram Yoga - Eagle Pose 1
Bikram Yoga - Spine Twisting Pose 2
Bikram Yoga - Triangle Pose 5
Bikram Yoga - Standing Bow Pulling Pose 7
Bikram Yoga - Half Moon Pose With Hands To Feet Pose 3

About The Yoga

Bikram Yoga is a series of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises. Each posture stretches and strengthens specific muscles, ligaments, tendons and joints needed for the next posture. The Bikram method also stimulates the organs, glands, and nerves moving fresh oxygenated blood to 100% of the body helping to restore all systems to a healthy working order.

Bikram scientifically designed this 90 minute program to deliver total health through the balancing and strengthening of every system in the body in order to prevent illness and injury, promote weight loss and limit the effects of aging. The series is dynamic and exhilarating. The series of postures combine skills of concentration, patience, determination and self control that increase mental clarity and reduce stress. The room is heated to warm your muscles preventing injury and allowing for a deeper workout.

Why the heat?

The room is intentionally heated to 38 degrees to warm up the body and assist with circulation, promoting detoxification and providing optimum conditions to improve the functions of the body's internal systems.

The heat provides a challenging environment which increases your strength, concentration, endurance and stamina. It also allows you to work safely and deeply into the postures, giving faster results.

Here are 10 good reasons:

  1. Warm muscles burn fat more effectively.
  2. When we stretch fat it has no where to sit so it redistributes back to the blood stream to then be reused as energy.
  3. Speeds up the breakdown of glucose and fatty acids.
  4. A warmer temperature produces a fluid like stretch that allows for greater range of motion in the joints.
  5. Heart rate becomes elevated which improves the cardiovascular system (heart and lungs).
  6. Blood becomes thinner which clears the circulatory system.
  7. Promotes sweating which assists the detoxification process using the body's largest organ (the skin)
  8. Muscles, fascia and connective tissue become more elastic allowing for greater flexibility with less chance of injury.
  9. Capillaries respond to heat by dilating, this allows more oxygen to muscles, tissues glands and organs helping with the removal of waste products.
  10. Teaches you determination, and focus in a challenging environment.


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