About Bikram Yoga

Oprah Magazine

Can You Transform Your Whole Life in 60 Days? Part I

My bra's too tight. Is that cellulite on my biceps? I might be having a heart attack. And why does everybody in here have a tattoo?

She's 80 pounds overweight, divorced, out of work, and deeply in debt. She needs a physical and spiritual overhaul. Can 60 days in a Bikram hot-yoga studio really undo years of damage?

The teacher wants me to make a Japanese ham sandwich. To my knowledge, I've never seen a Japanese ham sandwich, but as I understand it, I'm to stand bent with my face to my shins and chest to my thighs in perfect vertical union - I am the sandwich.

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Oprah Magazine

Can You Transform Your Whole Life in 60 Days? Part II

It's never too late, You're never too old, never too sick to start over again. This thought drives me back into the 105-degree room day after day. Page Williams hoped the 60-day yoga challenge would change her body, her mind, and her life. It did - in ways she never expected.

Last month Paige Williams - overweight, divorced, out of work and in debt - embarked on the 60-day Bikram challenge in hopes of turning her life around. This month she writes about the final 30 days of her journey.

I am such a cheater. In a couple of hours , I'm supposed to unfurl my yoga mat at Bikram Yoga Memphis, yet here I am at Karen Wilder Fitness, considering a fling with the exercise machines.

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Shape Magazine

My 15 minute yoga sculpting workout

Jenny McCarthy has always been known for her knockout body. So when she found herself with a little extra jiggle last year, she tried Bikram yoga, a series of 26 poses performed in a 105-degree room. "I'm now doing it three or four times a week," says Jenny. "And I'm firmer, leaner, and more flexible than ever before."

The key to Bikram's success is its pace, says Jenny's go-to instructor, Rob Manosca, owner of Bikramm Yoga Jacksonville in Neptune Geach, Florida. "You hold poses for up to 1 minute," he says. "Your muscles have to contract that entire time, which really challenges them." Do these moves several times a week and experience an om-my! moment every time you look in the mirror.

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tri247.com

Bikram Yoga for triathletes

Dan Bullock is best known for his Swim for Tri features on these pages but, like many triathletes, he's also discovered the benefits of yoga as a strength and flexibility regime. His chosen school is Bikram yoga which, unusually, can also help prepare athletes with heat acclimatisation for races in warmer parts of the world.

For triathletes, the number 26 is more likely to remind them of the number of miles in a marathon, not the number of positions they need to learn to practice Yoga successfully. However, with more and more sports people advocating Bikram Yoga, age-groupers are joining the ranks of celebrities and elite athletes signing up for classes in the 'Ironman of Yoga'.

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