What is it?
What is Bikram Yoga?
Bikram Method Hatha Yoga is a sequence of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises practiced in a heated room. It is specifically designed to work the entire body, using heat to stretch deeper, prevent injury and flush unwanted toxins. This yoga series stimulates the organs, glands and nerves and systematically moves fresh oxygenated blood to 100% of the body restoring health to all systems. It is an extremely well balanced practice, and in each 90-minute class the practitioner gains physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health benefits.
40°C
The yoga room is intentionally heated to 40 degrees C with 40% humidity. Yoga changes the construction of the body from the inside out, from bones to skin and from fingertips to toes. So before you change it, you have to heat it up to soften it, because a warm body is a flexible body. Then you can reshape the body any way you want. Practicing yoga in the heat facilitates deeper and safer stretching, helping to minimize the risk of injuries. The room is kept at this temperature for the following reasons:
- Keeping the body from overheating (contrary to popular misconception)
- Protecting the muscles to allow for deeper stretching
- Detoxifying the body (open pores to let toxins out)
- Thinning the blood to clear the circulatory system
- Increasing heart rate for better cardiovascular workout
- Improving strength by putting muscle tissue in optimal state for reorganization
Hatha Yoga flushes away the waste products, the toxins of all the glands and organs of your body. It provides a natural irrigation of the body through the circulatory system, with the help of the respiratory system. It brings nourishments to every cell of your body so that each one can perform its function and keep your body healthy. Bikram Yoga also employs heat to further that cleaning process: When you sweat, impurities are flushed out of the body through the skin.
Bikram Choudhury
Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India™. Alongside his guru, renowned physical culturist, Bishnu Ghosh, they were among the first to scientifically document Yoga’s ability to cure chronic physical ailments and heal the body. Bikram was asked by Ghosh to start several Yoga schools in India. He has since brought his curative methods of Yoga therapy around the world.
Links
Article in Göteborgs Posten
“Om du vill leva länge, följ mig!” - Aftonbladet
“Prince Harry is hooked on yoga” - Daily Star Sunday
“David Beckham hopes Yoga craze helps rescue his career” - Daily Star Sunday
“Demi Moore’s Steamy New Workout” - InStyle
“Yoga king to become a rock star?” - One India News
“Bikram Yoga Göteborg – För kropp & själ” – Upplevgbg
