Bikram yoga improves muscle strength, reduces stress, detoxifies, regulates weight and improves mental condition. Regular exercising improves lung capacity, strengthens and straightens bones and joints become more elastic.
Initial exercises of Bikram yoga consist of 26 asanas (yoga postures) and two breathing exercises. The goal is to train your body systematically for 90 minutes.
Exercises on postures are performed in a heated room and their goal is to warm the body. Bikram yoga exercises help you work on deep muscle tissue, tendons and ligaments.
The warmth of the room provides total body stretchening, improves circulation and blood flow. This initial sequence of exercises is especially designed for beginners and anyone can do them, regardless of age, sex, weight, strength and stamina.
Bikram yoga consists of initial yoga movements and postures, so there is no possibility to hurt yourself. At the end of each exercise every muscle, tendon, joint, ligament, internal organ and gland you have is fully in function, blood flow is improved up to 100 % and blood enriched with oxygen flows throughout the body.
The result of exercising is restoring healthy condition in all body parts, restoring elasticity and balance of body and mind. After exercising you will feel more energetic, with clear mind and reduced harmful effects of stress.
What are the positive effects of practicing Bikram yoga?
- regulates blood cholesterol
- eliminates toxins
- strengthens immunity
- purifies lymph glands
- balances endocrine glands (glands with internal secretion)
- improves spine elasticity
- increases lung capacity
- strengthens heart
- “lubricate” joints
- strengthens bones
- lengthens, shapes and strengthens muscles
Bikram yoga is a challenging course that requires extreme concentration, careful listening to the trainer, patience, determination, confidence and discipline. Bikram yoga workshops are open all over the world, and also in Europe.
Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the world famous Yoga University in India. He is born in Calcutta in 1946, and started doing yoga at the age of four.
It was the glorious time of the most famous Indian yoga teacher Bishnu Ghosh, younger brother of Paramahana Yogananda, author of the most popular book on yoga ” Autobiography of a jogist”.
Bikram yoga was studied by over 3 million people. Bikram Choudhury brought his way of yoga studying in the United States in 1971 , on demand of the American Health Organization.
With more than 600 workshops worldwide, internationally recognized Bikram yoga is one of the fastest developed Hatha yoga styles.
Founder Bikram Choudhury studied yoga in the United States over 35 years and now he gives Bikram yoga lessons. He personally hands in certificates to those who completed their courses.
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