Health, Wellness & Fitness - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bikram Yoga is not a fad, it's not a trend. It may have started as one when the Hollywood celebrities couldn't get enough of it in the 1970s but Bikram Yoga is still as hot, as hard and as therapeutic as it was back then. It is a prescription, 26 POSTURES with 2 BREATHING EXERCISES designed in a genius sequence by a genius yogi from Calcutta. How is it a genius? There are a number of reasons but the most compelling reason being that Bikram Yoga is the safest yoga on the face of the planet making it accessible to the most inflexible and broken bodies. How? Starting from Pranayama Breathing, every posture makes you ready, warmed up and prepared for the next one. It's a progressive practice. You cannot hurt yourself as long as you're listening and following the instructions precisely to the best of your abilities. If you were to get a bunch of yoga practitioners who have had an experience with at least 4 or 5 styles of yoga and ask them, "If you were to take your 80 year old grandmother to a yoga class with you, which yoga would you choose?" They will ALL say Bikram Yoga. Why? Because it's safe. Also because unlike other styles of yoga, Bikram Yoga teachers do not practice when they are teaching. They stand in front of the class on a podium and teach while watching everyone throughout the 90 minutes, giving their undivided attention to the students. You are not on your own in a Bikram Yoga class. You are always supported, looked after and encouraged by a Certified Bikram Yoga Teacher.The founder of Bikram Yoga is Bikram Choudhury. When I say the founder, it does not mean he made the yoga postures. Bikram will say it himself, "There is no such thing as Bikram Yoga, it is Hatha Yoga. I only designed the sequence and put 26 postures in a sequence like the 26 alphabets of the English vocabulary. You start with ‘A' then ‘B' then ‘C'." So he picked from a variety of Hatha Yoga postures and chose the ones that were most accessible as well as therapeutic to the poeple.
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