What is Bikram Yoga?
Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class is a demanding series of 26 postures (asanas) and two breathing excises (pranayamas), which is suitable for all ages and levels of ability. Each posture stretches and strengthens specific muscles, ligaments, and joints needed for the next posture. The Bikram method also stimulates the organs, glands and nerves, moving fresh oxygenated blood to 100 percent of the body, restoring 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, injury, and limit the effects of aging. In addition, the series of postures combine skills of concentration, patience, determination, and self control, which lead to increased mental clarity and reduced stress.

“Bikrams Beginning Yoga” class is done in a hot room to warm your muscles, prevent injury, allow deeper stretching, and cleanse the body by flushing toxins. As Bikram says, “Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age.” There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind or soul.

What Bikram Yoga can do for you:

• Regulates cholesterol in the blood
• Supplies oxygen and nutrients to parts of the body that have been blocked or stagnant
• Eliminates toxins
• Flushes the lymphatic system
• Strengthens the immune system
• Balances the endocrine glands
• Improves the spine's flexibility and health
• Expands lung capacity and strengthens the heart
• Lubricates joints
• Strengthens bones, and stretches and tones the muscles

As we age our muscles tend to get stiffer, creating more pressure on the joints. By regular stretching we prevent this gradual stiffening and joint deterioration and that is why yoga has a rejuvenating effect. Through a regular workout we liberate a vast amount of energy that can be used in our daily life to feel more alive and self fulfilled. We look, move and feel younger. In a three year research project at the Tokyo University Hospital, Bikram helped doctors prove that yoga regenerates tissues and thus helps cure chronic aliments. The routine is dynamic and exhilarating. The room is intentionally warm so that your muscles will stretch more easily. The series works equally well for beginning as well as advanced students. Bikram say: “Never too late, never too old, never too bad and never too sick to do yoga and start from scratch again.”