What is Bikram Yoga?

Bikram yoga is also called Hot yoga. Bikram yoga is performed in a hot room that is 95-100F degrees (38C) or higher. One reason for the high temperature is to imitate the temperatures in India, where yoga began. Bikram yoga focuses on twenty-six poses that are always done in a particular order. Bikram yoga utilizes very athletic and intense exercises.

The combination of difficult exercises and the high temperatures create a very intense exercise experience. Bikram yoga is only recommended for people who are very physically fit, and people with a lot of experience with yoga. Bikram yoga consists of a series of 26 specific yoga poses that exercise different muscles, ligaments, and tendons, in a progressive order. This order stretches the body in the order that they should be stretched for optimal performance.

Hatha Yoga helps to ease the symptoms of chronic pain and other pain related to diseases and disorders by systematically working every part of the body and supplying the veins, internal organs, ligaments, muscles and tendons all they need to achieve the maximum level of health and function.

Each pose targets a different area of the body, but in turn each part works with the other parts to support one another and bring healthy benefits to the body as a whole. All types of yoga serve to make changes in the body from the inside out. Before the body can change, it needs to be properly warmed up. A warmed up body is more flexible and softened, and more receptive to both the interior and exterior changes yoga can produce. When a person practices yoga, their body begins to flush out toxins and waste produced by the glands and other organs of the human body. Yoga produces a natural cleansing of the circulatory and respiratory systems.

Yoga also helps deliver sustenance to the cells throughout your body, giving each cell the ability to perform its duties, and therefore contributing to the overall health of your body. Bikram yoga heightens the cleansing processes through the addition of high temperatures. These high temperatures cause the student to sweat profusely. Toxins, wastes and other impurities are flushed from the body through the skin when you sweat. Bikram yoga studios are constructed specifically to retain the high temperatures that are integral to this type of yoga. Again, the higth temnperatures aid in flexibility as well as encouraging sweating.

Bikram studios are often referred to as “Torture Chambers” in the yoga world. There are Bikram yoga classes at other gyms and centers, but they may not provide the intense temperature of dedicated Bikram studios. While not recommended for novices, Bikram yoga is an intense experience that can be quite challenging and rewarding for very physically fit people and expert yoga students.

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