Bikram Yoga Bronx

26 postures + 105°+ 90 minutes=pure bliss The Original Bikram Hot Yoga! Bikram Yoga is a beginner's series of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises done in a room heated to approximately 105 degrees. The class is 90 minutes, an hour and a half. The combination of the heat and the rigorous postures is proven to help you achieve and maintain a healthy body weight, reduce stress, combat depression, prevent and treat diabetes and arthritis, and that is only the beginning. Come try it for yourself and see why this yoga has become so popular over the last two decades. *Every class is the same, all classes are open to all levels, every class is a beginners class *Bring a mat, bath size towel and bottle of water. If you do not have these things we rent/sell them at the studio *Come to class hydrated. Drink plenty of water the day before your first class, avoid eating for two hours prior to class *Come to your first class 15-20 min early to pre-register Visit our website if you have more question: bikramyogabronx.com WHAT IS BIKRAM YOGA? Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class is a twenty-six posture series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched. While the yoga gently guides the body into correct alignment, strengthens and tones the muscles, lubricates the joints, and promotes flexibility, it provides tremendous benefits on the organs, glands, and fluids of the body by aiding in the release of toxins. Bikram Yoga’s 90 minute, twenty-six posture sequence systematically moves fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of your body, building core strength while restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as Nature intended. Proper weight, muscle tone, vibrant good health, and a sense of well-being will automatically follow. The focus and intensity of the class help to build mental clarity and determination. Bikram Yoga is a practiced in a heated room at 105 degrees and 40% humidity for 90 minutes. Practitioners will sweat a lot! Don’t let this scare you, Bikram yoga is meant to be done by all. The heat is your friend and will promote flexibility and aid in detoxification. WHY 105 DEGREES? Yoga changes the construction of the body from the inside out, from bones to skin and from fingertips to toes. 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. 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 nourishment 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. WHO IS BIKRAM? Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India ™ and creator of Bikram Yoga. Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram began Yoga at the age of four with India’s most-renowned physical culturist at that time, Bishnu Ghosh, the younger brother of Paramahansa Yogananda (Author of the most popular book on Yoga, The Autobiography of a Yogi, and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles). Bikram practiced Yoga at least four to six hours every day at Ghosh’s College of Physical Education in Calcutta. At the age of thirteen, he won the National India Yoga Championship. He was undefeated for the following three years and retired as the undisputed All-India National Yoga Champion. At seventeen, an injury to his knee during a weight-lifting accident brought the prediction from leading European doctors that he would never walk again. Not accepting their pronouncement, he had himself carried back to Bishnu Ghosh’s school, for he knew that if anyone could help to heal his knee, it was his teacher. Six months later, his knee had totally recovered. Ghosh was a celebrated physical culturist and 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. The schools were so successful that at Bishnu’s request Bikram traveled to Japan and opened two more. He has since brought his curative methods of Yoga therapy around the world.