Bikram Choudhury is one of the preeminent living Hatha Yoga Masters.
Bikram began his yoga training at age 3. At 13 he was
the youngest contestant to win the India National
Yoga Competition.
At the age of 17, after suffering a knee injury due to weightlifting, doctors told Bikram he would never walk again. Under the guidance of his guru Bishnu Ghosh, Bikram’s knee healed in 6 months. Bishnu Ghosh is the younger brother of Paramahansa Yogananda. Yogananda is the author of “Autobiography of a Yogi” and the founder of The Self-Realization Fellowship.
In a 3-year research project at Kyoto University Hospital, Bikram helped doctors prove that yoga regenerates tissues and cures chronic ailments.
Bikram founded the Yoga College of India in the United States when he opened his first school in Beverly Hills, California in 1974. Bikram travels worldwide to lecture and give workshops on his unique yoga method. As a result of Bikram’s teacher training and certification programs, there are more than 500 Bikram Yoga College of India locations throughout the world.
Rajashree Choudhury held the title Yoga Champion of India from 1979 to 1984. She teaches yoga and lectures alongside Bikram.
Her revolutionary videotape on yoga for pregnancy has helped many students stay healthy and strong for the rigors of pregnancy and childbirth.
To learn more about Bikram Yoga
please visit www.bikramyoga.com |
“It’s never too late. Yoga is for everybody. There is no such thing as old and infirm. I will tell you the same thing even if you are one-hundred-and-one. Put on your leotards and get to work.”
“Regardless of your age or current physical condition you’ll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.”
Bikram claims the key to
life is balance. “If you are balanced, stress can’t touch you.” His carefully designed routine of 26 postures performed in a heated room develops balance, strength and flexibility and works equally well for beginning and advanced students.
A disciplined practice of these postures will work on the whole body relieving stress, improving balance and strengthening the glands, organs, circulation, digestive and nervous systems. It rejuvenates tissue, reverses the aging process, reshapes muscles and tendons and stabilizes weight while it builds will power, self-control and patience. |
