Welcome to Bikram Yoga!
You’ll sweat. You’ll work hard. You’ll laugh. You’ll feel good.
About Studio You:
Studio You is a sanctuary for self-fulfillment where YOU create a personal experience through the practice of Bikram Yoga. We help you embark on a journey of self-exploration. Studio You is a place where you can feel happy, strong, healthy, calm, fit, vibrant or any other positive experience.
About Bikram Yoga
Bikram Yoga is unlike any other Yoga class. It is a series of
twenty-six asana poses designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons in the order in which they should be stretched. The practice of these twenty-six poses will enhance mind and body, relax, strengthen, reshape and heal all of you over time. Bikram teaches you not only the ideal pose - how you will eventually be able to do it - but also the reality - telling you what problems you will have as you try to do the pose, what clues will help you make rapid progress, and where you might be tempted to "cheat," thus depriving yourself of the benefit of doing the pose properly.
Follow the exercises in order, exactly as Bikram directs, and you won't go wrong. How quickly you progress will depend on you, your natural ability and how well you understand what the body is trying to accomplish with each pose. In Yoga there is no standard of comparison except yourself. Perfect is the best you can do that day.
About Bikram Choudhury
Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India. Born in Calcutta fifty-two years ago, Bikram began Yoga at the age of four with Bishnu Ghosh, brother of Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi, founder of the Self Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles). Bikram practiced Yoga four to six hours a day with six thousand other students at Ghosh's College of Physical Education in Calcutta; and at the age of thirteen, he won the National India Yoga contest. He was undefeated for three years.
At seventeen, an injury to his knee 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. There Bikram came into his own. 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.
Learn more about Bikram's Yoga at The Official Website of Bikram Choudhury. |