Bikram Yoga can assist in preventing illness, injury, promoting weight loss and limiting the effects of aging. The series is done in a heated room in order to warm your muscles, allowing for a deeper safer stretch, and to assist the body in its cleansing of toxins. Bikram Yoga ultimately combines and refines skills of concentration, determination, patience, faith and self control, leading to increased mental clarity and increased resistance to the negative effects of stress.
East West Bikram Yoga comprises two studios serving yoga students in Auckland. The Newmarket studio opened in May 2004, and Ponsonby in May 2008. Both studios teach Bikram Yoga in the style personified by Bikram himself - a straight up asana and pranayama class which encourages you to take responsibility for your own yoga practice, and ultimately your life!! All the teachers are trained with Bikram Choudhury through his twice-yearly international trainings, and regularly updated with seminars held by Bikram and other senior teachers.
Bikram Choudhury began his study of yoga in his native India at a very early age, practising yoga at Ghosh's College of Physical Education. By the age 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 doctors that he would never walk again. Not accepting their pronouncement, he returned 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.
Combining Eastern discipline and Western medicine, Bikram has since dedicated his life to teaching his method of yoga in the United States and around the world. From his base in Los Angeles, Bikram and his senior teachers also undertake teacher training so that others can teach his unique style of yoga. For more information about Bikram Choudhury see:
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