The Guru Behind Hot Yoga Shows the Way to Radiant Health and Personal Fulfillment

Bikram Yoga: The Guru Behind Hot Yoga Shows the Way to Radiant Health and Personal Fulfillment

This book is not only a useful textbook for aspiring Bikram yogis (all positions are explained, as are the origins and effects of yoga in general), it is above all a compelling and always entertaining life work of a globetrotter, who went around the world yoga to teach, and to fulfill his "karma yoga" and the order of his guru. Incidentally, it contains more wisdom than most psychological counselor.

Bikram's approach to yoga is different from many other schools, which he sometimes abschmettert as "Mickey Mouse yoga." No wonder he had to Bishnu Ghosh, a wise and tough teacher who understood him to the limits of its performance (and even further) cause. These experiences have shaped Bikram, and the same principle he used in his world of successful yoga studios. "Tough love" the Americans would call it, and just as he addresses the reader of this book - here it is not handled with kid gloves, here is plain spoken.

Bikram, the "hot yoga" program, has been heating up the yoga world lately, and its founder probably has something to do with it: The outspoken, dramatic, and always controversial Bikram Choudhury has garnered a lot of attention with his version of hatha yoga that some yogis think unorthodox: In his classes, students are stuck in a room heated to at least 105 degrees doing a structured program of 26 asanas with a sergeant–like instructor––and they love it. Bikram Yoga will emulate that same energy.

With his take–no–prisoners philosophy, Bikram describes how the program can reap great medical, physical, and spiritual benefits––the poses work out every part of the body, all of which can help alleviate many common ailments, from asthma to back pain. (Photographs will accompany each pose.) In addition, the book offers the best ways to incorporate eastern philosophy into a western lifestyle and tips on how yoga can cultivate "a union between body and spirit." Simply put, you don't have to meditate passively to reap the benefits of yoga.

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