| I've been moving more and more toward the benefits | | | | Tokyo University Hospital proved that Bikram Yoga |
| of Bikram yoga after a brief visit to a local studio. I | | | | created valid therapeutic results. Some of its benefits |
| found that the addition of heat and sweat to the | | | | include tissue repair and even remedial effects of |
| smooth movements made my middle aged body feel | | | | chronic ailments. |
| great. | | | | What Bikram was able to produce was a process |
| Bikram Yoga is widely known as Hot Yoga. Some | | | | that replenishes the cells of the body and the flushed |
| know it as The Bikram Method. Bikram yoga is derived | | | | toxins from your body. It also oxygenates blood |
| from Hatha yoga; a healing style designed for the | | | | throughout your body in order to keep it healthy and |
| recovery of mind and body. There are many Bikram | | | | clean. The scientists were able to validate all the |
| enthusiasts who have been swear by this system for | | | | findings. |
| their recuperation from alcoholism to shingles. Many | | | | He discovered that the healing process takes place |
| people have changed their lives after mastering the | | | | when all the body's systems are functioning normally. If |
| basic positions. | | | | the subject was weak, applying the practice to |
| Bikram Choudhury, the founder of the yoga style was | | | | produce healing was difficult. |
| born in Calcutta in 1946. Bikram began practicing yoga | | | | Bikram developed twenty-six posture exercises which |
| at the age of four with India's most-renowned physical | | | | were to be practiced daily. The posture exercises |
| culturist, Bishnu Ghosh. As a youth, this heavily muscled | | | | focused on stretching the muscles, tendons and |
| and vigorous practitioner was very competitive in the | | | | ligaments; while stimulating the organs, nerves, and |
| exhibition circuit. | | | | glands. |
| Bikram Yoga developed his system after recovering | | | | The series of postures were designed to work in |
| from a leg injury. Some people practice Bikram Yoga | | | | order and to promote specific effects on the body. |
| for healing purposes and physical therapy. This type of | | | | Once the body returned to its optimum level of stability, |
| Yoga was proven helpful in bringing health and | | | | healing was much easier to accomplish. |
| wellness to many of its practitioners. | | | | Through contraction and extension, the postures |
| In fact, there was a patient who suffered from a knee | | | | attend to every bodily system including: digestive, |
| injury. He tried to practice Bikram Yoga and just six | | | | respiratory, circulatory, immune, endocrine, lymphatic, |
| weeks after continuous practice, his knees started to | | | | skeletal, muscular, and nervous. It stretches and |
| feel better. Some difficulties and pains that he suffered | | | | strengthens every single muscle, ligament and joint in |
| from were all disappearing. | | | | the body down to cell membrane stretching. |
| In order to be successful with the healing process of | | | | It is an excellent compliment to all other forms of |
| Bikram Yoga, you need devotion in practicing it. | | | | exercise and sport. Bikram yoga has proven itself |
| With the help of scientists Bikram Choudhury | | | | effective for more than thirty years. |
| developed his yoga style. These scientists from the | | | | |