| Bikram yoga otherwise known as hot yoga is a style | | | | have protested to this copyright since they claim that |
| of yoga practiced and developed by Bikram | | | | yoga tradition dates back to a longer history and that it |
| Choudhury, who is the disciple of Bishnu Ghosh, brother | | | | cannot be claimed by new copyrights. |
| of Paramahansa Yogananda. The hot yoga or Bikram | | | | Those who undergo Bikram yoga should go well |
| yoga classes are held in a hot humid room of 105 | | | | prepared with plenty of water since they tend to |
| degree Fahrenheit with a humidity of forty percent. | | | | sweat a lot during the session. It is better to wear light |
| The classes are conducted and guided by a particular | | | | comfortable clothes and avoid tight fitting clothes that |
| dialogue and includes 26 postures and two breathing | | | | would hinder movement. There are separate locker |
| exercises. The approximate duration for the class is | | | | rooms and shower rooms for men and women with |
| 90 minutes. | | | | good carpet floor. First the standing exercises are |
| The Bikram's yoga college of India is in Los Angeles. | | | | carried out in sixty minutes and then come the floor |
| Since Bikram yoga is a series of yoga poses that are | | | | exercises which last for thirty minutes. Altogether, |
| practiced in a hot atmosphere, it induces profuse | | | | there are twenty six hatha yoga postures to stretch |
| sweating, thus getting the body rid of toxins, thereby | | | | the muscles and modulate the circulation. After all the |
| making the body warm and more flexible. Since the | | | | poses have been completed, it is better to lie in |
| studio is heated, the students are able to stretch | | | | savasana for two to ten minutes so that the body |
| deeper, be free from injury, relieve stress and tension | | | | comes back to a balanced state. |
| and detoxify the body. | | | | If a person feels over heated, it is advisable not to |
| Bikram Choudhury has succeeded in designing the | | | | leave the room because the sudden disparity in |
| yoga poses in such a way that it stimulates and | | | | temperatures may affect the system, instead of the |
| restores health to every muscle, joint and organ in the | | | | body getting gradually adjusted to it. The student can |
| body. But, Bikram Choudhury has claimed copyright | | | | lie on the mat until he or she feels comfortable and |
| and trade mark protection to his method of yoga | | | | then continue. By the end of the process, it offers a |
| practice, which has stirred a controversy. Bikram has | | | | relaxed and rejuvenated condition of the body and the |
| claimed copyright mainly to the sequence of asana in | | | | best sleep of one's life. To get the full benefits of |
| his Bikram’s beginning yoga classes. This has | | | | bikram's yoga it is advised to attend at least three |
| warranted protests from North American yoga | | | | times a week. |
| practitioners. Also, many Indian historians and scientists | | | | |