| Bikram Yoga can be classified as a distant cousin of | | | | Fahrenheit) and humidity levels of 40% help achieving |
| Hatha Yoga. Its founder, Bikram Choudhury, is | | | | the detoxifying of the body and speeds up the healing |
| rumoured to have been inspired into creating this | | | | process of injuries. |
| variant of Yoga after having suffered an injury in | | | | Another good reason for taking up Bikram Yoga is |
| weightlifting. After discovering that Yoga postures | | | | that it has been "westernised", or adapted to the |
| greatly enhanced his recovery, he passed on his | | | | needs of western capitalistic society. While having |
| knowledge and other people suffering from various | | | | been designed as a physical therapy for people with |
| injuries experienced the benefits of recovering more | | | | injuries, Bikram Yoga dispenses with the goal of |
| rapidly from their ailments. | | | | achieving samahdi and concentrates on the immediate |
| There are many reasons why the practise of Bikram | | | | benefits of practising postures and breathing. Having |
| Yoga can be beneficial to you. The advantages | | | | modelled his distribution methods on the mould of |
| Bikram Yoga bring can totally change your life. This | | | | franchising, Bikram Yoga soon became an American |
| being written, Bikram Yoga is also known as "hot" | | | | phenomenon while making its founder enormously |
| Yoga and therefore can be considered a variant or | | | | wealthy. |
| westernised version of Ashtanga Yoga. | | | | More recently, the founder of Bikram Yoga hit the |
| Compared with Bikram Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga | | | | news headlines when he decided to obtain legal rights |
| depends on the individuals' own personal strength to | | | | for his Yoga franchises. Most Yoga purists would |
| muster the discipline of learning the eight limbs of | | | | sneer at this attitude, as this goes against the very |
| practice. One of the main effects of Ashtanga Yoga | | | | foundation of post classical yoga, which aims at the |
| is that it produced abundant amounts of body heat, | | | | liberation of all individuals. One could argue that Bikram |
| which in turn provokes abundant sweating. This helps in | | | | Yoga is a form a physical therapy based on traditional |
| detoxifying the body, a process necessary for the | | | | Yoga without the constraints that the practise of |
| purification of the individual on the path to samahdi. The | | | | traditional yoga impose. Having westernised his type of |
| practice of Bikram Yoga differentiates itself from | | | | Yoga, its founder reaps the benefits and rewards for |
| Ashtanga by the use of warmed rooms. | | | | his strategy. Alas, he also has to confront the dangers |
| Temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (105 degrees | | | | that come with the commercialisation of his product. |