My wife and I have been doing Bikram for about two years consistently. She does it 4-6 times per week and I do it once a week to try to get some of the tightness out of my hips and back from triathlon training.
One of the things I really like about Bikram is that, unlike other yoga, you are coached into a pose, and hold the pose. I have problems with other forms of yoga because I am told to get into a position I’ve never heard of, and by the time I’m in it, everyone is two positions further along.
Don’t mistake it – Bikram is a self-admitted beginner’s yoga. The heat and humidity in the room are designed to make the room the same environment where it began – in Calcutta. If it is nothing else, it is consistent world-wide. No matter if you are in Germany, France, Mexico, or the US. The class is the same everywhere, every time.
I live in Las Vegas, and we have our fair share of women who dance professionally for a living – Many Cirque du Soleil performers, as well as the girls who call themselves “dancers” (but are really just poor college girls trying to earn their tuition – at least that’s what she said. She wouldn’t lie would she?) all doing Bikram.
Back during the aerobics/step/group exercise boom of the 80’s and 90’s I always had problems because I am not coordinated. For a generally uncoordinated buffoon like me, it’s perfect. I still have problems with the balancing series, and Camel pose make me want to puke, but I keep at it.
Besides, it’s not the heat that gets you, it’s the humidity!
Jason
*****
It's a dry heat!
One of the things I really like about Bikram is that, unlike other yoga, you are coached into a pose, and hold the pose. I have problems with other forms of yoga because I am told to get into a position I’ve never heard of, and by the time I’m in it, everyone is two positions further along.
Don’t mistake it – Bikram is a self-admitted beginner’s yoga. The heat and humidity in the room are designed to make the room the same environment where it began – in Calcutta. If it is nothing else, it is consistent world-wide. No matter if you are in Germany, France, Mexico, or the US. The class is the same everywhere, every time.
I live in Las Vegas, and we have our fair share of women who dance professionally for a living – Many Cirque du Soleil performers, as well as the girls who call themselves “dancers” (but are really just poor college girls trying to earn their tuition – at least that’s what she said. She wouldn’t lie would she?) all doing Bikram.
Back during the aerobics/step/group exercise boom of the 80’s and 90’s I always had problems because I am not coordinated. For a generally uncoordinated buffoon like me, it’s perfect. I still have problems with the balancing series, and Camel pose make me want to puke, but I keep at it.
Besides, it’s not the heat that gets you, it’s the humidity!
Jason
*****
It's a dry heat!