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Bikram Yoga: The Guru Behind Hot Yoga Shows the Way to Radiant Health and Personal Fulfillment
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Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #55768 in Books
- Published on: 2007-04-01
- Released on: 2007-04-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Choudhury (Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class) has been called the "Bill Gates of Yoga," but readers may detect a bit of P.T. Barnum in this "hot yoga" showman. Born in India, Choudhury has lived in Hollywood since the early 1970s, when he founded his Yoga College of India. His brash style and personal wealth have drawn fire from the media and American yogis. His somewhat militant, "no pain, no gain" rhetoric and franchised, one-size-fits-all approach may seem contrary to the principles of yoga; Bikram claims his system is the most authentic yoga taught in the U.S. The Bikram Yoga sequence consists of 26 postures, two breathing exercises and brief resting periods performed in a room heated above 100 degrees. This method, Choudhury claims, can cure everything from physical injuries and serious illnesses to troubled relationships and spiritual poverty. Some readers may be put off by frequent name-dropping of famous students (Shirley MacLaine) and those who have received miraculous cures (former President Nixon). (Apr.)
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About the Author
Bikram Choudhury, who won the prestigious National India Yoga Competition at the age of thirteen, is the founder of the Yoga College of India, which has its headquarters in Beverly Hills. There are more than 1700 Bikram yoga studios worldwide that teach his exclusive style of Hatha Yoga.
Customer Reviews
Bikram is Ayn Rand of yoga - and that's not horrible
I like the book, I like the yoga classes, and Bikram himself is growing on me.
The hard talking style is appealing to me as an endurance athlete, so you'll find no complaint from me to hear him telling me that "99% right is 100% wrong" or that tattoos are a gross violation of your body. Even if I don't agree with his philosophy 100% (and that might make ME in the wrong), I admire and congratulate him for HAVING his own principles and enforcing them in others that want to use his name for their business.
Bravo, and here's to "90 Minutes of Suffering"!
Original 1979 book is the best!!
If you can get a hold of the 1979 edition, you will have exactly what you need to continue on your yoga journey. FUNNY, honest and sensible. Yeah, he name drops, but who cares? Doesn't every one? :o) You will TREASURE this book.
The Student
Great book that anyone interested in making thier life and body better should read. The author talks from real experience and was taught & mentored by the best of the known Yogis of recent time. You will learn about the different types and practices of yoga and why some may not be as good at producing the results that you want to attain. No pain no gain is a sort of mantra that permeates through out the book. Meaning that if you don't do it the right way (or hard way) then don't expect to get the very best results from the time you spend doing it. There is a right way and a wrong way and the right way is usually the hard way Bikram says. Curiously enough however, doing it the right way always turns out to be the easiest way in the end, it seems. Self Realization is a big topic in this book and indeed is the purpose of practising Yoga. According to Bikram his style of yoga is the best way to attain this most worthy goal.:-)
