Bikram Yoga posture
The word Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit base “yuj” or “to yoke” which supposedly relates to the union of the individual’s soul (Atman) with the universal collective soul (Brahman); both are Hindu conceptual terms used as a reference to the mind, where Oneness only truly exists.
Yoga is one of six classic Hindu philosophy systems with beginnings dating from more than 4,000 years.
Bikram Choudhury, the world-renowned creator of the Bikram Yoga Position, began his journeying by practicing Hatha Yoga in his native-born India at the age of three, and speedily became a champ; at the age of 11 he was the youngest contestant of all time to win the National Yoga Championship.
Bikram extended his athletic training seriously until, at the age of 17, he was afflicted by a weight-lift knee accidental injury; the European specialists examining him determined that Bikram would never walk again. Not surprisingly, his yoga experience taught him not to admit that inevitableness; training with his former teacher, his knee had completely recovered six months later.
Realizing the power of the Bikram yoga posture methodology, his teacher asked him to start several yoga schools in India; these were so successful that Bikram opened schools in Japan, and in the years since then has brought his unique curative yoga to the rest of the world.
Bikram yoga is a system of wellness, renovation and rejuvenation suitable for all ages and all levels of fitness training, based on the combination of a series of 26 asanas (poses) which make up the core elements of the Bikram yoga posture, and two yoga breathing exercises, or pranayamas.
The series of positions, performed twice in a session (sessions typically last 90 minutes) was planned to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, and to do so in a peculiar order. Because people typically use only a part of their whole lung capacity, the pranayamas will stretch the lungs over time, leading in improved oxygen absorption and improved blood circulation.
26 Poses in the Bikram Yoga Positions
Bikram Yoga is practiced with the assistance of instructors in licensed Bikram yoga studios round the world; the typical 90-minute session comprises of two challenging sets of the poses, designed by Bikram to systematically stimulate and restore health to every muscle, organ and joint of the body. The order, length and form is important to the general accomplishment got in each session.
Each of the 26 asana is directed at improving the functional state of a peculiar body part or region; here are a few examples, the number refers to the specific Bikram yoga pose pose sequence in the overall session:
Number 11 is the Tadasana, or Tree Pose – it betters posture, thighs, and has an impact on back pain.
Number 17 is the Salabhasana, or Locust Pose – it objects the spine, back and chest, and improves spine flexibility.
Number 25 is the Matsyendrasana, or Spine Twisting Pose – it stretches the spine for flexibility and helps reduce back pain.
Hot Bikram or Not?
Bikram’s Yoga is wrongly referred to as Hot Yoga, because the Bikram yoga posture of 26 poses is performed in a heated room; Hot Yoga is a form of Hatha yoga performed in a heated room, but is not taught according to Bikram’s exact philosophy or practice, and the instructors are not always prepared in his methods.
There is some arguing; with the gains of a heated environment well-documented, the hot yoga-style has attained wide popularity. Recently, Bikram chose to prevent anyone who was merely teaching yoga in a heated room to advertise it as Bikram Yoga unless the instructors were certified by his college and exactly observed his established Bikram yoga posture methodology. The resulting lawsuits were at last settled when Bikram agreed not to further go after the members of the Hot Yoga community, and they in turn agreed not to use the Bikram name. The confusion still survives, however, with the common understanding that they are one and the same.
Comments
Tell us what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!