Bikram Yoga is hot yoga

Bikram Yoga is widely known as the hot yoga. It was also called the Bikram Method Yoga. In fact Bikram Choudhury was the beginner of Bikram Yoga, but with time many wrong ways of spelling out bikram yoga started to be used: bickram yoga,  bikhram yoga, bikrahm yoga, bikrham yoga,  bikrum yoga. Read more

Beginner yoga poses for meditation

The term asana or seat, firm seating, is used in Hatha yoga to indicate a large variety of different yoga postures which typically involve bending and stretching the trunk of the body, or more precisely to twist the spine, and serves to keep it very flexible. The difference between yoga poses and Western physical exercises consist mainly in this that the latter are largely intended to build up muscular strength; the yoga poses not at all. In the yoga poses the chief aim is to cultivate poise and balance which, whether in sitting, or in standing or in walking, will need the minimum of muscular effort, and if possible no effort at all. Read more

Meditative asanas

A constant process of meditation requires that the annoyance of the external environment is reduced to the minimum or is annulled entirely. This means that the yoga practitioner will be able to concentrate his own mind and to meditate only in absence of nervous impulses from the receptors. Read more

Classification of yoga âsanas

Yoga asanas have been developed over thousand years to promote physical health and to prepare the student to higher yoga stages of meditation. Each yoga pose is attentively designed to focus on particular areas of the body. Read more