Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class
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All yoga students, beginners or advanced, will benefit from this accessible book. It studies each of the 26 movements, breathing exercises and rest poses that form the basis of every Bikram yoga class. Regular practise will completely transform your health by reversing and preventing illness. This is the only guide available on Bikram Yoga. ‘It’s never too late, it’s never too bad, you’re never too old, you’re never too sick to start from scratch once again.’ Bikram Choudhury Bikram yoga began when Bikram, a former yoga champion, made a full recovery from a crippling accident thanks to yoga, heat and his guru, Bishnu Ghosh. His guru then sent Bikram to Bombay to heal the sick with yoga. Finding that he did not have enough time to help everybody individually, Bikram began to develop an accessible sequence of postures that everyone could follow and benefit from. Today, every class follows the same sequence of 26 postures and exercises in a studio heated to… More >>
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for a friend, this method is a godsend and he will bless me until he or i die! but for me, i hurted my back and had muscle flabiness after practicing it for more than a year, faithfully, regularily and earnestly…
I bought the CDs set for 24 dollars becuase I thought there would be some videos that would help me to make perfect postures but to my surprise the CDs are just Audio. I mean what the heck??? How can one get the idea of what Bikram is blabering???? Total wastage of the money and CD don’t even work properly if you try to copy them to your disc. How sad and pathetic…
The postures in the book are fine, but there are many great yoga books out there where you don’t have to deal with the HUGE Beverly Hills ego of Bikram. I saw many reviewers found his abuse and arrogance as humor, and in a way I guess a guru in Beverly Hills would have to be abusive and sarcastic to get spoiled, rich people to do some work, and as most gurus he says his way is the “only way”. But if you need abuse with your yoga, you just don’t get it.
Bikram does not take into consideration that doing strenuous exercise in 102 Fahrenheit for 90 mins is going to send a Vata/Pitta body type into straight rage. Before I started doing some research on this, I would be simply baffled by the fact that instead of feeling balanced and calm and composed (all the things that my 6 years of Iyengar practice leaves me with), a Saturday morning Bikram class would send me on a ‘killing spree’ and road rage and just absolutely unacceptable behaviour toward husband and people in general. Then I find out that it totally aggravates Vata/Pitta, so now I’m all set with it. Never again Bikram. Also, it amazes me how much verbal abuse people can take from a guy who’s ego could do with a little toning down, maybe just a little… He might benefit from reading the Sutras every now and then.
I flew through this book. I found it entertaining and informative. Some people think that Bikram comes off as arrogent and mean but I like how he challenges his students and I think he really wants to help people. For people who want to be physically pushed, Bikram is a great system and this is a good book for you. But if your into a more mellow practice, you have no need for this book or the yoga system it refers to. It’s all about what your looking for in your practice. I personally like to be challenged; I like a good workout and dynamic postures; I like it when a teacher pushes me to go further. That’s just where I am in my practice. As I get older I’ll probably get more into the spiritual side of yoga but for now I enjoy the physical side the most. As Bikram says “You must master the physical before you can know the spiritual.”