Bikram yoga class in Hossegor
26 POSTURES
Bikram Choudoury*, the master yogi and designer of the series, precisely selected these 26 Hatha yoga postures to ensure a complete maintenance of the body.
The postures follow each other dynamically and are accompanied by 2 breathing exercises.
Each posture prepares the body for the next one, allowing you to progress through the series with complete serenity.
90 MINUTES
The good idea is to know how to pace your efforts to sustain them over the long run. 90 minutes is long!
Each posture is performed twice. The first set 'prepares' the body, the second 'repairs' and strengthens the benefits of the pose.
The series consists of one hour of standing postures and 30 minutes of floor postures.
Above all, BRE-A-THE! A smooth and continuous breath will allow you to have a good class.
Be honest in the accuracy of your alignment and humble in the intensity you put into your practice.
Good breathing and correct alignment will guarantee you the benefits of yoga.
40 °C
The yoga studio is heated to 40°C to facilitate deeper stretching of muscles and joints, thus limiting the risk of injury. The sweating (sometimes intense!) induced by the heat also promotes deep detoxification of the body.
The heat helps develop concentration, improve cardiovascular function, and enhance blood circulation.
Regular practice of Bikram Yoga maintains excellent health, improves posture and spinal alignment, strengthens and increases the flexibility of muscles and joints, reduces stress, and restores a very high energy level (see the "Benefits" section).
A Bikram Yoga class requires each participant to make a real effort for 90 minutes, but the sensations felt afterward quickly make you want to come back for more!
BIKRAM YOGA IS FOR EVERYONE
Bikram Yoga is increasingly popular among top athletes, who have incorporated it into their training. The deep strengthening of muscles, joints, tendons, and ligaments helps prevent injuries and/or speed up recovery. The concentration required during the practice also develops the endurance and mental strength of champions. Very often, especially for dancers, Bikram Yoga acts as a career extender.
Many top athletes have recently stated that Bikram Yoga has significantly contributed to improving their performance: tennis players Serena Williams and Andy Murray, footballer David Beckham, and the Welsh rugby team that won the 2012 Six Nations Championship, to name just a few, and the list goes on!
Dancers, footballers, rugby players, tennis players, surfers... Bikram Yoga is for you!
BIKRAM CHOUDHURY
Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram Choudhury began learning Hatha Yoga (“Physical”) at the age of four with his guru, Bishnu Ghosh, one of the country’s most renowned bodybuilders at the time and the younger brother of Paramahansa Yogananda, a great 20th-century yogi master (author of “Autobiography of a Yogi,” a seminal work on yoga). Bishnu Ghosh was notably the first to scientifically document yoga’s ability to heal the body and maintain good health.
YOGA FOR ATHLETES
One goal: to spread the practice of Yoga to as many people as possible.
Bikram then decided to dedicate his life to Yoga and share it with a wider audience, particularly in the West. It was during this time that, with the help of scientists from the University of Tokyo, he developed his dynamic series of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises.
Having become a celebrity in India and Japan, Bikram was invited to the United States in 1973 by President Nixon, whom he had personally treated. Quickly developing a highly influential clientele of artists and athletes, all passionate about the method, Bikram founded his first "public" studio in 1980 in San Francisco, before establishing Bikram's College of India in Los Angeles a short time later.
Under the exacting guidance of his guru, Bikram practiced yoga throughout his childhood, between four and six hours a day at Ghosh's College of Physical Education in Calcutta. At the age of 13, he became the youngest winner of the National Yoga Championships and remained undefeated for the next three years.
Having become a high-level weightlifter, he suffered a very serious knee injury at the age of 17. Doctors said he would be unable to walk or engage in any physical activity. Refusing to accept this diagnosis, and drawing on the experience he had gained during his childhood, Bikram decided to return to his guru in Calcutta, convinced that yoga and its discipline would allow him to heal. After six months, he had regained full use of his knee.
UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS
Its success has never wavered; today there are over 700 Bikram Yoga studios worldwide (400 of them in the United States alone!), 8,000 teachers, and millions of followers around the globe. Bikram Choudhury is among the most renowned master teachers of Hatha Yoga. His teaching artistry, his personality, and his ability to reconcile an ancient Eastern science with the needs of Western societies have, for the past 40 years, enabled people of all ages, nationalities, and physical abilities to regain their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
THE BENEFITS
Most Bikram Yoga enthusiasts come seeking a complete physical activity that allows them to stay healthy, maintain (or regain) their figure, and relieve the stress of daily life.
Physical and mental benefits.
The benefits of regular and consistent practice are indeed numerous, including:
- Learning to breathe fully and consciously
- Tonging and strengthening all the body's muscles
- Losing weight, slimming and reshaping the figure
- Strengthening ligaments and joints, thus preventing injuries, especially for athletes
- Realigning and strengthening the spine, alleviating back pain
- Deeply detoxifying the body
- Reducing stress and tension
- Stimulating all the body's systems (muscular, skeletal, digestive, immune, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, hormonal, lymphatic) to restore true harmony between body, mind, and spirit
- Improving concentration, determination, patience, endurance, humility, confidence, and self-esteem
- Regaining high energy levels, good sleep quality, and regulating appetite.
- Rediscover beautiful, firmer, softer, and more radiant skin thanks to natural exfoliation through perspiration.
- And much more!