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ginkgo · 08-28-2009, 03:12 AM

A teacher can point out what you are doing wrong. So make sure to pay attention to details. Here is a book that teaches you Bikram yoga. I decided to learn it after reading an article on it where they said that it was the most athletic yoga.

I think that this is the best yoga. He has patented the sequence of his yoga postures so no one else (not authorized by him) can teach it. At his studio there are pictures of him with lots of celebrities like President Clinton, John McEnroe and even Senator Ted Kennedy, who just passed away.

Here is the link to it on amazon.com:
Amazon.com: Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class (Second Edtion) (9781585420209): Bikram Choudhury: Books

Oprah's doctor (Dr Oz) has his patients learn yoga. Here is a book about yoga as medicine by an M.D.:
Amazon.com: Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing (9780553384062): Yoga Journal, Timothy McCall: Books

After learning the Bikram yoga, you can go to a class once and ask the teacher to point out anything that you are doing wrong. I know a message therapist who goes to a Bikram yoga class every day. I do fine not heating up the room as much as they say, but sweating a lot is very cleansing.

After graduating college, if you like the area, maybe you will open a yoga school. I am near UPenn which is ranked by U.S. and World News as the 4th best university in the country. It has a yoga studio there as of about 4 years ago. UPenn became the first university in the country when they created the first medical school in the country. Harvard is the first college in the country. Princeton and Harvard are tied as best university in the country. I have been doing yoga since age 12. Here is the article about him on Yoga Journal. The book that he wrote on Bikram yoga costs only $13 from link above. Unlike what is said below, you cannot learn this Bikram yoga online since his yoga is copyrighted and he has sued people for violating this. He says that he does not want the quality of it diminished.

Here is what the article above says about his book, "According to Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class (Tarcher Putnam, 1978), 'the twenty-six exercises systematically move fresh, oxygenated blood to 100 percent of your body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order.' Bikram believes his unique system not only restores any afflicted organ, but also maintains general health throughout the body." Here is an online video on it.

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ginkgo Banned Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Posts: 3,747	A teacher can point out what you are doing wrong. So make sure to pay attention to details. Here is a book that teaches you Bikram yoga. I decided to learn it after reading an article on it where they said that it was the most athletic yoga. I think that this is the best yoga. He has patented the sequence of his yoga postures so no one else (not authorized by him) can teach it. At his studio there are pictures of him with lots of celebrities like President Clinton, John McEnroe and even Senator Ted Kennedy, who just passed away. Here is the link to it on amazon.com: Amazon.com: Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class (Second Edtion) (9781585420209): Bikram Choudhury: Books Oprah's doctor (Dr Oz) has his patients learn yoga. Here is a book about yoga as medicine by an M.D.: Amazon.com: Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing (9780553384062): Yoga Journal, Timothy McCall: Books After learning the Bikram yoga, you can go to a class once and ask the teacher to point out anything that you are doing wrong. I know a message therapist who goes to a Bikram yoga class every day. I do fine not heating up the room as much as they say, but sweating a lot is very cleansing. After graduating college, if you like the area, maybe you will open a yoga school. I am near UPenn which is ranked by U.S. and World News as the 4th best university in the country. It has a yoga studio there as of about 4 years ago. UPenn became the first university in the country when they created the first medical school in the country. Harvard is the first college in the country. Princeton and Harvard are tied as best university in the country. I have been doing yoga since age 12. Here is the article about him on Yoga Journal. The book that he wrote on Bikram yoga costs only $13 from link above. Unlike what is said below, you cannot learn this Bikram yoga online since his yoga is copyrighted and he has sued people for violating this. He says that he does not want the quality of it diminished. Here is what the article above says about his book, "According to Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class (Tarcher Putnam, 1978), 'the twenty-six exercises systematically move fresh, oxygenated blood to 100 percent of your body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order.' Bikram believes his unique system not only restores any afflicted organ, but also maintains general health throughout the body." Here is an online video on it. Last edited by ginkgo; 08-28-2009 at 05:16 AM.