Bikram Yoga Postures

Bikram Yoga postures or Hot Yoga was founded by Bikram Choudhury.

• Bikram Yoga has twenty-six hatha yoga poses. Each yoga pose is performed twice.

  Click on the yoga exercise diagrams throughout this Web site for more info.

  They are a distillation of the classical eighty-four hatha yoga poses as set forth by oral transmission and recorded by the Vedic sage Patanjali.

• Each "Hot Yoga" class is given in an atmosphere of 105 degrees.

• Every yoga pose is held while using a breathing technique called Kapalabhati Pranayama.

• Bikram Yoga postures class lasts for ninety minutes.

• It's designed to stimulate and balance each gland, organ, muscle, physical and energetic systems of the body.

• When practiced properly and under guidance, Bikram Yoga will give health to the body, not damage it.

The Bikram Postures

Each Bikram Yoga class goes through hatha yoga poses in the following order...

1. standing poses

2. back bends

3. forward bends

4. ending in twists

Bikram Philosophy

The primary philosophy underlying the development and growth of Bikram Yoga is to...

• make it available to everyone, world-side

• create a foundational and structured approach towards balancing the modern body-mind

• to prevent disease

Benefits of Bikram Hot Yoga

• reverse the effects of aging

• regulates metabolism and aids in weight loss

• reduce the effects of stress

• helps in eliminating chronic disease

• balances all glands and organs

• clears the Chakras and Nadis

• heals and maintains the physical body

• builds strength and flexibility

  develops happiness, faith, patience and disciple

• and much much more

History and Origins of Bikram Yoga

The founder, Bikram Choudhury, was trained from an early age in the traditional practice of eighty-four hatha yoga asanas. And taught professionally from the age of six.

He won the prestigious All-India Hatha Yoga Asana Championship for three consecutive years under the guidance of his Guru, Bishnu Charan Ghosh.

His Guru was the youngest brother and life-long disciple of Self-Realization Fellowship founder Paramahansa Yogananda.

“Yoga maintains youth. It keeps the body full of vitality, immune to diseases, even at old, old age. Where medical science stops, there the science of yoga begins.”

Bikram developed his system of Hot Yoga from what he believed was the most essential combination of hatha yoga poses from the traditional eighty-four.

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Here are hatha yoga poses that you can search on for details. Locate the "Search Bar" below this list. I've also included the Sanskit name...

tree - vriksasana
crow - kakasana
dancer - natarajasana
warrior or hero pose - virabhadrasana III
hand to toe - utthita padangusthasana
side arm balance - vasisthasana
shoulder stand - sarvangasana
head stand - sirshasana
hand stand - adho mukha vriksasana
plow - halasana
mountain - tadasana
warrior or hero - virabhadrasana II
warrior or hero - virabhadrasana I
triangle - trikonasana
bikram yoga postures
cat or table pose - marjariasana
sun bird - chakravakasana
staff - dandasana
seated boat - paripurna navasana
downward facing dog - adho mukha svanasana
upward facing plank - purvottanasana
face down moves - navasana vinyasa
leg raises - ab vinyasa
knee to chest - apanasana vinyasa
monkey god - hanumanasana
runners poses - ashwa sanchalasana
thunder bolt - vajrasana or virasana
pigeon - kapotanasana
bridge - setubandhasana
bow pose - Dhanurasana
wheel pose - chakrasana
standing forward bend - uttanasana
camel - ustrasana
seated forward bend - paschimottanasana

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