ABOUT BIKRAM hot yoga
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Why Bikram Yoga?
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Sharpening business focus with yoga
I've built Bikram into my work schedule, even when I travel. It helps me deal with clients - and with stress. Two years ago on labor day I stumbled onto Bikram yoga in a studio on West 72nd Street in New York City and was hooked within a week. Now it's an integral part of how I run my business. Read article...
Heatseekers
Lisa Salas, 48, was looking for a challenging workout that would help her lose weight and hold her interest.
Although she worked out at a gym, she wasn't seeing the results she wanted, so she decided to try the intense and hot Bikram yoga practice. But not just one or two days a week. Salas instead opted for the 60-day Bikram challenge, which as the name suggests means committing to doing the 90-minute Bikram hot yoga sequence of postures for 60 days in a row. Three years later and 30 pounds lighter, she says that first challenge engaged her mind and body in ways that continue to motivate her. And she isn't alone.... Read Article...
New NFL Training Methods
By Tracy Wholf
"Forget standard weight training, today's NFL players are using new and unorthodox workout and recovery strategies. You wouldn't expect burly guys to love Half Moons and Half Tortoises. But Bikram is no standard yoga." Read Article...
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We are Albuquerque's only original and authentic Bikram Hot yoga studio. We have been bringing the heat since 2003 located at 1930 Juan Tabo NE and now on the westside at 3611 SR528 NW, 1/2 mile west of Corrales and Alameda.
Each Bikram yoga class is the beginning Bikram series and is designed for those new to yoga and students of all levels and experiences. The class is led by instructors certified to teach Bikram Choudhory's method of yoga. All teachers at Bikram Yoga in Albuquerque have been trained and certified by yoga master Bikram Choudhury in the most intensive and comprehensive yoga teacher certification programs available in the United States. Read more...
We strive every day to ensure our studios are welcoming, clean and orderly so we have a special place to come together and enjoy the wonderful gifts of yoga. Our teachers..."Plant a seed of hope with every student" - Bikram
Consistency - Respect - Integrity in Everything We Do
We are different than a big fitness center or discount, crowded gyms that count on you not actually using your membership. There is a commitment here - the commitment to yourself! We offer 100% Bikram Yoga in several class packages to fit your practice schedule. Join us, together with great students and teachers we encourage each other to do more than we may ever thought we could alone!
It's amazing what some of our students say about Bikram Yoga! Read... and check out our Facebook FanPage for photos of bikram yoga students in a typical class at our yoga studios in Albuquerque. We are all ages, shapes and sizes!
About Hot Yoga
Hot Yoga was pioneered by Bikram Choudhury, whose renowned style of yoga is regarded as the authentic Hot Yoga. Called hot yoga for a good reason, sessions take place inside of a room heated to 105 ˚F and a humidity of 40%. Bikram's method of Hot Yoga is a specifically designed sequence of 26 Hatha yoga poses and two breathing exercises, performed in the 90 minute class.
The purpose of yoga is the achievement of over all well-being in mind and body and also provides increased strength, injury prevention, tension relief, deeper flexibility and stimulates the health to all of the body's organs, joints and muscles from bones to skin, inside and out. 
The consistent heat and humidity of Hot yoga helps the body to sweat out toxins while allowing the practitioner to safely go deeper into asanas (poses or stretches) and improve focus with breathing control. For many centuries, most styles of yoga were practiced in a hot environment. Much of India, the birthplace of yoga, is tropical with summer temperatures that can exceed 110˚F.
The hot yoga room is heated to warm the muscles and induce sweating. Warm muscles stretch further and safely. Heat increases the pulse and the body burns more calories in its efforts to stay cool during exertion. Heat also dilates the capillaries, distributing oxygen more effectively to muscles, glands, organs and other tissues, helping to remove toxins from the body.
BIKRAM's. the authentic hot YOGA
"Nobody Too Old, Nobody Too Sick, Nobody, Too Bad To Start From Scratch and Begin, Again!" ~ Bikram ChoudhuryThe Bikram hot yoga series is challenging, but is designed for beginners and those new to yoga. Bikram’s hot yoga requires that every yoga student, no matter their level, make demands on him or herself. A Bikram’syoga class requires concentration, careful listening to the teacher's precise instructions, patience, determination, trust, and discipline. As these are required of you, they also develop within you.
The therapeutic, curative, preventive, and overall health benefits of Bikram's yYoga are legendary. Since the 1970s, 
many studies and articles have been written regarding the beneficial effects of Bikram Yoga and countless people have practiced Bikram's method to overcome chronic problems of all types.
When you increase the flow of oxygen to your body you improve your body's ability to heal itself. The Bikram's Yoga series has been scientifically designed to help you direct oxygen to the parts of your body that need it most. Bikram's Yoga rejuvenates, regenerates, strengthens, flexes and balances all of your body, inside and out! Read More...
It takes practice, consistency, and the determination not to give up and to "try the right way," to gain the full life-enhancing effects of your yoga practice. With Bikram Yoga, you develop the foundation for anything you want to achieve and maintain in your own life -- athletically, professionally, physically, mentally, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually. This practice will change your body and change your life! "Trust the process!" ~ Bikram
Builds strength, flexibility, balance * Helps normalize your weight * Relieves chronic pain * Heals and prevents injuries Eliminates toxins from the body* Improves your immune system * Strengthen cardio-vascular *Makes Skin Glow!
About Bikram Choudhury
Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the Yoga College of India™. Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram began yoga at the age of four under his guru, Bishnu Ghosh, brother of Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi, founder of the Self Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles). At the age of thirteen, Bikram won the National India Yoga contest. He was undefeated for three years.
At seventeen, an injury to his knee during a weight-lifting accident brought the prediction from leading European doctors that he would never walk again. Not accepting their pronouncement, he had himself carried back to Bishnu Ghosh's school, for he knew that if anyone could help to heal his knee, it was his teacher. Six months later, his knee had totally recovered. Ghosh was a celebrated physical culturist and the first to scientifically document Yoga's ability to cure chronic physical ailments and heal the body. Bikram was asked by Ghosh to start several Yoga schools in India. There Bikram came into his own. The schools were so successful that at Bishnu's request Bikram traveled to Japan and opened two more. He has since brought his curative methods of Yoga therapy around the world.
Bikram Choudhury's has been a target of controversy for his honest eccentricity, hyperbole and his determination to maintain the integrity of his copyrighted dialogue and to patent the Bikram Yoga series. While yoga is thousands of years old, Bikram has developed a method of hot yoga that provides strength, healing and faith to many. Like music, the instruments and notes may be common, but it is the artist that creates a symphony.