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  2. Bikram Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Bikram Yoga is a system of hot yoga, a type of yoga as exercise, spread by Bikram Choudhury and based on the teachings of B. C. Ghosh, that became popular in the early 1970s. [1] Classes consist of a fixed sequence of 26 postures , practised in a room heated to 105 °F (41 °C) with a humidity of 40%, intended to replicate the climate of India .

  3. Bikram Choudhury - Wikipedia

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    Bikram Choudhury (born 1944) is an Indian-American yoga guru, [2] and the founder of Bikram Yoga, a form of hot yoga consisting of a fixed series of 26 postures practised in a hot environment of 40 °C (104 °F). The business became a success in the United States and then across the Western world, with a variety of celebrity pupils.

  4. Postures of Bikram Yoga - Wikipedia

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    The postures include 24 asanas (poses in modern yoga as exercise), one pranayama breathing exercise, and one shatkarma, a purification making use of forced breathing. Bikram Yoga was devised by Bikram Choudhury around 1971 when he moved to America.

  5. Is hot yoga good for you? What to know about the benefits ...

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    Hot yoga temperature. In Bikram hot yoga, poses are performed in a 105-degree room with 40% humidity. For other hot yoga classes, the studios determine the temperature.

  6. Hot yoga - Wikipedia

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    Hot yoga is a form of yoga as exercise performed under hot and humid conditions, resulting in considerable sweating. Some hot yoga practices seek to replicate the heat and humidity of India, where yoga originated. [2] Bikram Choudhury has suggested that the heated environment of Bikram Yoga helps to prepare the body for movement and to "remove ...

  7. Bishnu Charan Ghosh - Wikipedia

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    Bikram Choudhury, creator of Bikram Yoga, claimed to have been taught by Ghosh from the age of five. However, he did not become a regular student at Bishnu's gymnasium until 1962 at the age of 18. At that time Bikram was a bodybuilder. His system of yoga was based on Ghosh's teachings. [11] [12] [13] Choudhury named the Bishnu Charan Ghosh Cup ...

  8. Joseph Alter - Wikipedia

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    Swami Vivekananda brought yoga to the West in the 1890s, but without asanas. [7]Alter's 2004 book Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy examines three main themes in the history and practice of yoga in the 20th century: Swami Kuvalayananda's medicalisation of yoga; [8] naturopathic yoga; [9] and the influence of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on the ...

  9. B. K. S. Iyengar - Wikipedia

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    B.K.S. Iyengar was born into a poor Sri Vaishnava Iyengar family [10] in Bellur, Kolar district, [11] Karnataka, India.He was the 11th of 13 children (10 of whom survived) born to Sri Krishnamachar, a school teacher, and Sheshamma. [12]

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