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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 ...
Yoga Wii is a fitness video game for the Wii home console, developed by Indian studio Trine Games and published by JoWooD Entertainment.Using the Wii Balance Board, and featuring tips and videos from Polish model Anja Rubik, Yoga guides the subject through 30 yoga positions in a variety of virtual Asian settings using an interactive "Yoga Guru".
Wai Lana Yoga is an instructional yoga television series that has been airing on public television stations nationwide since 1998. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is distributed by American Public Television . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Adriene Mishler (born September 29, 1984) [2] is an American yoga instructor, actress, and entrepreneur, based in Austin, Texas.She produces and hosts Yoga With Adriene on YouTube [3] [4] [5] and is co-founder of yoga video subscription service Find What Feels Good.
Bikram Choudhury was born in Calcutta, British India in 1944. He claimed to have begun studying yoga under Bishnu Charan Ghosh, [3] and to have won the National India Yoga Championship for three consecutive years in his teens. [4]
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 .
Wii Fit [a] is a 2007 exergaming video game designed by Nintendo's Hiroshi Matsunaga [9] for the Wii home video game console, [10] featuring a variety of yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balance mini-games for use with the Wii Balance Board peripheral.
A number of yoga texts, such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads, have borrowed from (or frequently refer to) the Yoga Yajnavalkya. [197] It discusses eight yoga asanas (Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura), [198] a number of breathing exercises for body cleansing, [199] and ...