Here are a couple of videos of our students who competed in the 2010 Regional Yoga Asana Championships in Orlando.
A couple of years ago, Flagler College student Kristen Shea did a documentary piece on Bikram Yoga St. Augustine. Learn more about the mental and physical benefits of hot yoga.
Bikram's Beginning Yoga Series
You are invited to a 100% total mind and body workout.
Bikram's Yoga Program is the most exciting, demanding, effective yoga program in the world. You will sweat, strain, laugh and do more for your health, self-image and spirit than any other activity you can do. Bikram Yoga St. Augustine welcomes everyone to try Bikram Yoga. No Yoga experience needed, Bikram's class is a beginning class, there are no levels, or advanced postures. Bikram Yoga is for everybody.
No matter what your physical condition, you will be equally challenged and will receive equal benefit from Bikram's 26 ordered postures and 2 breathing exercises.
Bikram's Beginning Yoga Series is preventative healthcare. Being "in shape" doesn't just consist of shapely muscles and being able to run a few miles. Being "in shape" means that every system, gland, organ, tendon, ligament, joint and cell of the body is exercised.
Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India™. Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram began Yoga at the age of four with India's most-renowned physical culturist at that time, Bishnu Ghosh, the younger brother of Paramahansa Yogananda (Author of the most popular book on Yoga, The Autobiography of a Yogi, and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles).
Bikram practiced Yoga at least four to six hours every day at Ghosh's College of Physical Education in Calcutta. At the age of thirteen, he won the National India Yoga Championship. He was undefeated for the following three years and retired as the undisputed All-India National Yoga Champion.
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. 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.
