

What It’s About: Working with the premise that clearing stored emotions makes room for your spirit to come home, the practice combines physically challenging sequences with deep emotional exploration. What to expect: A strong, hot practice designed to help you release physical and emotional tension and pain, and celebrate the strength of your own body. There are now more than 5,000 certified Bikram teachers throughout the United States.įind out more at Forrest Yoga The Bikram Yoga College of India in Los Angeles serves as headquarters. His main teacher was Bishnu Ghosh (1903-1970). Teachers and Centers: Bikram Choudhury was born in Calcutta and introduced his system in the United States in 1971. The overall objective is to create a fit body and mind, allowing the physical self to unify with the spiritual self.
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What It’s About: This practice is designed to work your body and requires full mental concentration.
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You do the same series of two breathing exercises and 26 poses in each class. What to Expect: Rooms are heated to 105 degrees, and classes consist of 45 minutes of standing poses and 45 minutes of floor postures. There are more than 40 affiliated studios.įind out more at Bikram Yoga The Baptiste Power Yoga Institute is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Teachers and Centers: Baron Baptiste, son of yoga pioneers Walt and Magana Baptiste (who opened San Francisco’s first yoga center in 1955), began practicing as a child and studied with many Indian yoga masters. The physically challenging practice is a training ground for facing emotional and philosophical challenges that arise in your life. What It’s About: The aim of Baptiste Yoga is to create freedom, peace of mind, and the ability to live more powerfully and authentically right now. Classes feature a vigorous 90-minute sequence, performed in a heated room and designed to condition the whole body. What to Expect: This is a physically challenging, flowing practice that will get your heart pumping while also encouraging you to find your authentic personal power in life. There are teachers everywhere around the globe.įind out more at and Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India. Pattabhi Jois (1915-2009), this system is taught around the world. Pattabhi Jois’s famous saying, “Practice, and all is coming.”

With continued practice, this skill of attentive nonattachment spills over into all aspects of life. What It’s About: The practice is smooth and uninterrupted, so the practitioner learns to observe whatever arises without holding on to it or rejecting it. Traditionally, Ashtanga is taught “Mysore style”: Students learn a series of poses and practice at their own pace while a teacher moves around the room giving adjustments and personalized suggestions. What to Expect: The inspiration for many vinyasa-style yoga classes, Ashtanga Yoga is an athletic and demanding practice.

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