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Bikram Yoga

Regardless of the type, I believe all Yoga has great benefits to ones social, physical, mental and spiritual well being. Yoga helps your body relax, improves breathing, and connects your body, mind and soul together. Bikram yoga has its own benefits too. It is a 90 minutes yoga consisting of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises and is ideally practiced in a room heated to up 40°C with a humid of about 40%. Detoxification is one of the benefits of Bikram Yoga. Heavy sweating help flush toxins from the skin. The heat also helps one go more deeply and safely into the postures. Other benefits include, weight loss, enhanced strength, increased flexibility and improved posture.

Some Bikram Yoga Asanas (posture) and their benefits

Standing Deep Breathing

Pranayaam

Benefits: Helps expand your lungs, improve detoxification of the organs, and increases mental relaxation and blood flow.

Half Moon Pose

Ardha Chandrasana

Benefits: Helps with lower back pain, strengthens body’s central muscles, improves bowel activity, and lessens anxiety and mental stress

Awkward Pose

Utkatasana

Benefits: Strengthens and firms muscles of legs and upper arms, increases hip flexibility and relieves cramps.

Eagle Pose

Garurasana

Benefits: Improves balancing, hip-joint mobility and immune system

Standing Head-to-knee Pose

Dandaymana Janushirasana

Benefits: Improves concentration, mental strength and unifies body and mind

Standing Bow –Pulling Pose

Dandayamana Dhanurasana

Benefits: Improves flexibility and strength of body muscles, increases circulation and reduces abdominal fat.

Balancing Stick Pose

Tuladandasana

Benefits: Improves posture, enhance physical and mental powers, and improves control and balancing

Tree Pose

Tadasana

Benefits: Relieves lower back pain, increases flexibility of ankles, knees and hip joints, and enhances mobility of knees and hip

What's your preference!