Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class: Revised and Updated - Softcover

Choudhury, Bikram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585420204 ISBN 13: 9781585420209

Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher, 2000

Synopsis

Sweat, strain, laugh, and do more for your health, body, and general well-being than you even imagined possible as you take your beginning yoga class from Bikram. For more than twenty years, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class has been among the preeminent and most beloved of all yoga guides-and now it has been revised and updated by Bikram, with virtually all-new photographs and an updated section on yoga's medical benefits.

With nearly two hundred vivid instructional photographs, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is the perfect guidebook for any student of yoga, either advanced or beginner-a reference that makes Hatha yoga fun, easy, and completely understandable.

Illustrated throughout with 160 black-and-white photographs by Biswanath "Bisu" Ghosh

About this title

Review:

‘Yoga might have had its heyday, but Bikram is still blisteringly hot.’ METRO, 28/5/02
‘The hot new fitness craze.’ DAILY EXPRESS

From the Back Cover:

‘It’s never too late, it’s never too bad, you’re never too old, you’re never too sick to start from scratch once again.’ Bikram Choudhury

Bikram yoga began when Bikram, a former yoga champion, made a full recovery from a crippling accident thanks to yoga, heat and his guru, Bishnu Ghosh. His guru then sent Bikram to Bombay to heal the sick with yoga. Finding that he did not have enough time to help everybody individually, Bikram began to develop an accessible sequence of postures that everyone could follow and benefit from. Today, every class follows the same sequence of 26 postures and exercises in a studio heated to 100 degrees F.

This reader-friendly guide studies each of the 26 movements in detail, showing and describing the ‘ideal’ position as well as what the beginner is more likely to be able to achieve initially and the problems they are likely to encounter. Each move is also accompanied by details of its specific health benefit and a student’s personal experience of the posture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1585420204
• ISBN 13: 9781585420209
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224