We offer 26 & 2 Hot Yoga, the original Bikram Yoga Beginning Series classes. The 90-minute classes are suited for students of all ages and levels of ability- beginners and more experienced students alike! The series of twenty-six Hatha Yoga postures and two breathing exercises was strategically developed by Physical Culturist Bishnu Charan Ghosh, one of the greatest and most influential yoga masters of the past century, mentor to Bikram Choudhury and brother of the great spiritual leader Paramahasana Yogananda. Ghosh was a celebrated physical culturist and the first to scientifically document yoga’s ability to cure not only common ailments but chronic physical ailments and heal the body.
Hot Yoga postures are practiced in a heated room and are designed to work every part of your body systematically, to engage all the internal organs, veins, ligaments, and all the muscles and joints. Everything that is needed to maintain optimum health and maximum function. The room is heated because a warm body is a flexible body. Hatha Yoga flushes out the toxins from the glands and organs of your body. It provides natural irrigation through the circulatory system with the help of the respiratory system. It brings nourishment to every cell of your body so that each one can perform its function and keeps your body healthy. Humidity is added to further that cleaning process. When you sweat, impurities are flushed out of your body through your skin. You will notice your regular yoga practice will increase the supply of oxygen.
Hot Yoga Benefits
~Reduces tension and stress
~Promotes relaxation
~Builds strength, balance, flexibility, and endurance
~Teaches proper breath utilization and control
~Stimulates every system in the body to the cellular level
~Heals and prevents chronic pains, illnesses, and injuries
~Improves memory, coordination, and balance
~Enhances performance in other forms of exercise
~Lowers blood pressure
~Bolsters immune system
~Reshapes your body and promotes weight loss
~Tones muscles, strengthens ligaments and tendons
~Lubricates joints
~Empowers the mind and calms the soul
We offer a beginner class that is suitable for all levels and invite you to give it a try!
PREPARATION FOR HOT YOGA CLASS AND INFO FOR YOUR FIRST TIME PRACTICE
Are you ready for your first class?
~New students, please arrive 20 minutes before class
~Tell your instructor about injuries, special needs, or concerns. You can always skip postures that don’t feel right.
~Drink plenty of water up to one hour before class. Be prepared to sweat!
~Refrain from eating two-three hours before class
~Wear light, comfortable exercise clothing, men shorts or bathing suit, women exercise top and shorts
~Avoid wearing perfumes, colognes, essential oils or scented deodorants
~Smokers, please avoid smoking for several hours prior class
~Bring a yoga mat, large towel, and bottle of water. Rental mats, towels and water are available
~Bring a change of clothes as your yoga clothes will be drenched from sweat.