Bikram Yoga Online: Recent Episodes
Bikram Yoga Online
Traditional Bikram Yoga classes (and so much more!) from Bikram Yoga Online. In partnership with Bikram Yoga Capital Area, East Lansing, Michigan. Classes taught by Ann Renee Chrapkiewicz, an 18-year experienced Bikram Yoga Teacher (BYTT '04), M.A. in Medical Anthropology, Isha Yoga practitioner, and dedicated somanaut-student of Gil Hedley. Ann is also co-author of Hope for Autoimmune Disease: 15 Personal Stories of Living Better with Bikram Yoga.
Get ready for some of our next season and new "episodes" of the Original Hot Yoga 90-minute Bikram Yoga class. We are fired up here in Michigan.
Learning more and more, going deeper and deeper into YOGA.
Getting more and more in tune with the miracle of human existence.
And supporting & encouraging each other all along the way!
You are invited to join our PATREON community here.
Or get super connected by joining our livestream membership here.
Ann Chrapkiewicz
Owner, Director, Senior Teacher
Yoga Is Medicine / formerly Bikram Yoga Capital Area
1355 E. Grand River
East Lansing, MI 48823
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Check out these resources from our yoga school:* link to our book on Bikram Yoga & Autoimmune Disease * Our YouTube Channel * website: www.yogaismedicine.com * IG: www.instagram.com/bikramyogaismedicine * FB: www.facebook.com/YogaIsMedicineOriginalHotYoga
In this class, perhaps more deeply than any other so far, we explore the breath. Muscles, organs, techniques, and more. We hope you can join us the next time we offer the workshop on Exploring the Breath & Spinal Anatomy. Stay tuned at www.yogaismedicine.com, sign up for our emails, and join us on Patreon!!
Some new ponderings on what "side effects" we are willing to tolerate when it comes to improving our health. And how to write a five-paragraph argument to the chitter-chattering mind.
Join us for Thanksgiving practice on the livestream via www.yogaismedicine.com/schedule
Recorded November 14, 2023
East Lansing, Michigan
www.yogaismedicine.com
Working through the specific challenges of the original hot yoga is EMPOWERING. This empowerment has effect on our personality, on our hearts (literally), and on how we go about our daily lives. Recommended related reading: Heart: A History, by Sandeep Jauhar.
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Join us for yet another amazing practice!!! No words can suffice. Enjoy your class! And let me know how it goes, what you learned, where you are stuck!
www.yogaismedicine.com/contact
The postures of the Original Hot Yoga / Bikram Yoga class WORK at whatever level you can "accomplish" them. Whether you have a long spine, short spine, sore muscles, injured body parts, it doesn't matter.
With practice and wisdom you will start to see the non-sensical nature of the thought: "I'll go (back) to yoga when my ________________ is better. In here we can work around a cast, a sling, a missing body part, normal structural imbalances, injuries, and so much more. It is 100% about your willingness.
In this class we also went into the heart as a whole-body organ, and how our models of the heart can restrict not only our understanding, but also our empowerment and our healing capabilities. Yoga is a discipline of freedom, yet again!
Happy practicing!
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or
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60 Minute Bikram Yoga Practice / Original Hot Yoga
We started this class with two ways of thinking about connection within the body.
And ended on the topic of how we create physiological resilience.
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I just completed by 4th lab course with Gil Hedley, which always expands and deepens my understanding of human existence, minds, thoughts, diversity, anatomy, and so much else.
The power of YOU doing a healing practice ON YOURSELF cannot be overstated. It is so important and wonderful!
I also talk a bit about the upward LEVITY of the internal organs, all assisted by this yoga class in particular. Happy breathing!!
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What if we understood the "Concentration System" as one of the body systems? Something that we can help strengthen, something whose health we can assess and support? Check out this 90-minute Original Hot Yoga practice for practice and consideration on this fun topic!
Also, check out our Weekend Immersions this Fall 2023 at https://www.yogaismedicine.com/resources/teachers-training/
We have something for everyone - current teachers looking for amazing continuing education, regular students, and even those considering training at some point. Each weekend will give you 30 contact hours of amazing yoga expansion, practice, posture clinics, contextualization, philosophy, and more!!
In spring of 2023 I was led to the most amazing "required" reading for all of us who have both interacted extensively with the "western" medical system but who also have a strong desire to acknowledge and strengthen the healing process. I mention that book and some of its concepts in this 75-minute Original Hot Yoga Class.
ALSO: I have announced our Original Hot Yoga weekend immersions for this September and October, and I hope you can join us for one or both! Check out more info here! www.yogaismedicine.com --> Resources --> Teacher Training
Happy practicing!
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Thanks for practicing with us!
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In Bikram Yoga we learn, practice, realize, and train so many things.
Anatomy of breathing.
Physiology of cooling.
Cultivation of mind.
Join us on Patreon for a fuller connection between teacher, practitioner, and yoga community. A true and shrinking treasure in our digital, isolated age!!
I love hearing from each of you. How this yoga and these classes are impacting you. What your current story of healing is. How you may have fallen off the yoga boat and then climbed back on. What aspects of your life this yoga has healed. Join us and me at our Patreon Community and we will continue to build this yoga knowledge and understanding....so we can ultimately share it with the wider world!
Join our Local and Global community of yoga buddies and find out what makes this practice such a crucial part of people's lives.
We nourish hunger with food, and thirst with water.
Our healing process also craves nourishment.
Bikram Yoga is the food for that particular need.
The Original Hot Yoga is Medicine and we have so much fun doing it!!
Class recorded January 2023
East Lansing, Michigan
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Class recorded January 2023 at Yoga is Medicine / Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
November 27, 2022 90-minute Bikram Yoga Class
Addressing the perceptions of the Bikram method as harsh or judgmental...and talking about the real source of judgment...the mind!
Thoughts that Meet the Energy can Be Modified By Raising the Energy! | Human Needs for Intensity | So many amazing things all wrapped up into one practice |
This class was recorded at Yoga is Medicine / Bikram Yoga Capital Area on January 4, 2023. East Lansing, Michigan
It is not that surgery is bad, or that it should never happen. No.
But over the years I have heard of so many long term negatives, so many wrong guesses at the causes of pain, and so many side effects.
We don't have any long-term studies of a bikram yoga practice vs. the various surgeries we accept or use in order to deal with pains in the body.
Surgical and chemical medicine are very helpful in many cases. We can keep them But instead of a last resort effort, they are usually offered as the first option.
Yoga is Medicine and has more potential than most of us are willing to consider....but it is not subsidized or accepted in a big way. Luckily we know it, we know of it, and we are living breathing examples of its work. Let's keep the education and inspiration alive!
Ann Chrapkiewicz
Owner, Director, Senior Teacher
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
1355 E. Grand River
East Lansing, MI 48823
Click here to be added to my yoga email list
Click here for the Yoga Class Schedule
Check out these resources from our yoga school: * link to our book on Bikram Yoga & Autoimmune Disease * BYCA YouTube Channel * website: www.byca.yoga * IG: www.instagram.com/bikramyogainthemitten * FB: www.facebook.com/bikramyogacapitalarea
The Origins of Tension and Stiffness and How to Address Them | Reducing Interference with the Present Moment | Bikram Yoga Traditional 90-minute class | The Original Hot Yoga | East Lansing, Michigan | Class recorded October 13, 2022 | Taught by Ann Chrapkiewicz |
Bikram Yoga is many things. One of them is a trauma healer and transformer.
Although from the outside some people see Bikram Yoga as intense and extreme, it is, in fact, as gentle and trauma-sensitive as it gets. We are safe in the yoga room, and we do as much as we can, resting when needed.
But it's not just trauma-sensitive. Instead of protecting us from every movement which might cause us to revisit some stress of the trauma, we very, very gently contact it....allow it....wake it up, just a breath at a time, so that it can be transformed and we can heal as much as is possible!!
Class recorded August 2022
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
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Bikram Yoga | The Original Hot Yoga
90-Minute Traditional Class
August 11, 2022
East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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If you haven't yet, check out these resources from our yoga school: * link to our book on Bikram Yoga & Autoimmune Disease * BYCA YouTube Channel * website: www.byca.yoga * IG: www.instagram.com/bikramyogainthemitten * FB: www.facebook.com/bikramyogacapitalarea * Patreon: www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
recorded August 9, 2022 at Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, MI
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We discuss and demonstrate tips and tricks for Half Moon Pose and all decompression postures.
How to listen to your human LIFE instead of your stories and baggage.
How to practice with the exactly appropriate amount of intensity and gentleness.
Bikram Yoga truly is salve for the soul.
Some say - from the outside, or with insufficient experience - that Bikram Yoga is only - or dominantly, PHYSICAL.
But what we realize over time is that what people say about this practice reflects the level that they are working with at that time. And that is perfectly fine, but it does not reflect the truth of the yoga practice.
Deep & sustained physical effort does NOT limit the yoga practice to the physical plane.
Over almost 20 years I have heard about from thousands (and experienced myself) MUCH MORE realization, growth, healing, and change on the mental, emotional, and other realms.
Yes, the human being has physical aspects. Of course it does!
And in this yoga practice, we will explore every body part, realize every body part, test every system....
When you tell me your hip joint hurts, I will ask you 20 questions in response!
We will often start with the body part conversation, as that is the most accessible, and that which we have the best shared language for.
But that really is just the beginning.
Your attention and concentration powers will just sprout from there.
They have the potential to encompass every aspect of your life.
They need not remain on the physical body.
This is up to you.
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If you haven't yet, check out these resources from our yoga school: * link to our book on Bikram Yoga & Autoimmune Disease * BYCA YouTube Channel * website: www.byca.yoga * IG: www.instagram.com/bikramyogainthemitten * FB: www.facebook.com/bikramyogacapitalarea
Wow is this a powerful practice! And it is MEDICINE, no doubt!
I guarantee you will be inspired by this class. You will deliver oxygen, nutrition, energy, food....to the adrenal glands, kidneys, thyroid, and so much more.
We learn to ask What We Can Do FOR OUR BODIES, not only what they can do for us!! :)
Have a great practice everyone!!
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If you haven't yet, check out these resources from our yoga school: * link to our book on Bikram Yoga & Autoimmune Disease * BYCA YouTube Channel * website: www.byca.yoga * IG: www.instagram.com/bikramyogainthemitten * FB: www.facebook.com/bikramyogacapitalarea
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without collective support from people who care about this yoga, this yoga will not have a home. Thank you so much for being part of our mission!!
As you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not known about by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
But it CAN be supported by YOU! What a beautiful opportunity to be part of something healthy. :)
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in keeping this yoga alive and healthy!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
Recording from Feburary 2022
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
One of the most common mistakes of the mind and spirit that we make about yoga: we believe that yoga class is supposed to be a certain thing. We decide - not purposefully or consciously - that it is supposed to be a certain, specific, controlled (i.e. limited) experience. But here are 7 things that yoga practice most certainly is (and there are SO MANY more possibilities!) (Please be prepared for an ALL-CAPS shout out at the end of this list!): 1. Yoga class is - some days - the only place to find a little bit of peace and normal breathing, or maybe some much-needed tears, when trauma / shock / grief / loss defines the day and world around us. 2. Yoga class is - some days - starting the work of deep cleaning a haunted mansion full of stress and habits.
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Yoga class is - some days - maintaining energy, strength, aliveness, and joy in our systems.
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Yoga class is - some days - the ONLY 90 minutes in the past 24 hours where you were not in pain (or in 60% less pain even!) from your broken vertebrae / muscle spasm / inflammation / post-surgery thing / chronic pain / sprain.
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Yoga class is - some days - the only times your mind stops running its script of non-present-moment thoughts...the only time your system gets a break from the usual anxious or depressed habits.
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Yoga class is - some days - moving a body part that has been sleeping and half-dead and stiff for a month / year / decade. Thank goodness for the opportunity.
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Yoga class is - some days - building strength and energy at such an exciting pace we want to shout it out to everyone!
ALL OF THESE SITUATIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL AND HEALING AND AMAZING.... FOR NOT ONLY YOU BUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE YOU INTERACT WITH!! What else is yoga for you?
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If you haven't yet, check out these resources from our yoga school: * link to our book on Bikram Yoga & Autoimmune Disease * BYCA YouTube Channel * website: www.byca.yoga * IG: www.instagram.com/bikramyogainthemitten * FB: www.facebook.com/bikramyogacapitalarea
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without collective support from people who care about this yoga, this yoga will not have a home. Thank you so much for being part of our mission!!
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
Recording from Feburary 13, 2022
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
We visit some questions of terminology and vocabulary in this 90-minute traditional Bikram Yoga Class, plus some amazing exploration of the way the mind often works....
1) When we decompress the spine in Stretching Pose, Standing Separate Leg Stretching Pose, and Hands to Feet pose, we can use the term "Stretching" consistently. This also applies to postures beyond the 26, such as Upward Stretching, Separate Leg Stretching, etc.
However, when we bring the Forehead to the Knee, we use the term "Head to Knee" in the posture title. This refers to flexion of the spine This movement applies to Rabbit Pose, Head to Knee Pose, Standing Head to Knee Pose, and Standing Separate Leg Head to Knee Pose.
We do not have any postures where both "Stretching" and "Head to Knee" are in the name, because they are referring to two different movements/positions of the spine.
2) We also practice realizing when we have unhelpful abstract questions happening during yoga practice....and what to do about them.
3) Let us water our plants and let them be!
4) And explore the many layers or levels of growth possible....as you know, this is WAY BEYOND a "stretching" class.
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We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
There are many gems in this classic 90-minute Bikram Yoga class.
We explore the tense of our thoughts - Past, Present, or Future - and ponder how we might apply language education to self-awareness training!!
Plus: You know the difference in who you are when
a) you have done yoga in the morning
vs.
b) when you haven't?
Yeah, it is a big deal! Join us for this amazing cleansing, refreshing, strengthening, circulating, rejuvenating practice!
Recorded February 5, 2022
at Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
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at our Patreon Page
Click here for Our Yoga Class Schedule If you haven't yet, check out these resources from our yoga school: * link to our book on Bikram Yoga & Autoimmune Disease * BYCA YouTube Channel * website: www.byca.yoga * IG: www.instagram.com/bikramyogainthemitten * FB: www.facebook.com/bikramyogacapitalarea
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
We gathered today in the midst of a great snowfall to warm our whole selves up, melt the stress away, and be together when so many people feel alone.
Our group energy was felt by students in California, Holland, and several states in the U.S., in addition to our hot room yoga buddies!
Click here for Our Yoga Class Schedule
If you haven't yet, check out these resources from our yoga school: * link to our book on Bikram Yoga & Autoimmune Disease * BYCA YouTube Channel * website: www.byca.yoga * IG: www.instagram.com/bikramyogainthemitten * FB: www.facebook.com/bikramyogacapitalarea
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without collective support from people who care about this yoga, this yoga will not have a home. Thank you so much for being part of our mission!!
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
Recording from Feburary 2022
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
Bikram Yoga gives you more time in your life, rather than taking it away. As one of our student's said recently:
"After class, you return to the mundane, the rest of your day, and it is still there, waiting for you. You haven't missed anything!"
Bikram Yoga also cultivates a certain mindset of gratitude for the revealing of what we might think of as weaknesses. It can be scary at first, but ultimately it is freeing and empowering.
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
Recording from December 2021
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
Join us for our very special annual THREE-SET Bikram Yoga Class! 2 hours and 15 minutes of pure focus, magic, intensity, relaxation, and celebration! The first set is instructed, the second set is silent or semi-silent, and in the third set there are often opportunities for additional related/intermediate postures.
We also did FIVE SETS of Camel in this Class! You will feel amazing!
Recorded on January 1, 2022
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA, and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home. With your support, we will continue to provide outstanding Bikram Yoga instruction, education, and inspiration!
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported in spirit by other American yoga.
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
Recording from December 2021
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
Have you ever considered that Bikram Yoga is (or can be seen as) simply a listening class? A 90-minute attention-training session? This post is a recording of the Standing Series taught by Ann, but you will find woven into the posture instructions several gems about what listening can be, the function of intensity, and how exactly we get to those stuck points to heal them!
Feel free to listen to this even if you are not practicing along with it. You can learn so much about the postures and the philosophy behind this practice, even while on a commute!
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
Recording from December 2021
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
In this 40-minute floor series-only class, we explore a few more "advanced" themes in yoga & self-realization. These themes are absolutely accessible to the open-minded beginner as well!
First, we consider the sensations of the body other than muscle contraction and muscle stretch. Although at first these may be the "loudest" sensations, we can "advance" into focusing on a much broader array of physical sensations and understanding what they might be.
Second: does the leg "connect" to the abdomen, or is it all one piece that we have chopped up by naming? We considered this in the standing postures (not recorded) and then revisited it during the spine strengthening series. Particularly when considering the nerves that travel to and from the extremities, we can view the foot and spine as one piece, or the finger and the necd as one piece. In a certain sense, they are absolutely one, not separate body parts.
Finally: how can we cultivate willingness when our initial response is discomfort, dislike, disgust, or avoidance? It turns out that Bikram Yoga is a great place to train ourselves to focus on our respons-ability on the inside....rather than the many uncontrollables on the outside!
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, tuning in just to listen, or if you would like to be a part of keeping Bikram Yoga alive for the next generations, PLEASE please please join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
This 90-minute class was recorded at
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
Bikram's Beginning Yoga class with modifications included for a long-term regular student who is 36 weeks pregnant.
We also discuss the effects of maintaining muscle contractions for TIME held in the posture's stillness.
An intermittent muscle contraction does not create the same situation for blood flow, calmness, relaxation, stretch, or meditativeness as a sustained, maintained contraction. You will feel the difference immediately!
Class Recorded
November 14, 2021
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It is one of the keys to recovery from addiction.
One of the keys to recovery from any compulsive disorder (eating disorders included).
And it is the signature method of the Bikram Yoga practice.
What is it, you may ask?
The filling of your thought bubbles with present moment effort, attention, words, and sensations.
The intensity of this class is your best friend, as it FORCES a shake up. A shake up of the usual nonsense chatter that is going constantly in the background!
Some people complain that BIkram Yoga is "too intense", not owning the fact that each of us regulates how hard we work. We are each responsible for our own level of effort.
But besides that, I have a question for those who make the "too intense" claim:
What exactly do you think it is going to take to shake up your physical, psychological, and energetic patterns in order for HEALING to take place?
A do-whatever-you-feel-like, no-need-to-lift-a-finger approach?
Of course not.
If we want change and healing, we need some level of intensity. Even if that intensity is simply intensity of concentration, and an attempt at 50% of the postures.
The point is: don't run from intensity. It is the only thing that is going to work, frankly.
Class recorded Sunday, December 5, 2021 at
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
Practice a lively Saturday-morning Bikram Yoga class with us and learn some tips about how to get the MOST out of your Bikram Yoga class.
You might be surprised at what it will take to actually improve your efficiency, energy, strength, and benefits. It involves doing less a lot of the times.
Take this class for more on this theme throughout.
There were three brand new students in this class, so there will be plenty of beginner-focused instructions to follow along with.
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
Class recorded on Saturday, December 11, 2021
at Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
Meditation is not Something you Do; it is the Result of Concentration!
The great benefits and original intention of a morning yoga practice. It is important and so good to do it before the rest of the world needs you.
Our healing process requires us to train our systems to relax. Bikram Yoga does just this.
Sometimes you have to heal your back from a sleeping injury, or a sitting-in-the-car injury....no joke!
Class recorded December 4, 2021 at
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
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Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
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This 90-minute class was recorded
on December 12, 2021
at Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
The instruction is detailed, clear, inspirational, personal, encouraging, and true to the intention of the Original Hot Yoga, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class.
One student in the class is 39 weeks pregnant and has been practicing pregnancy modifications / Rajashree's Pregnancy Yoga along with us via Zoom for her whole pregnancy!
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We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
This 90-minute class was recorded at
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
EPISODE NOTES:
Have you ever been told to "not do yoga" for some reason?
Did you ever question if that recommendation made sense?
Did the person telling you understand exactly what we do in yoga class?
Did they know how the whole class can be modified to allow portions of the postures to be done?
Did they know that you only need to be able to breathe and to concentrate in order to be able to practice?
Did they know that you can do Bikram Yoga from a wheelchair?
That you can do Bikram Yoga without an arm, or without a leg?
That you can leave a body part 100% alone for a while and get instructions about how to do the posture with the rest of the body?
That you can do class at home and avoid the sweat for a little while, if that is the issue?
It is extremely important that we ask much better questions of medical professionals who make these blanket recommendations...recommendations that are ignorant of what this yoga practice is, and how it can be practiced with the utmost gentleness and intelligence.
Check our blog (coming soon) for more on How To Talk to Your Doctor About Bikram Yoga.
Class recorded December 3, 2021 at
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online
East Lansing, Michigan
www.byca.yoga
Ann teaches a full/regular Bikram Yoga Class and includes modifications for a long-term regular student who is four months pregnant.
Class recorded July 3, 2021
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Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation.
We welcome you to join us! For whole-life rejuvenation, pain relief, strength-training, teacher development, and the most attentive Bikram Yoga teaching/coaching available for every level, contact us here: www.byca.yoga/new-student-healing-interest
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Bikram Yoga Traditional 90-minute class
The Original Hot Yoga
Hot Room and Livestreamed class with students from Pennsylvania, Cambodia, Virginia Beach, and more!
8-year-old Lynn practiced the floor postures with us. Such great concentration!!
Class recorded December 2, 2021
at Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.
www.byca.yoga
Speed, or how quickly we move. What is its place in a yoga class? How quickly should I be getting in and out of postures?
Explore this in depth in this traditional 90-minute, Bikram Yoga / Original Hot Yoga class!
The urgency to hold still, or the urgency to focus immediately on the posture at hand....these things are totally different from rushing around from one place to another or from one thought to another. We can be immediate in our focus, yet slow and mindful at the same time.
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation. We welcome you to join us! For whole-life rejuvenation, pain relief, strength-training, teacher development, and the most attentive Bikram Yoga teaching/coaching available for every level, contact us here: www.byca.yoga/new-student-healing-interest
Our book: Hope for Autoimmune Disease: 15 Personal Stories of Living Better with Bikram Yoga
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Despite the apparent popularity of "yoga" even just in North America, the actual yoga process is not even close to being mainstream.
Yoga is confrontational.
Yoga is working for one's own healing.
When we choose to work for our healing - or even if we do it unintentionally at first - we choose to look directly at our own selves. Pain, weaknesses, habits, injuries, trauma, shortcomings, mistakes, and all.
We are mostly brought up in a capitalist milieu where happiness is sold as something that comes to you. Where feling good should be passive, where joy comes from another person or the obtaining of a manufactured need/want.
So when we take a step into a yoga practice, we are inherently stepping in another direction.
The amazing thing is that once we feel the yoga working, we become relatively immune to the distractions, products, manufactured needs and wants, etc. Because we have created one of the things that humans inherently want and need....all from within our own efforts. The feeling of the present moment.
All of this happens within a traditional 90-minute orginal hot Bikram Yoga class!
Class recorded
November 16, 2021
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation. We welcome you to join us! For whole-life rejuvenation, pain relief, strength-training, teacher development, and the most attentive Bikram Yoga teaching/coaching available for every level, contact us here: www.byca.yoga/new-student-healing-interest
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We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular. If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga
Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home.
And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical community, usually scoffed at or dismissed by Yoga Journal, and most of the time not even supported by other American yoga!!
There are many levels of support that you can give, and we humbly ask that you even ask your friends and family to join us in saving this yoga!!
Levels of giving start at $5/month.
EPISODE NOTES:
Did you ever have the thought, "I can't do this one"? Or "I can do this one pretty well."?
I have observed that it is a fairly common thought in our minds.
Yet thinking about whether you "can" or "can't" do the yoga postures is not the correct framework of thought when it comes to hatha yoga. It is not the right question to be asking.
Find out more about why in this less-than-an-hour Standing Series Only Practice.
Class recorded:
November 21, 2021
at
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation. We welcome you to join us! For whole-life rejuvenation, pain relief, strength-training, teacher development, and the most attentive Bikram Yoga teaching/coaching available for every level, contact us here: www.byca.yoga/new-student-healing-interest
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In this Bikram Yoga (traditional 90-minute, original hot yoga) class, we explore how a regular Bikram Yoga class is akin to the regular and loving tending of a garden. Or the regular and attentive maintenance of a car. Of course care and attention are required for a garden, right? And it is obvious that cars need upkeep, too, right?
Why then, in our culture, are we surprised when a lack of maintenance of our bodies leads to breakdown and chronic problems? Perhaps we have gotten so far away from garden and car maintenance....and so far down the road of planned obsolescence, that it is a radical act to take care of something for the long term...
Imagine: a ten percent intensity yoga practice, even just once a week, for five years. You with that practice is going to be VERY DIFFERENT and so much healthier than the version of you without that practice.
Class recorded
November 13, 2021
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation. We welcome you to join us! For whole-life rejuvenation, pain relief, strength-training, teacher development, and the most attentive Bikram Yoga teaching/coaching available for every level, contact us here: www.byca.yoga/new-student-healing-interest
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What a blessing to get to try. Over and over again.
What are we trying? Simply to concentrate. We get thousands of chances in every single Bikram Yoga class.
What a blessing to get to try again.
We are also trying to simply hold still.
For a while, we fix and fidget and correct and refine. And that at some point, we are ready for stillness. Time stops. And we are simply in the present moment, in the posture.
Thursday, November 4, 2021
5:45 pm class
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation. We welcome you to join us! For whole-life rejuvenation, pain relief, strength-training, teacher development, and the most attentive Bikram Yoga teaching/coaching available for every level, contact us here: www.byca.yoga/new-student-healing-interest
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Change is inevitable. Our bodies and thoughts will change over time.
Bikram Yoga is perhaps the best tool available out there to help us not only handle those changes, but also to influence the changes in a positive, healing, rejuvenating direction.
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
8:30 am class
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga
Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation.
We welcome you to join us! For whole-life rejuvenation, pain relief, strength-training, teacher development, and the most attentive Bikram Yoga teaching/coaching available for every level, contact us here: www.byca.yoga/new-student-healing-interest
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How much time. money, medications, and energy have we spent on trying to feel better?
On trying to achieve happiness?
On trying to relieve stress?
When looked at from this perspective, Bikram Yoga is the super highway to the things you have been seeking. 90 minutes is such a small investment of time and concentration. And the rewards you will get are both immediate, and long term.
In class today we had a 34-week pregnant student, and 8-year-old student (Lynn), and a brand new student (Steve).
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation. We welcome you to join us! For whole-life rejuvenation, pain relief, strength-training, teacher development, and the most attentive Bikram Yoga teaching/coaching available for every level, contact us here: www.byca.yoga/new-student-healing-interest
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Bikram Yoga long held a reputation for "no modifications".
This is simply a misunderstanding plus a bit of ignorance.
Every posture is ALWAYS modified! We modify the depth in all cases, according to the breathing, the sensations in the body, and our understanding in each moment.
Here the thing.
We do not modify the technique or form of the posture, however, in 99.9% of cases.
We almost never give "alternate" postures.
Why? There is rarely a compelling argument for doing so.
(Of course, there are a few exceptions, and a good teacher will help you the right way.)
In 99.9% of cases, a modification of depth is all that is needed.
Maintaining the technique of the posture - especially regarding the direction and position of the spine and organs - allows you to maintain the benefits of the posture.
It may very well challenge us mentally, because we do not think we are "successful" when the posture is lessened in depth.
But that is the most important part! We must be challenged mentally in yoga!
We learn that we ARE doing the posture and getting 100% benefit if we are TRYING correctly. We throw out the old habits of thought that need to accomplish and achieve, even at the cost of normal breathing and good technique.
NOT CHANGING THE POSTURE TECHNIQUE IS EXACTLY HOW WE GET TO THIS REALIZATION. If we do an "alternate", "modified" posture, then we remain dependent upon false thoughts and beliefs about the present moment.
Friday, November 5, 2021
7:30 am class
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation. We welcome you to join us! For whole-life rejuvenation, pain relief, strength-training, teacher development, and the most attentive Bikram Yoga teaching/coaching available for every level, contact us here: www.byca.yoga/new-student-healing-interest
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So many bikram yoga pracitioners use this practice as their first preventive medical treatment - and in most cases - their first curative medical approach, for chronic or non-urgent situations.
Summer started practicing bikram yoga when she was five years old, and now she is about to turn ten! The Pauly family does triangle pose altogether...what a great Thursday night!
Read our blog post here for more on youth yoga, and how to get kids on a therapeutic yoga path.
Class recorded Thursday, March 11, 2021
5:45 pm class
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga
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The Fabulous Liquid-Gas Filtration Interface Otherwise Known As Your Lungs
Q: What is that we are moving? A: NOT JUST bones
Bikram Yoga Traditional 90 Minute Class - Hot Date Fridays Edition
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In a bikram yoga class, we are asked to listen to every word from the teacher and to move with the words. When we try this, we realize pretty quickly that the voice(s) in our heads can be even "louder" than the voice of the teacher!
The amazing discipline of choosing (over and over again) to listen to the teacher's voice transports us instantaneously to the present moment!
We also learn that our agenda for the class is not necessarily congruent with the body's needs of the present moment. Choosing to prioritize normal breathing at all times shows us exactly where the limit is.
In this process we can still have a vision and a goal - to practice every posture to the best of our ability! But while striving for that goal we surrender to what is called for by the intelligence of our human system.
Thursday, November 4, 2021
8:30 am class
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In this traditional, 90-minuted Bikram Yoga class, we will focus on the fact that relaxation goes so deeply beyond the muscles. Relaxing at the level of the nervous system and endocrine system is one of the most important and powerful effects of Bikram Yoga, and it is available at every "skill" level of postures.
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Bikram Yoga: The Organ Systems Functions as One Whole. So when we improve the lungs and respiratory system, we affect the Nervous System, the digestive system, and more. Getting rid of the false separations within.
Concentration Can Only Happen in the Present Moment.
This is Veronika's 10-year yoga birthday, and she had a breakthrough in Tree Pose today! She started practicing at Bikram Yoga Moscow 10 years ago!
There is more than one kind of commitment. In Bikram Yoga we practice Commitment to a most healing and beneficial process.
Miguel (in Chile) and Veronika both practiced two classes in a row today!
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga
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Bikram Yoga and the True Meaning of Exercise: When did you last exercise your kidneys, your blood vessels, your spleen?
"Yoga Anatomy" is Not What You Think: the effects of yoga postures (held in stillness) on the soft tissues of the bodies - we are much more than muscles, bones, ligaments, and tendons!
In (Bikram) Yoga, what is NOT moving is just as important as what IS moving. This is the key to posture technique - moving from the correct set up into the posture withOUT moving certain body parts!
The Fat Layer (Superficial Fascia) is an organ! Not something to be wished away. It has many important functions, and in Bikram Yoga we improve those functions instead of wishing for the disappearance of a very important body part.
September 24, 2021 7:30 am Class
The Original Hot Yoga
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, MI
www.byca.yoga
When Your Forehead and Your Knee Become One Connected Body Part: we actively train and embody commitment with our own body parts!
Bikram Yoga
The Original Hot Yoga
East Lansing, Michigan
Traditional 90-Minute Class
May 28, 2021 | 8:30 am Class
Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga
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Sit-Up Tutorial | Lindsay's Birthday Class | Chips and Salsa Bow Pose | Bikram Yoga 90 Minutes | The Original Hot Yoga | March 4, 2021 | East Lansing, Michigan
Bikram Yoga and how it works with the Amazing Vascular System!
Debating the recently discussed Theory that Humans Want to MOVE only for Survival Purposes. Evolutionary biology/sociology really pisses me off sometimes! ;)
Presriptions for Moving as Much as You Can
class taught on August 15, 2021
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90 Minutes | Original Hot Yoga
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Some of the content here was Inspired by a recent Gil Hedley Integral Anatomy lab in Colorado Springs, CO
The movement and massage of your organs happens so effectively during yoga postures due to the positioning of the spine, and time passing during stillness and breathing
We had four continents of students in this one Bikram Yoga class!
Bikram Yoga Capital Area | The Original Hot Yoga | East Lansing, MI | August 6, 2021
www.byca.yoga
The Incredible Efficiency of Postures Holding Stillness, Breathing Always Normal | Bikram Yoga is Not a Stretching Class, Not a Flow Class....It is a Yoga Class! | Full House Saturday Class Just Like The Old Days! | March 6, 2021 | 8:00 am class
In Bikram Yoga we learn how to take things out of storage! - Having Doesn't Mean Anything If You Don't Know How to USE It - Are the "I don't want to"s In Your Best Interest? - Comprehensive "Exercise" When You Bend Your Spine! - March 6, 2021 - 10:00 am class - The Original Hot Yoga - East Lansing, Michigan 90 Minutes
Kate as ElastiGirl | Magic School Bus Adventures | 14 people in the Hot Room! | Monday, March 1, 2021 5:45 pm class
Great Questions from Dorothea | Lower Abdomen & Breathing | Pulling & Pushing at the Same Time | Leveling Up Breathing w/ a Mask | Sunday, February 28, 2021, 10:00 am class |
Yoga Postures Are Agents of Revelation and Change | Standing Head to Knee Stretching becomes Ostrich-Head-in-Sand Pose | Give Me a Martini and Make It a Cold One | Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:00 am class |
I Want To See Fully and be Totally Awake | Non-obvious benefits of lifting the sternum | The Hard Part is the Maintenance | Amy's Backward Bend and Lisa's Triangle | Saturday, February 27, 2021, 10:00 am class |
Saturday, February 20, 2021, 10:00 am class | Bikram Yoga | The Original Hot Yoga 90 Minutes Practice |
Bikram Yoga generates energy. When you learn how to breathe normally, yoga class is a gas station and does not deplete your energy stores!
And Saturday mornings are just the best time to re-generate energy from the week!
It may not be obvious on the podcasted classes, but your instructor (Ann) knows every student's name in every class she teaches. It has been this way since the beginning of her teaching; one day she even learned all of the students' names in a 60-person New Year's Day class at the now-closed Bikram Yoga Ann Arbor.
Please join our Patreon community page today in order to keep Ann's hot room open and to continue the existence of this amazing, traditional, 90-minute Bikram Yoga practice: www.patreon.com/bikramyoga. With your help, we can SAVE BIKRAM YOGA!
This class was recorded at
Bikram Yoga Capital Area
East Lansing, Michigan
on
Saturday, February 20, 2021
8:00 am
www.byca.yoga
Hot Date Fridays Feb 19 edition | Laughing Yoga | All the Difficult Sensations Other Than Pain | Erica's Stunning Awkward Pose! | Phone Charging / Life Charging | Feb 19, 2021
Which is More Important for Your Life? A Perfect Standing Bow Pulling Pose or the Willingness to Look at Yourself and Learn Something | All the Things We Can Improve in a Postures Besides the Depth | How to Set Up Your Mind for Online, Non-Hot Practice
The Amazing Benefits of MAINTENANCE of concentration | Arms & Shoulders in SSLHtoK | What? Leaving my preferences and personality habits at the door? | Remi's First Class
All The Pets Do Bikram Yoga | Learning to Tolerate Low CO2, Camel Pose, and Much More | The Stillness Does Matter | What You Repeat to Yourself Becomes Your Mantra | November 30, 2020 | Bikram Yoga | The Original Hot Yoga |
What To Do If You Are Feeling Distracted or Cranky | How to Talk about Your Body in the Present Moment Rather Than Getting Stuck in a Story | November 29, 2020 | Bikram Yoga | The Original Hot Yoga |
In Gratitude for Movement | What Does It Mean to Be Lively? | Let's Move the Parts that Don't Usually Move - They Need It the Most | Taking the Huge and Tiny Perspective to Put Human Drama in its Rightful Place | Endocrine Intelligence | Thanksgiving 2020
Thanksgiving Eve Special Class | One Hour 42 Minutes | Bonus Sets | One-Minute Half Moon, Triangle, and Kaphalbhati | Cassandra's Birthday | November 25, 2020 |
The Graceful Power of Charging Forward! | Lynn's 60th Birthday Day Class | Mom's Third Class in Four Days! | November 23, 2020 | 9:00 am
The Muddier the Pond The More Beautiful the Lotus | The Profound Opportunity of Wind Removing Posture | Training to Do What is Possible and Needed in the Present Moment | November 23, 2020 | 5:45 pm
Watch the Confetti in Slow Motion Before it Hits the Ground | Those Who have Gathered and Stuck with their Practices are True Yogis! | Amazing Cobra Yatidi! | Friday, November 20, 2020
In Bikram Yoga we Use the Mind to Overcome the Mind. | Tips on emotional and mental survival of the COVID-19 pandemic | Saturday, November 21, 2020 | 8:00 am
What To Do If You Can't Breathe in __________ Pose | The Diagnostic Power of the Postures | I am SO EXCITED for each improvement | Wendy's Shoulders in Cobra, Michelle's Elbows in Head to Knee....let's celebrate each one! | Sunday, November 22, 2020 |
Last Group Class before the Pause | Mom Jeans, Jeans Pockets, and even Jorts | Yoga Christmas Tree Expo | Ron's Incapturable Celebrity Balancing Stick | November 16, 2020 5:45 pm class | Bikram Yoga | The Original Hot Yoga |
Where Do You Go When You Leave the Present Moment? | Advice for Practicing with a Baker's Cyst Where "Knee-Locking" Hurts | Sunday, November 25, 2020 | 10:00 am class | Bikram Yoga | The Original Hot Yoga! |
Let Us Celebrate the Wobbles! | Everyone Is Put Together a Little Differently | Cassandra's Happy Cobra Pose | Today Was Tiffany's Day! | Saturday, November 14, 10:00 am class | Bikram Yoga | Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class | The Original Hot Yoga
Embodied Knowledge and Why It Matters | Forrest's Birthday | Childbirth, Autoimmune Conditions, and other Bodily Information | Ron's Best Camel Posture Ever (so far) | November 9, 2020
What Three Years of Yoga Training Can Do for Your Mind | The Amazing Improvements in Breathing When You Practice with a Mask | When Under “Pressure” You Can Still Relax | Deb Photo Class | November 7, 2020 | Bikram Yoga | The Original Hot Yoga
How Yoga with a Mask Actually Makes you a BETTER Breather | Level Up! | Yoga Dolls and Bending Spines | Thursday, November 5, 2020 evening class
Be #ElectionDay2020 Proof With Bikram Yoga | Breathing and Strength in the face of anything | Don't let ANYTHING knock you over or take your peace! | Special Class November 3, 2020
Hallowe'en 2020 | Happy Birthday Sheryl | Full Moon Yoga Party! | MSU vs. UM Game | 2020 Election Weekend | But Nothing Can Take Our Peace, not even all of the drama surrounding us | Saturday, October 31, 2020 |
Exhale2020 Kickoff Class | Gluing Chin-and-Knuckles Together, Gluing Concentration-and-Breathing Together | November 1, 2020 | Fun Sunday Morning!
It turns out we need to backward bend! And if you don't know, now you know. Imagine the classical sculptures in backbends. Festive youth class with 6 youth members and plenty of lightness and fun! Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:45 pm class
Mission Control: All Systems Go | Getting Ready for the end of 2020 and ready for the new year | Monday October 26, 2020, 5:45 pm class
Getting Ready for the Best Days of 2020 | Watching Your Brain Ask, "What Time is It?" or "How Hot is It?" and then realizing it doesn't matter! | 2020-10-25 Sunday 10:00 am class
Family & Youth Class | The Amazing Benefits of Nose-Breathing and the Real, Negative Side Effects of Mouth-breathing | Cool Breathing Experiments | 2020-10-15 |
Birdsong Serenade | "Thank you!" from your future self | Doing what it takes to show up for class | Following your thoughts from A to B |
Yoga helps us transform weaknesses into strengths | When you discover your stuck point, whatever it is, face it head on, as it is your greatest opportunity for healing | Introducing Breath the outstanding new book (c. 2020) that you will not be able to put down |
Bikram Yoga 90 Minutes | Controlling the pace of breathing in Pranayama Deep Breathing | Planting a Seed, Watering It, and Waiting for the Flower to Bloom | Cats Love Bikram Yoga: Feline Intelligence & Home Pet Testimonials | Go-Go Gadget Energized Arms | Attention to Each and Every Breath |
What is Bikram Yoga? Learning to breathe in situations that challenge us. | Backward bending is not just bending the joints of the spine. A mechanical model is only part of the picture. | We are oxygenating beyond survival mode. |
Here are 90 minutes to focus on that most important thing. Inspire and energize with the original hot yoga, Bikram's Beginning Yoga class.
There are riches and treasures to discover in your Bikram Yoga practice! Over the course of years and decades....so many successful and amazing processes are happening! Class recorded August 14, 2020.
While we experience many of the benefits we are getting...there is just so much more going on that we don't even know!
Our joyful community of Bikram Yoga practitioners loves to do yoga in the hot room, out in the summer sun, on a backyard deck, or in the smallest room of the house!
We have students around the world in our classes - 12 time zones apart! The 2020 Summer Solstice weekend was quite magical, and so were our Bikram Yoga classes practiced altogether across the earth!
Sunday, June 21, 2020
10:00 am class
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Instructed and Recorded in July 2019 at Bikram Yoga Capital Area, East Lansing, Michigan.