Bikram Yoga

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NEW STUDENTS WELCOME BUT BE PREPARED TO SWEAT!!! CLASSES ARE 90 MINUTES. FIRST TIME STUDENTS ARRIVE AT LEAST 15 MINUTES EARLY. BRING BOTTLED WATER, LARGE TOWEL AND WASHCLOTH. BEST TO WORKOUT ON AN EMPTY STOMACH. THE ROOM IS HEATED, ALLOWING DEEPER AND SAFER STRETCHING. THE HEAT HEALS AND PREVENTS INJURY WHILE THE SWEATING AIDS IN FLUSHING TOXINS FROM THE BODY. WOMEN WEAR LEOTARDS OR SHORTS AND TOP MEN WEAR SHORTS OR BATHING SUIT (NO SWEATPANTS)

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Triangle Pose (Trikanasana) Benefits : The triangle is the only posture in the world that improves every muscle, joint, tendon, and internal organ in the body. At the same time, it revitalizes nerves, veins, and tissues. It increase the strength and flexibiliy of the hip joint and of the muscles of the side of the torso. It also firms upper thighs and hips, slims the waistline, and improves the deltoid, trapezius, scapula, and latissimus muscles.Stretching Pose (Paschimotthanasana) Benefits: This pose helps to balance the blood sugar level. It improves digestion; enhances the proper functioning of the kidneys; andexpands the solar plexus. It increases the flexibility of the trapezius, deltoid, erectus femoris, and biceps muscles, sciatic nerves, tendons, hip joints, and the last five vertebrae of the spine.

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Balancing Stick Pose (Tuladandasana) Benefits : It firms hips, buttocks, and upper thighs. It is one of the best exercises for bad posture; strengthens the flexibility of latissimus, deltoid, and trapezius muscles; and improves the flexibility, strenght, and muscle tone of shoulders, upper arms, spine, and hip joints.Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana) Benefits : This pose maintain the body in perfect condition. It increases spinal strength and flexibility, helps prevent lower backache, and helps cure lumbago, rheumatism, and arthritis of the spine. it strenghtens the deltoids, trapezius, and triceps

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Standing Head To Knee Pose (Dandayamana-Janushirasana) Benefits : It tightens abdominal and thigh muscles, improves flexibility of the sciatic nerves, and strengthens the tendons, biceps of the thigh muscles, and hamstrings in the legs, in addition to the deltoid, trapezius, latissimus dorsi, scapula, biceps, and triceps.Standing Bow Pulling Pose (Dandaymana-Dhanurasana) Benefits : The standing bow pulling is a perfect example of the "tourniquet," or "damming" effect in yoga, because it transfers the circulation from one side of the body to the other, and then equalizes it-circulating fresh blood to eack internal organ and gland to keep them healthy. This pose help develop concentration, patience, and determination. Physically, it firms the abdominal wall and upper thighs, and tightens upper arms, hips, and buttocks.The Hands To Feet Pose (Pada-Hastasana) Benefits : This pose increases the flexibility of the spine and the sciatic nerves and of most of the tendons and ligaments of the legs, and strengthens the biceps of thighs and calves. It also greatly improves blood circulation in the legs and to the brain, and strenghens the rectus abdominus, gluteus maximus, oblique, deltoid, and trapezius muscles.Half Moon Pose (Ardha-Chandrasana) Benefits : This pose gives quick energy and vitality; improves and strenghtns every muscle in the central part of the body, especially in the abdomen; increases the flexibility of the spine; corrects bad posture; promotes proper kidney function; and helps to cure enlargement of the liver and spleen, dyspepsia, and constipation. It increases the flexibility and strength of the rectus abdominus, latissimus dorsi, oblique,deltoid, and trapezius muscles. ************************************************************ ****************The Half Moon Pose & Hands To Feet Pose both firm and trim waistline, hips abdomen, buttocks and thighs.

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I'm a Yoga School Snob!

If your yoga school had a grading scale you'd make straight As. You've found a yoga style that resonates with you, so you devour every morsel of information that comes from your teachers' lips and apply it to your practice. You've read all the books, twice. You put your mat down in the same place in every class, and your best friends are all the people who put their mats down beside yours (they're yoga geeks, too).

But be mindful not to leave others out of your unique community. Beginning students and followers of other yoga disciplines have a lot to offer, too. Welcome them warmly, and keep an open mind about what you can glean from a new perspective.

Heroes:

Bikram Choudhury - " Never too bad, never too old, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again."

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