I would have never heard of these folks if it hadn’t been for Bookins, and it just goes to show you that there are yoga gems to be found outside the corporate offices of Gaiam. I am very selective about my yoga DVDs, and I find that most of the mainstream ones offered just don’t [...]
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I’ve just started learning the Bikram series at home. Living in Los Angeles, I’d actually love to experience the bombastic personality Bikram in person (his school is a short drive away), but I can’t. Hot yoga is counterindicated for my chronic fatigue syndrome.
(CFS sufferers have a tendency towards orthostatic hypotension, which means we have [...]
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OK…first off, I take absolutely NO RESPONSIBILITY for your use of the following method. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
As I’ve stated in an earlier blog post on Bikram, I just can’t see how I’d enjoy an overheated room while doing yoga. I’ve been taking some classes in 90 degree weather recently and I found [...]
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I honestly don’t get the fascination with Bikram (generic term: Hot Yoga). We’ve been having this awful heat wave in LA, and I went to a regular yoga class on Sunday that was just steaming hot. The teacher ended up putting on the air conditioning, and we all breathed a sigh of relief. (And this [...]
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