Bikram Yoga is a yoga system that Bikram Choudhury synthesized from traditional hatha yoga techniques. Became popular in the early 1970s. All Bikram Yoga Beginning Series classes last for 90 minutes and consist of the same 26 postures, including two breathing exercises. Bikram Yoga is a hot yoga style, and ideally done in a room heated to 35-42 Â ° C (95-108 Â ° F) with 40% moisture. All Bikram classes are officially taught by Bikram certified teachers, who have completed nine weeks of training supported by Choudhury. Bikram certified teachers are taught standardized dialogue to run the classroom, but are encouraged to develop their teaching skills the longer they teach. It produces different delivery and teaching styles.
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History
Bikram Choudhury, founder of the Bikram Yoga system, is also the founder of Yoga College of India. Born in Calcutta in 1944, Choudhury began practicing yoga at the age of four. She stated that she practiced yoga 4-6 hours each day. At the age of thirteen, he insisted that he won the National Indian Yoga Championship and was invincible for the next three years and retired as the undisputed National All-India Yoga Champion.
Choudhury then compiled a sequence of 26 postures and founded Bikram's Yoga College of India. He also wrote books and sang.
In 2006, he has 1,650 yoga studios around the world. In 2012, there are 330 studios in the United States and 600 worldwide.
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Health effects
A 2013 review of the side effects of yoga found that Pranayama and Bikram are the most commonly cited styles, and find the losses that arise especially in instructors who practice intensely over long periods of time and who use higher positions such as handstands; in Bikram most side effects arise from heat and include low salt levels due to drinking excessive water and sweating.
Controversy
Competition
One of the controversial components of Bikram Yoga is related to the prevalence of the Asanas Yoga Championship, regionally and nationally. While yoga practitioners in other forms maintain the competition against the idea of ​​peace and unity, Choudhury argues, "Competition is the foundation for all democratic societies, for without 'Competition', there is no democracy."
There are reports of both hands that yoga competitions have been around for more than a century in India, where yoga originated. The Yoga Sports Federation which hosts the 9th Annual Bishnu Charan Ghosh Party in June 2012 says that yoga competitions inspire both yogi practitioners and newcomers to hone their skills. Another goal of the Federation is to turn Yoga Asana into a recognized Olympic sport.
Copyright claim in Bikram Yoga
Choudhury has claimed that Bikram Yoga is under copyright and that it can not be taught or presented by anyone he does not authorize. Choudhury started making the claim in 2011. In 2011 Choudhury started a lawsuit against Yoga to the People, a competing yoga studio founded by former Choudhury's student and with a location near one of Bikram Yoga studios in New York. Choudhury lost at the first opportunity, and appealed the decision, with the Court of Appeals rejecting his copyright claim over yoga poses at Bikram Yoga.
As a result of the lawsuit, the United States Copyright Office issued a clarification that yoga postures can not be copyrighted in the manner claimed by Choudhury, and that Yoga for the People and others may continue. free to teach this exercise.
Training Program
HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel broadcasts a segment about Choudhury where they show and talk to people about a well-known and exhausting teacher training program. His behavior includes lack of sleep, shouting, calling names, and mocking the weight, size or ability of the participants.
Some excerpts from their interviews with him:
In Bikram Yoga and Choudhury methods:
Bikram Choudhury: "This yoga is worse than cocaine because you can get rid of cocaine, but once you get used to this yoga, you can not stop, because nothing in this world makes you feel better than this yoga."
Bikram Choudhury: "I tried to kill them, they did not die, I myself - I tortured them." Andrea Kremer HBO: "And you have to do that? You have to torture them?" Bikram Choudhury: "I like that."
Andrea Kremer: "What are some of the rules you have?" Bikram Choudhury: "Number one: You have to forget who you are." Andrea Kremer: "You've even said something along the line, 'I plant my mind in your brain.'" Bikram Choudhury: "Yes, my way or the highway You do not like it Go out of here."
Andrea Kremer: "You can be very rude, you never regret about the things you say?" Bikram Choudhury: "Of course not, why should I? I have to scream, yell, yell" You're fat What's wrong with you What's wrong with you You do not listen to me You're stupid-you fools. he is not listening. "
On the near-magical power of Bikram Yoga:
Bikram Choudhury: "I cure Parkinson's disease, AIDS, cancer, doctors know little about the human body." Andrea Kremer: "You know better than the doctor?" Bikram Choudhury: "Million times, a billion times, I teach doctors, I do not go to doctors, every doctor in the world, they come to me."
Sexual harassment
Two lawsuits accusing Choudhury of rape were filed in May 2013, in which Jane Doe accused of sexual batteries, false imprisonment, discrimination, harassment, and other charges other than rape allegations. It describes a cult-like atmosphere in which Choudhury's followers helped him find young women to be attacked. "Others in the circle of defendant Bikram Choudhury, aware of the pattern and practice of defendant Bikram Choudhury who caused, encouraged or persuaded young women to enroll in teacher training classes to become yoga instructors only so that he could commit sexual assault and/or rape them" lawsuit.
The suit described the atmosphere as a cult at a training camp. The trainees allegedly said that Choudhury is on the same level as Jesus Christ or Buddha, that Bikram yoga can cure cancer and the practitioners will be able to live up to 100 years. The trainees were bullied and humiliated and praised, the lawsuit said, and Choudhury allegedly gave a lecture in which he downplayed gays, Americans, and made ethnic reproaches. Jane Doe 2 claims that Choudhury recruited volunteers from abroad who "fear the defendant Bikram Choudhury's wrath that they will travel to the US and risk breaking immigration laws to serve them." Once in the US, these volunteers work for little or zero. pay. "Their duties include caring for her, massaging her, making her tea, bringing her food and being forced to submit to sexual assault and rape of their will," the lawsuit alleges.
Minakshi "Micki" Jafa-Bodden served as Head of Legal and International Section from Spring 2011 to March 13, 2013 when he claimed he was "abrupt and unlawful" according to court documents filed on July 12, 2013 at California Supreme Court, Los Angeles. But perhaps more serious things lie in the two years that Jafa-Bodden works closely with Choudhury, where he claims that he is a victim and a witness to Choudhury's "heavy, sustained, pervasive and offensive behavior" especially for women, as well as homosexuals, African Americans and basically any other minority. This complaint is the fourth sex-related/sexual assault/rape-related discrimination proposed this year against Choudhury.
Master Bikram Sarah Baughn filed a sexual harassment lawsuit in March (just before Jafa-Bodden was dismissed), and two other unnamed women filed a similar lawsuit accusing Choudhury of sexually abusing, intimidating and rape in May. Shea and Shegerian Law Offices & amp; Associates, a lawyer representing Baughn, now represents a total of six women who claim Bikram committed sexual assault and/or raped them. In an April 2015 CNN interview with Baughn and Bikram, Bikram spoke for the first time denying the allegations. Bikram goes on to say, "I have no intention of having sex with my students or any women... Sometimes students, they commit suicide.Many of my students, they commit suicide because I will not have sex with them".
In April 2015, the accusations raised more questions in the yoga community, including an article by the Washington Post "asking whether it is wise to put so much confidence in a teacher".
August 18, 2015, Petra Starke who is his lawyer, President and CEO from 3/2013 to 1/2015 filed a complaint at California Supreme Court, County of Los Angeles (A6037-90064). These complaints alleged nine issues including breach of contract, wrongful termination and failure to prevent discrimination and harassment.
October 25, 2016 Real HBO Sports with Bryant Gumbel broadcast an interview with Choudhury on one of his training programs in India. Correspondent Andrea Kremer also interviewed three women who accused her of raping them.
Excerpt from their interview:
Jill Lawler: "I feel so disgusting, but I just do what he tells me to do, basically, like, manually yanking it in. I hate doing it But I feel like I owe it to you, you know? I feel like I owe to him for, like, my life. "
Jill Lawler: "He hurt me, he attacked me." Andrea Kremer: "Bikram forced you to have sex?" Jill Lawler: "Yes."
Andrea Kremer: "What do you think makes you vulnerable to it?" Jill Lawler: "Like, he is my teacher He can not explain me, like, I really love him, you know? I really, really do it." Maggie Genthner: "She pulled me into bed, I, like, yelled like, 'No, stop Do not do this Please do not do this.' And he started calling me an idiot, again and again And then he pierced me and I shouted, 'You hurt me.You hurt me.' I screamed, And he replied, "It should be sick." Suddenly, like, the veil lifting, the veil that I think this guy. "
Sarah Baughn: "I want to kill myself, I tried several times to commit suicide."
Sarah Baughn: "He is responsible for all these people, all of them just sitting and listening and laughing and clapping and regarding him as a god of yoga." People defend this guy really no matter what. "
The 26 Asanas (posture)
Here are 26 postures from Bikram Yoga. It is taught in the Early Yoga Bikram Class. The sequence is taught by people who have been trained and certified by Bikram Choudhury.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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