Bikram Yoga - yoga in a heated room
Bikram yoga is a kind of yoga organised by Bikram Choudhury.     This style of yoga is performed in a room heated to 105F (40.5C) and delivered with specific dialogue.
 Students of all types, ages and levels practice together with a teacher guiding the class through the ninety-minute practice. Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class contains a set of 26 yoga postures (asanas) and two breathing (pranayama) exercises.Â
Bikram Choudhury is a teacher at the Yoga College of India in Mumbai, and also teaches around the planet in many different places, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris and Tokyo.
Choudhury states that his style is the only true hatha yoga taught in the West, although many of the other styles of yoga teachers will not agree with this.Â
Bikram Choudhury has tried to enforce claims of copyright and trademark protection very vigorously. Including in this, his claim that the order of asanas in Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is under his copyright. The United States yoga community has found this way of being to be very controversial. Some yoga practitioners find the idea that Bikram can have exclusive power over a set order of postures originating from traditional practices very objectionable. Some practitioners also find objectionable the style in which Bikram conducts his business, including in this, his public plans to bring to fruition a franchise of studios.
Choudhury has publicly stated that yoga instructors teaching his style of yoga must obtain a license from him so that they may teach Bikram yoga. He also states that anyone teaching anything "substantially similar" to his practice should obtain a licence from him. At the hearing about this, Choudhury stated that he was not chasing any yoga practitioners that used his book for practice at home or in classes.
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