10/04/2019
Bikram Yoga is a moving meditation. Your body moves to the words of the instructor who isn’t just pulling words out of their pockets. Your Certified Bikram Teachers go through an intense and rigorous teacher training program with Bikram and his staff for 9 weeks. You can imagine the commitment and dedication your Bikram teachers must have had for this yoga to want to learn it the right way and then to bring it to you in the best possible way, in the most simple and precise manner so you can let go of the thinking aspect and just follow the words of the dialogue.
The Bikram dialogue is a dialogue. You’ll probably think but in a Bikram class there is no conversation happening, the teacher is the only one talking so how is Bikram Yoga a conversation between two people. There are only two people in every Bikram class. A teacher and a student. The Bikram dialogue takes place between the words of the teacher and the body of the student/s. The communication takes place effectively when the students are given the right instructions about an asana. A student should be given instructions about 'what' to do, 'how' to do it and the 'effect/result' of doing it. That is exactly what the Bikram dialogue offers to its practitioners, so that students can safely go in and out of postures.
Students only need to try to do whatever they can on that day with the body that they have that day. It’s yoga practice, not yoga perfect and Bikram Yoga is a therapeutic practice which means it takes time. The mind thinks it doesn’t have time. The mind thinks everything can and has to happen right now otherwise I’m gonna go look for something that will give me that instant sense of gratification and achievement and with that attitude it will keep looking. In today's world everything has become about convenience and instant satisfaction ... instant coffee, instant meals, fast track, express ... and it's good to have convenience when you really need it. You’re late for work, you need your coffee ready, that’s understandable. But you need to understand that when it comes to your body you need to take it slow, you need to be patient, gentle and careful. You may need to unlearn somethings in order to learn them again the right way. You need to give time to your body. The mind will say this is too difficult, the mind will say I don’t have time, the mind will make all sorts of excuses and that is exactly why you should practice Bikram Yoga, to quiet the mind down and to give it a rest from all the thinking you do all day. When you take a Bikram class you turn your mind’s attention and aim it towards YOU. Your body, your lungs, your fingers, your kidneys, your immune system, your organs, your skin, your breath, your endurance ... from the most tangible part of you to the most inaccessible part of you ... every single cell in your body gets a workout when you practice Bikram Yoga.
Regardless of how well you do the physical asanas in class, as long as you’re trying the right way, mentally you end up feeling tremendously satisfied and exhausted, yes exhausted but rewarded for it. You KNOW you did something good for yourself. The brain agrees because it got unplugged from all the noise of the outer world.
I believe there are only two places that exist in this world. One is in the Bikram hot room the other is out. What you do inside the hot room translates into whatever you do out side.
Bikram Yoga is 90 minutes ONLY! 😁
Your body needs the 90 minutes to move and workout every system in your body. Your mind needs the 90 minutes to have a break and not think about life outside of the hot room. You choose the dosage but 90 minutes is the prescription for your mind and body to achieve and function with optimal energy levels.
Did you reset your brain today? 🧠
