Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class (Second Edtion)
Bonnie Jones Reynolds, Bikram Choudhury
Language: English
Pages: 205
ISBN: 1585420204
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Sweat, strain, laugh, and do more for your health, body, and general well-being than you even imagined possible as you take your beginning yoga class from Bikram. For more than twenty years, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class has been among the preeminent and most beloved of all yoga guides-and now it has been revised and updated by Bikram, with virtually all-new photographs and an updated section on yoga's medical benefits.
With nearly two hundred vivid instructional photographs, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is the perfect guidebook for any student of yoga, either advanced or beginner-a reference that makes Hatha yoga fun, easy, and completely understandable.
Illustrated throughout with 160 black-and-white photographs by Biswanath "Bisu" Ghosh
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balancemaking your mind and nerves begin to exercise. The Eagle stretched stiff shoulders, hip, arm, and leg joints, and woke up sexual organs and kidneys. By then your whole body and nervous system were enough warmed up and ready for the Standing Head to Knee, which combines skills of the first five and works hard on your nervous system and mind, developing concentration, patience, determination, self-control. "Also, in certain poses, you apply a tourniquet technique. That means you cut off
philosophy of this book. You will still get the benefit from practicing the Hatha Yoga, in any case. However, if with your open mind you can accept the principles in this book, your attitude will slowly change about who you are. Your relationship with all humanity will change. You will begin to realize that each one of us is one of six billion people, a part of the world society and all civilizations. We must think this xi xii way because we are not alone in this world. We are not divided up
must heat the area where you do your Yoga. If you can, you should try to heat it to at least 1 00°F. You should sweat a lot when you do your Hatha Yoga. If your bathroom is large enough, you can preheat the room with a space heater and by running the shower with hot water. Leave the water in the tub as this will help keep the bathroom hot. If you have difficulty heating an area to 1 00°, then you must wear warmup clothing while you do your Yoga. This will keep the heat from escaping your body. I
become two, and so on as you continue your practice, until finally you can hold the posture for the full time. Try the Right Way I cannot overemphasize the importance of trying the right way. It is how you try that is the single most important factor in the benefits you receive. The fact that you cannot do the postures perfectly, according to the directions in the book and the beautiful pic- tures of my students, should be of no consequence to you. These directions and the pictures are your
firmly in mind and keep reminding yourself, your heels will behave most of the time, but your toes won't. They will refuse to stay together and pointed directly forward because you will feel as though you're falling to one side or another. You'll be tempted to spread your toes for support. But keep them together and don't panic. You won't fall over. And you will soon feel comfortable in the stance. From here on, whenever I direct you to put the feet together, this is the stance I want you to