One student's sweaty journey to Zen

HTexas Online Jan 2008
by: Robin Dupree
Bikram Yoga

Several styles of yoga have gained popularity in our health-conscious society, but few are as intense and strenuous as Bikram yoga.

Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury, founder of the Yoga College of India and Bikram yoga, has practiced yoga since the age of four. After suffering a severe knee injury from weight lifting, Choudhury retired from the sport and began practicing yoga professionally. Six months later, Choudhury, with the help of his nationally-renown teacher, Bishnu Ghosh, came to realize that yoga can cure chronic physical ailments. Bikram decided to teach his curative methods of yoga to other enthusiasts, and thus, Bikram yoga began. Read more