Gift certificate to Bikram Yoga Santa Barbara for 5 classes.

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Bikram Yoga is unlike any other Yoga class. It is a series of twenty-six asana poses designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons in the order in which they should be stretched. The practice of these twenty-six poses will enhance mind and body, relax, strengthen, reshape and heal all of you over time. Bikram teaches you not only the ideal pose and how you will eventually be able to do it, but also the reality… telling you what problems you will have as you try to do the pose, what clues will help you make rapid progress, and where you might be tempted to “cheat,” thus depriving yourself of the benefit of doing the pose properly.

This practice comes from a lineage, and at Bikram Yoga Santa Barbara, we teach it the way it was taught to us by our teacher Bikram Choudhury. He taught it to us the way it was taught to him by his guru, Bishnu Gosh. Bishnu Gosh is the brother of Paramahansa Yogananda, and comes from the lineage of Swami Vivekananda. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know of any of these revered yogis. The point is that we are following a lineage and style of teaching yoga. This may be different from what you experience at other studios. At Bikram Yoga Santa Barbara, there is an agreement that all students will follow the structure of this practice, and learn the gifts of this amazing yoga.