Bikram Yoga is a system of yoga that Bikram Choudhury synthesized from traditional hatha yoga techniques and popularized beginning in the early 1970s. Bikram’s classes run exactly 90 minutes and consist of a set series of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises. Bikram Yoga is ideally practiced in a room heated to 105°F (≈ 40.6°C) with a humidity of 40%, and is the most popular form of hot yoga.

The intent of the high temperature is to warm up your muscles and enhance your body’s ability to function properly, both internally and externally. It allows for a deeper stretch and creates a cardiovascular workout with increases endurance and burns more calories. The heat also encourages your body to sweat out toxins and helps to increase the efficiency of the immune system.

The benefits of Bikram Yoga include:

• reduce stress


• improve flexibility


• increase energy


• heal injuries (acute and chronic)


• lose weight / increase muscle tone


• improve concentration


• improve balance


• eliminate back pain


• lower blood pressure / cholesterol


• improve athletic ability


• prevent injury


• prevent disease


• control chronic disease


• Overall, Bikram Yoga helps promote a healthy balance between all of your body’s systems, including skeletal, muscular, circulatory, nervous, digestive, respiratory, endocrine, and mental.

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Bikram Yoga Aptos (BYA) was founded by Nicole Duke in July of 2010.