After a very intense week, yesterday I found myself high up in the rocky mountains. The thin air, the high altitude– and yet, I felt like I could breathe like I haven’t been able to in weeks. It provided me an opportunity to deeply reflect on my journey with yoga; the journey that began with [...]
About fifty breaths into my first yoga class I realized that my life had been saved. In the beginning of the practice my shins and the tops of my feet were on fire. Each inhale I took in struggled against a cage of tension in my back body. While my lungs strained to fill against [...]
Freelance writer, Megan Doll, interviews Bonnie Jones Reynolds, author of Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class. M: How is it that you came to Bikram yoga? B: I came to Bikram Yoga I believe it was late 1973 or 1974. I was married to Gene Reynolds who was the producer of Mash, and one night Loretta Swit, who was [...]
Email sent to Greg by a current Bikram studio owner: When Greg came to our teacher training at Bikram’s Yoga College of India over 11 yrs ago we learned a lot from him and had great respect for him as a teacher but this respect has been crushed many times over at this point. We [...]
The studio owners and teachers in the Bikram Yoga community are some of the most strongly committed yoga practitioners anywhere. Many have firsthand experience of yoga’s power to transform bodies and lives, and this experience moved them to then spend nine weeks, countless hours, and thousands of dollars in order to become proficient at sharing [...]
By Paul Sutherland Someday my son, Patrick, might wish to be a yoga instructor. He is fascinated by the poses that I have programmed into my iPad and has spent hours looking at them and then modeling the poses. He is very proud of his “boat pose” that his instructor, Aunt Vanessa, taught him. Someday [...]
From the Editor-in-Chief, Spirituality & Health Magazine: Forgive the language in this story. It’s a locker room tale about a yoga mogul who reminds me of an Eastern version of Arthur Jones, the late American fitness mogul. Art Jones was a workout fanatic who came to the Mr. America Contest in 1970 with the prototype [...]
