Bikram Yoga Online - Yoga is Medicine - Original Hot Yoga - East Lansing, Michigan

recorded August 9, 2022 at Bikram Yoga Capital Area East Lansing, MI www.byca.yoga www.patreon.com/bikramyoga

We discuss and demonstrate tips and tricks for Half Moon Pose and all decompression postures. How to listen to your human LIFE instead of your stories and baggage. How to practice with the exactly appropriate amount of intensity and gentleness. Bikram Yoga truly is salve for the soul.

Some say - from the outside, or with insufficient experience - that Bikram Yoga is only - or dominantly, PHYSICAL. But what we realize over time is that what people say about this practice reflects the level that they are working with at that time.  And that is perfectly fine, but it does not reflect the truth of the yoga practice. Deep & sustained physical effort does NOT limit the yoga pract...

Wow is this a powerful practice!  And it is MEDICINE, no doubt! I guarantee you will be inspired by this class.  You will deliver oxygen, nutrition, energy, food....to the adrenal glands, kidneys, thyroid, and so much more. We learn to ask What We Can Do FOR OUR BODIES, not only what they can do for us!!  :) Have a great practice everyone!! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * C...

One of the most common mistakes of the mind and spirit that we make about yoga: we believe that yoga class is supposed to be a *certain* thing.   We decide - not purposefully or consciously - that it is supposed to be a certain, specific, controlled (i.e. limited) experience. But here are 7 things that yoga practice most certainly is (and there are SO MANY more possibilities!) (Please be prepared...

We visit some questions of terminology and vocabulary in this 90-minute traditional Bikram Yoga Class, plus some amazing exploration of the way the mind often works.... 1) When we decompress the spine in Stretching Pose, Standing Separate Leg Stretching Pose, and Hands to Feet pose, we can use the term "Stretching" consistently.  This also applies to postures beyond the 26, such as Upward Stretchi...

There are many gems in this classic 90-minute Bikram Yoga class. We explore the tense of our thoughts - Past, Present, or Future - and ponder how we might apply language education to self-awareness training!! Plus: You know the difference in who you are when a) you have done yoga in the morning vs. b) when you haven't? Yeah, it is a big deal!  Join us for this amazing cleansing, refreshing, streng...

We gathered today in the midst of a great snowfall to warm our whole selves up, melt the stress away, and be together when so many people feel alone. Our group energy was felt by students in California, Holland, and several states in the U.S., in addition to our hot room yoga buddies! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Click here for Our Yoga Class Schedule If you haven't yet, check out these r...

Class recorded January 9, 2022

Bikram Yoga gives you more time in your life, rather than taking it away.  As one of our student's said recently: "After class, you return to the mundane, the rest of your day, and it is still there, waiting for you.  You haven't missed anything!" Bikram Yoga also cultivates a certain mindset of gratitude for the revealing of what we might think of as weaknesses.  It can be scary at first, but ult...

Join us for our very special annual THREE-SET Bikram Yoga Class!  2 hours and 15 minutes of pure focus, magic, intensity, relaxation, and celebration!  The first set is instructed, the second set is silent or semi-silent, and in the third set there are often opportunities for additional related/intermediate postures. We also did FIVE SETS of Camel in this Class!  You will feel amazing! Recorded on...

Have you ever considered that Bikram Yoga is (or can be seen as) simply a listening class?  A 90-minute attention-training session?  This post is a recording of the Standing Series taught by Ann, but you will find woven into the posture instructions several gems about what listening can be, the function of intensity, and how exactly we get to those stuck points to heal them! Feel free to listen to...

In this 40-minute floor series-only class, we explore a few more "advanced" themes in yoga & self-realization. These themes are absolutely accessible to the open-minded beginner as well! First, we consider the sensations of the body other than muscle contraction and muscle stretch.  Although at first these may be the "loudest" sensations, we can "advance" into focusing on a much broader array...

Bikram's Beginning Yoga class with modifications included for a long-term regular student who is 36 weeks pregnant. We also discuss the effects of maintaining muscle contractions for TIME held in the posture's stillness. An intermittent muscle contraction does not create the same situation for blood flow, calmness, relaxation, stretch, or meditativeness as a sustained, maintained contraction.  You...

It is one of the keys to recovery from addiction. One of the keys to recovery from any compulsive disorder (eating disorders included). And it is the signature method of the Bikram Yoga practice. What is it, you may ask? The filling of your thought bubbles with present moment effort, attention, words, and sensations. The intensity of this class is your best friend, as it FORCES a shake up.  A shak...

Practice a lively Saturday-morning Bikram Yoga class with us and learn some tips about how to get the MOST out of your Bikram Yoga class. You might be surprised at what it will take to actually improve your efficiency, energy, strength, and benefits.  It involves doing less a lot of the times. Take this class for more on this theme throughout. There were three brand new students in this class, so...

Meditation is not Something you Do; it is the Result of Concentration! The great benefits and original intention of a morning yoga practice.  It is important and so good to do it before the rest of the world needs you. Our healing process requires us to train our systems to relax.  Bikram Yoga does just this.  Sometimes you have to heal your back from a sleeping injury, or a sitting-in-the-car inj...

We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular.  If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please take a moment to join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home. And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported b...

We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular.  If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please  join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga   Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home. And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical...

We are on a mission to SAVE BIKRAM YOGA and our own hot room in particular.  If you have been taking classes with this podcast, PLEASE please please join our patreon community at www.patreon.com/bikramyoga Without your monetary support, this yoga will not have a home. And as you know, this yoga is not supported by taxes, not supported by health insurance, generally not supported by the medical com...

Ann teaches a full/regular Bikram Yoga Class and includes modifications for a long-term regular student who is four months pregnant. Class recorded July 3, 2021 Bikram Yoga Capital Area / Online East Lansing, Michigan www.byca.yoga Members of our yoga school receive personal attention, practice mentorship, and are part of an amazing community of learning, healing, and transformation. We welcome yo...

Bikram Yoga Traditional 90-minute class The Original Hot Yoga Hot Room and Livestreamed class with students from Pennsylvania, Cambodia, Virginia Beach, and more! 8-year-old Lynn practiced the floor postures with us.  Such great concentration!! Class recorded December 2, 2021 at Bikram Yoga Capital Area East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. www.byca.yoga

Speed, or how quickly we move.  What is its place in a yoga class?  How quickly should I be getting in and out of postures? Explore this in depth in this traditional 90-minute, Bikram Yoga / Original Hot Yoga class! The urgency to hold still, or the urgency to focus immediately on the posture at hand....these things are totally different from rushing around from one place to another or from one th...

Despite the apparent popularity of "yoga" even just in North America, the actual yoga process is not even close to being mainstream. Yoga is confrontational. Yoga is working for one's own healing. When we choose to work for our healing - or even if we do it unintentionally at first - we choose to look directly at our own selves.  Pain, weaknesses, habits, injuries, trauma, shortcomings, mistakes,...