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The man who made Bikram, Bikram, was his beloved and respected Guru, Sri Bishnu Charan Ghosh. Bikram does not get tired of mentioning his Guru when he is explaining something. He says I’m only forwarding his message. From the way he talks about his Guru one can feel the love and respect Bikram had for his teacher. Bikram says, “My Guru saved my life.”

"In the early 1930's, Yogananda and his youngest brother, Bishnu Ghosh, traveled together throughout the United States giving lectures and demonstrations of physical culture including bodybuilding and Hatha Yoga. At Yogananda's request my guru also started teaching Hatha Yoga at the Self-Realization fellowship. Ghosh inspired both children and adults to strengthen their bodies and minds. My guru also originated bodybuilding contests in America, founding the Mr. Universe contest and acting as it's chief judge in 1948. He was an Olympic judge, a member of the International Olympic Committee, and founder of the International Weightlifting and Body Building Federation. He also became a visiting professor at Columbia University, though he continued to return to India often in order to train yogis at his own school, Ghosh's College of Physical Education, in Calcutta."

Bikram Choudhury.
Book: Bikram Yoga (the orange book)
page 63

Bikram says his Guru, Bishnu Ghosh saved his life by saving his knee. Bikram had weights fall on his knee in a contest which destroyed his knee. His guru rehabilitated and reconstructed his knee back to new with the healing practice of Hatha Yoga postures and breathing techniques. Whatever we have learned from Bikram, he says, they are all teachings of my guru.

Thank You Guru Ji for teaching Bikram who did a miraculous job in spreading your word and your work to the whole world. Humans of Bikram Yoga all over the world are grateful to you for your contributions in the way we are using yoga as a self-care tool today.

Thank you Bikram for teaching us your Guru’s way, the right way and the hard way. We will keep on keeping on.

Namaskaram 🙏🏽❤️✨

You Know All Those Things You’ve Always Wanted To Do You know all those things you’ve always wanted to do? You should do them.

A 360° overview of Camel Pose (Ustrasana) | Om Yoga Magazine Camel Pose is a dynamic backbend that opens your chest and increases the mobility of your shoulders. It is an excellent pose to practice after long periods of

Camel pose Ustrasana is only 30 years gap between the pictures. So many benefits we can gain for our health and well-being by practicing regularly.

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Bikram Yoga class is a gas station, it is the only place in the world where you gain energy, instead of losing it. Practicing Yoga Asana is the only natural physical activity in the world, because it is scientific. With the help of science, we can explain nature.

Bikram Yoga Dialogue.

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Some midweek motivation for you 🌟

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Bikram Yoga is for every BODY.

Every type of body can practice Bikram Yoga no matter the shape, size, colour, gender or ability. Bikram says "You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from scratch once again.”

Whether you've been playing sports all your life or you've never played any sports in your life, whether you've been physically active or haven't had any experience in physical fitness, the genius sequence of the 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises will guide your mind and body through a moving meditation. You can start Bikram Yoga at any age and at any stage in your life. Your only job is to show up and do the best you can with the body that you have on that day and the yoga will take care of the rest. The biggest challenge is to show up. Then you have to remind yourself to breathe. Throughout the 90 minutes keep your eyes always open and breathing always normal; in the postures, out of the postures, during the postures and in between the postures. Progress slowly but surely by taking one breath at a time, one posture at a time, one class at a time. Practicing mindfully and with full awareness of exactly what you are doing will help you understand what this "yoga" is all about.

Bikram Yoga's number one priority is to heal. Building endurance, stamina and strength are secondary. A broken joint cannot be strong, it needs to heal first. Once it heals then it can work on strength and flexibility.

The two Super Humans of Bikram Yoga in this post inspire us all.

Do what you can with the body that you have today.

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Yoga and mental health. 
 
Two things absolutely linked together which absolutely work together. 
 
More than ever, the importance of mental health can’t be emphasised enough. Yoga is as equally amazing for your mental health as it is for your physical health. 
 
Yoga’s been proven to have positive effects for people with various mental health conditions, such as anxiety, stress, ADHD, and depression. 
 
This in turn can decrease physiological arousal, helping to reduce heart rate, lower blood pressure, and ease respiration. 
 
Today is World Mental Health Day - mental health should be a top priority for all. All this week enjoy a free sequence on FGTV On Demand - Calming & Grounding with Oscar. See link in bio for more. 
 
Let yoga and your mental health work together. 
 
Live Life With Fierce Grace. 
 

Namaste!

"If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love." --C. G. Jung

Art | 'Heartfelt Thoughts' by Catrin Welz-Stein

There is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

C. G. Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Today is Rumi Day, celebrated annually on Rumi's birth date, September 30th. This day commemorates the life and writings of the poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, or Rumi.

Throughout his lifetime, it is said that Rumi wrote over 70,000 lines of poetry, almost entirely in Persian, which are captured in two epic volumes containing thousands of poems. Rumi's first collection, “Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi,” took him approximately 15 years to finish. Even though Rumi died in 1273, his writings have been influential ever since. (poets.org)

What is your favorite poem or quote from Rumi? Leave it in the comments below!

"Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilisation take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again."

C.G. Jung