Bikram Yoga of NORTH Palm Beach

Bikram Yoga will change your life forever!

Bikram Yoga will give your life balance -- physically, mentally and spiritually.

During this journey, embrace the Bikram challenge since this will be the best investment you ever made ... because you are investing in yourself.

As you embrace each Bikram Yoga class, you will begin to experience a profound change physically, mentally and spiritually since each 90 minute class coupled with the 26 asanas gives you an opportunity to reach down inside yourself.

At the same time, when you walk into class, you will leave your worries, issues or "stuff" outside the door in order to embrace the positive energy that is within you.

Once you begin to push through the physical demands of the class, you will begin to relax.  Once you begin to relax, you will begin to find peace mentally.  As the physical and mental aspects come together, the spiritual will follow.  When all three come together, Bikram Yoga will have changed your life forever!

Now ... take the Bikram challenge!

We look forward to seeing you in class!

Ok.

Now let's talk about what you can expect physically.

Bikram's Yoga Class is a twenty-six asana series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched. 

Bikram Yoga's twenty-six posture exercises systematically move fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of your body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as Nature intended. Proper weight, muscle tone, vibrant good health, and a sense of well-being will automatically follow.

How quickly you progress will depend entirely on you -- upon your natural ability to a small extent, but mostly upon the time and effort you give to Yoga. It will have little to do with how "perfectly" you can do the poses.

Few of us ever do the poses "perfectly".  Instead, it will have to do with how well you understand what you are trying to accomplish in each pose, how you try to accomplish your goal, and how supple your muscles and joints have become in comparison to the point at which you began. In Yoga there is no standard of comparison except yourself. To be 'Perfect' in Yoga is to do the best you can do.

Bikram teaches you not only the ideal pose - 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. Bikram explains to you, in his inimitable humorous and informative way, how his scientifically designed series of twenty-six poses will enhance mind and body, relax, strengthen, reshape, and heal all of you in 90 minutes.  

Your breath is your fuel!

 During each pose, you must breathe since your breath is literally your fuel.

Breath is oxygen.

Blood carries oxygen to your muscles and brain.

Lack of oxygen to your muscles and brain will result in fatigue. 

As a result, breathe during each pose!

Having said this, your breath is also your fuel for life.  In other words, whatever you are doing, whether another form of excercise, dealing with issues at work or home, you must remember to breathe.   If you can carry over your focus to breathe from the yoga class and into your daily life, you will have tapped into your fuel for life which will empower you to peace and happiness.

How does Bikram Yoga work?

By the tourniquet effect:  Stretching, balancing (using gravity), and creating pressure all at the same time. The blood supply in arteries and veins is being cut off, creating pressure.

When released, a lock gate effect is created, causing blood to rush through veins and arteries, flushing them out. Also, pressure is applied to the heart by its relative position to the rest of the body.

What is happening in my body during Bikram Yoga?

Muscles are contracted and stretched at a cellular, biochemical level. Lipids and proteins reorganize optimally in such stretching, allowing for better circulation. Joint mobility and range of motion is increased, and strength is built by the use of gravity. Muscles and joints are balanced.

Blood and calcium are brought to the bones. Working against gravity strengthens the bones. The organs of the immune system within the bones (red marrow) are boosted.

The lymph nodes are massaged, lymph is pumped throughout the body, and white blood cells are distributed throughout the body as the lymphatic system works more efficiently.

There is compression and extension to the thymus, spleen, appendix and intestines; lungs are stretched and flushed out by increased blood circulation. The endocrine glands are encouraged to secrete appropriate hormones, and the communication between hormones and various glands and systems of the body is perfected. Toxins and waste are eliminated through the organs of elimination.

The nerves are stimulated by compression and extension, improving communication within the systems of the body and supplying fresh blood, oxygen and nutrients throughout. The brain is stimulated by improved circulation and by varying blood pressure.

Bikram Yoga will change your life forever!

We look forward to seeing you in class!

Namaste - we bow and honor the divine presence in you - Jeanie Maselli, Director.