Bikram Yoga.

Bikram Yoga is yoga in a heated room. This allows muscles and tissues to become more elastic giving you more flexibility and less chance of injury. It also allows you to sweat and detox through the skin. It also improves your circulatory and cardiovascular system plus it provides other health and stamina benefits. For me though I think the most important benefit one can get from it is that it releases great stress from the mind and the body.

Below are 3 Bikram Yoga poses:




1) Dandayamana-Bibhaktapada-Janushirasana COG: the perpendicular line where the torso, head and left knee are located Size and shape of the base: long line from the hands back to the right foot Postural stress: in this position, the stomach is sucked in to create compression of the abdominal organs and to stabilize the spine



2) Dhanurasana COG: the upper torso of the body that pulls on the legs for support Size and shape of the base: square/rectangular shape where the abdomen touches the floor Postural stress: this position opens up the rib cage, stretches the abdominal wall, and gives the spine a 360-degree flexion



3) Tuladandasana COG: on the left leg standing Size and shape of the base: the left foot along with the stretched body that forms a capital "T" Postural stress: to maintain this position, the muscles of the horizontal body must be pulled on separate ends simultaneously as if in a human tug-of-war

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