Benefits of Bikram Yoga

 

There are many benefits to establishing a consistent Bikram Yoga practice.

 

• Increased Flexibility
• Reshapes Your Body
• Increases Balance and Coordination
• Tones, Lengthens, and Strengthens Muscles
• Achieves Relief from Pain
• Reduces Weight and Stress
• Raises Energy Levels

 

How Does Bikram Yoga Work?

 

• The body is naturally self-regulating and self-healing.    It just needs to be boosted when it is out of balance.
• Bikram yoga provides this boost by gently stretching, squeezing, and massaging the internal organs, spine, muscles, tendons and joints.    
• It flushes out the cardiovascular system, stimulates the endocrine, nervous, and reproductive systems, and toxins are eliminated.
• The central nervous system is both energized and soothed and the lymphatic system is flushed out making the immune system stronger.

 

Benefits of Postures

Standing Deep Breathing

•    Increases lung capacity and helps with breathing problems
•    Helps with insomnia, nervousness, and irritability
•    Good for heart and high blood pressure

Half Moon/Hands to Feet

•    Gives quick energy and vitality
•    Revitalizes liver, spleen, pancreas, and kidneys
•    Corrects bad posture

Awkward Pose

•    Increases hip joint flexibility and relieves muscular aches and cramps
•    Increases circulation to knees and ankles
•    Helps neuropathy

Eagle

•    Improves flexibility of ankles, knees, hips, wrists, elbows, and shoulders
•    Relieves tension in neck and shoulders
•    Improves sexual vitality and control

Standing Head to Knee

•    Develops concentration, determination, and patience
•    Improves flexibility of sciatic nerve
•    Good for diabetes

Standing Bow Pulling Pose

•    Flushes out kidneys helping to eliminate toxins
•    Improves sciatica
•    Improves lower spine and relieves lower back pain

Balancing Stick

•    Strengthens the heart muscle
•    Improves circulation
•    Increase lung capacity

Standing Separate Leg Stretching

•    Helps and prevents sciatica
•    Helps functioning of most abdominal organs
•    Brings blood to the brain

Triangle

•    Improves every muscle, joint, tendon, and internal organ
•    Revitalizes nerves, veins, and tissues
•    Improves crooked spines

Standing Separate Leg Head to Knee

•    Helps manic depression
•    Stretches, tones, and decongests the spinal column, nervous system
•    Massages the pancreas, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, spleen, and intestines

Tree Pose

•    Improves posture and balance
•    Improves circulatory disorders
•    Increases flexibility of ankles, knees, and hips

Toe Stand

•    Develops psychological and mental powers, especially patience
•    Good for the feet
•    Helps with hemorrhoid problems

Dead Body Pose

•    Helps high blood pressure
•    Improves concentration
•    Good for hypertension, nervousness, anxiety, and irritability

Wind Removing Pose

•    Helps and prevents constipation and irritable bowel syndrome
•    Improves flexibility of the hip joints and relieves lower back pain
•    Stimulates the liver, small and large intestine, and spleen

Sit-up

•    Strengthens and tightens the abdomen
•    Increases flexibility of the spine, hamstrings, and sciatic nerve
•    Improves vitality

Cobra Pose

•    Increases spinal strength and flexibility, relieves low back pain
•    Helps relieve stress by improving functioning of kidneys and adrenals
•    Good for diabetes

Locust Pose

•    Same as Cobra
•    Clears out cholesterol in veins
•    Strengthens the immune system and revitalizes the thyroid

Full Locust Pose

•    Same as Cobra and Locust
•    Massages internal organs
•    Opens the chest

Bow Pose

•    Combines all the benefits of Cobra, Locust, and Full Locust
•    Good for diabetes
•    Improves flexibility of hip and shoulder joints

Fixed Firm Pose

•    Strengthens and improves flexibility of lower spine, knees, and ankles
•    Good for sciatica and varicose veins
•    Good prevention for hernia

Half Tortoise Pose

•    Provides maximum relaxation
•    Good for diabetes and anemia
•    Massages heart, lungs, and coronary arteries

Camel Pose

•    Good for osteoporosis
•    Good for diabetes, high blood pressure, and bronchial spasms
•    Good for constipation

Rabbit Pose

•    Maintain mobility and elasticity of spine and back muscles
•    Nurtures the nervous system, helps with depression
•    Stimulates all glands and organs of the body

Head to Knee with Stretching Pose

•    Helps balance blood sugar levels; good for diabetes
•    Good for immune system
•    Improves kidney function

Spine Twisting Pose

•    Increases circulation and nutrition to spinal nerves, veins, and tissues
•    Helps sciatica
•    Improves digestion

Blowing in Firm Pose

•    Improves oxygenation to the body, helps to rid it of toxins
•    Energizes and revitalizes the body, brings mental clarity and alertness
•    Good for respiratory ailments

Final Dead Body Pose

•    Brings you to another world
•    Increases feelings of gratitude
•    Stimulates peacefulness