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
