Laura's review
Bikram Yoga: The Guru Behind Hot Yoga Shows the Way to Radiant Health and Personal Fulfillment
by Bikram Choudhury
Laura's review
Bikram Yoga: The Guru Behind Hot Yoga Shows the Way to Radiant Health and Personal Fulfillment by Bikram Choudhury
Laura's review
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What, no downward facing dog? Baah! says the master of tough-love yoga instruction. Anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes around me lately has gotten stuck listening politely as I gush about my hot and steamy love affair with my developing yoga practice. As I've become a voluntary repeat prisoner in Bikram's "Torture Chamber" I wanted to go to the source for greater understanding of the asanas and their physical benefits. However, because I was drawn to a dedicated yoga practice more for the spiritual than the physical, I found his philosophy and teachings on how to achieve a fully realized life to be of even greater benefit. And after reading much soft and tender writing about yoga, I love the sass in his style -- an example: "What's right is what works, so it follows that I am actually doing a better job than most specialists and cardiologists--Western allopathic doctors--are doing. Maybe that's why they don't like me, those fakers. Don't get me started on them.&q...more
