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in reply to: Bikram and Yoga #9060
Maybe some people don’t want to be public with what they do? It took David Lynch 30 years to come out and talk about his practice of Transcendental Meditation…
in reply to: Bikram and Yoga #9059I took a class with Bikram once. He is funny. Super energetic!
in reply to: Bikram and Yoga #9054I wouldn’t be surprised if he did do a a yoga therapy with Nixon. I see so many celebreties into Transcendental Meditation… so why not Hatha Yoga.
in reply to: Bikram and Yoga #9051Yes … unsubstantiated. It’s a story.
I read he did Yoga therapy with bathtube and epsom salt to help Nixon.in reply to: 30 day Challenge #8931Listen to your body. Monitor your breath. If you can’t breath through your nose, hold back until you can again. Monitir your form, if you can’t maintainn form, hold back. It is that simple, really. It is the ayurvedic approach. There are books about it, I would suggest Body, Mind and Sports by John Douillard. His ayurvedic principles changed my life. being a pro skateboarder I was overtrained. Now I monitor breath and form when skating and when doing my Yoga. It is the 50% rule. If you use nasal breathing and hold form you are within the 50% of maximum effort. Now I still skate and compete, done it for 33 years now. I have a herniated disc and Bikram Yoga is healing it. For a few months I did doubles at home.
I “kill myself” when doing my Bikram Yoga, but only to the extent of still being able to breath through the nose, and hold form. The pian from the stretch should be a good pain, not an injury pain. Killing will mean you work hard, but with nasal breathing and form and focus ans concentration, and you kill your ego. You will transcend. That is the killing, the killing of the ego.
If you breath through your mouth you will activate the sympathetic nervous, and that will put your body under stress and in the end lead to all different kinds of diseases. Breathing through your mouth will trigger the fight or flight response. The goal of Yoga is to release stress, not build up stress.
So, go “kill yourself”, but monitor your breath and your form. Enjoy!
in reply to: Drill sargent instructor #8368I prefer to do my Bikram Yoga at home. Not only is it far too a studio, but I get more into my own flow. After all, Yogis did do thier Yoga alone…
Doing it alone it does take shorter time as Bikram writes in his book. It takes around 1 hour – 1 hour 10 min.
I can’t heat my livingtoom up too much, but put a heater behind me so it gets a bit warmer.
I also beleive in the Ayurvedic “No pain, most gain”, and what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi said: “Do less, accomlish more, do nothing accomplish everything”. But for that it takes Unity Counciosness.
I do the TM-Sidhiprogram, and Bikram Yoga really helps making the program deeper, and I can sit more upright with a good posture for an extended time without discomfort.
Bit for the no pain… well, it it sa bit painful with the yoga as I am having a herniated disc, but it is getting better.
in reply to: Colds and hot yoga #7957Yes, get well first, but as Bikram says, during a cold or flu do the standing series.
in reply to: Colds and hot yoga #7939I agree with Gabrielle. Stay at home. Turn on the aheater at home and do the standing series, you will be amazed!
in reply to: Colds and hot yoga #7928In Bikrams book he says one should do the standing series. When I have a cold, which is rarely these days probably because I practice Biktam Yoga and meditate with TM and drick Tahitian Noni Juice and lean towards ayurveda, I do the standing series but only each pose once.
in reply to: Herniated disc with sciatic pain #7834I also wonder abour modifications in the Head to knee pose and Stretching pose? Those are so very difficult and painful, even hard to sit in the starting position. When I take my painkilelrs and they are doing thier job, it works a bit better.
in reply to: Advanced series changing my practice for the worse? #7471Ayurveda is a good resourse to look at about cold water… Yoga and Ayurveda go hand in hand. I would recommend Maharishi Ayurveda.
in reply to: Injury when I was better than for a long time… #7468Doing the cobra every 3 hours now. And end with cobra on elbows. It is releiving.
in reply to: Bikram Yoga in new modified ways #7243I hae not tried those inversion tables in 10 years…
X.-Rays shows a slightly decomressed disc in the very lower back, and the lower back is too straight.
My way of doing Bikram Yoga now is very good for my back. I don’t bend backwards except for cobra, but in half moon for example just stand up straight, arms over head and this do create a slightly backbend.
The sitting head to knee is very bad for my back. I just sit straight up now, not bending forward, with bend knee, and it creates a slight stretch in my hamstrings. Standing head to knee works great however…
in reply to: Bikram Yoga in new modified ways #7192Well, I have done yoga for about 20 years… Bikram Yoga since 2001.
in reply to: Backproblem worse from Bikram Yoga #7128This is interestering: When I am setting up for Camel, the front of my things and higher up is very tight and my back feels stiff. It is hard to push my hips forward. I don’t bend backwards, but maybe I shouldn’t bend at all, just stand and gentel puch my hips forward? I might be onto something here…
in reply to: Backproblem worse from Bikram Yoga #7127Hi Stefan
This is a problem that has been going on for a long time. You have posted many times about it and your solutions don’t ever seem to be permanent.
I would like to ask you what the x rays have shown is going on with your spine. Your sport is obviously a factor in the health of your spine. I would like to know when your most recent rays were taken and what they showed. What bony damage, if any is evident? What else can you tell us?
I wonder what it is about the supported Cobra in the sun salutation that makes it feel good compared to the Bikram style one.
The other thing one tends to assume when reading posts is that you are doing the poses correctly. You have my manual and you’ve been around the forum for a long time. I still have a niggling feeling that there could be some elements of your practice that we can look at.
This has been a journey since 1982 when I first got my problem from pulling a backmuscle slightly when skating.
The X-rays show a slight compressed disc in the lower spine, don’t remember exactly the name of the disc, but one of the last ones. My doctor says it is a very little compression and my spine looks better than many in my age. he also says when we get older many discs get compressed.
The x-ray also show that the lower part my spine is “flattened out”. The doctor do not know exaclty why, and my chiropractor told me this even 10 years ago. My doctor say it could be muscles making the spine flattened out, and all he can help me with is anti-inflammatory and pain killers. My chiropractor beleive it could be something I am born with.
I always get very much releif when I stand against a wall with heels and head towards the wall, and press the lower back towards the wall, like a pelvic tilt.
If I wasn’t skateboarding, or into sports, I would be someone that have some backproblems, but not make a big deal out of it, but as an athlete I feel problems like this very much and it affects my performance a lot. I have changed parts of my skateboarding to make it less strenous on my back. But most pain and stiffness comes from Bikram Yoga…
When I do the cobra in the Sun Salutation, I do it the Bikram way, and that is how I learned it from ayurveda many years ago.
The Svaroopa Yoga was a great relief. It is more about releasing than stretching. I will now try to do BIkram Yoga much more gentle as I am not giving up Bikram Yoga… very gentle, only take each pose to a very light and gentel stretch.
In backbends I will only only stretch upwatd and maybe have my head back only, especially in Camel. In Supta vajrasana I will not lean backwards until I can sit with butt on the ground. 8 years of Bikram Yoga and I can still not sit with my butt on the ground…
Neverending story… 😉
in reply to: Backproblem worse from Bikram Yoga #7125Hi Stefan,
I’m not an instructor, but I just wanted to point out that I see you writing that you get pain FROM backbends/savasana. Are you sure this is the case? Might it be that you feel the pain IN the poses? I see a huge diffrence there. Sometimes the poses bring out pain that is already there that your body is working through.!
Yes, I get pain FROM it. And also stiffness.I combine Skateboarding with Bikram Yoga. I also do some pushups and use an abroller followed by classic sun salutations in the morning.
in reply to: Lower back pain do not heal and I am strange… #6639Thank you. And yes, it is such a relief, and I am very thankful to the Polynesians. Not only for their Noni, but they also invented surfing, took to it Hawaii, then it got to California, and then skateboarding was invented… and 1978 I got my first skateboard.
I understad about the link. This forum should be about Hot Yoga, and not about promoting ones business, and if you allow some links here and there, it may attract people who just go here to promote their business and products and not even do Yoga. In my signature I added the URL to my personal website that is about me and everything I do. I hope that is OK, I do that at skateboarding forums, and many others as well. Personally I like to visit websites of people I talk to on forums. I can’t find the forum rules, so I am not sure about the rules and guidelines for signatures.
in reply to: Lower back pain do not heal and I am strange… #6628I am finally better! Thanks to the Bikram Yoga and the Tahitin Noni Juice (Link Removed!). The Noni seemed to have helped with the inflammation.
I am not 100% helaed, but so much better than before. I can skateboard at the same level, and also snowboard and snowskate.
Hope it is OK to mention Noni here and the link to my section of their website. I just wanna help and update you what I do to heal. But I understand this forum is not for us members to promote stuff, so it i OK if this post of mine gets removed or moderated.
in reply to: Bikram Yoga Sun Salutation? #5350if you like, check out Devas Namaskar (salutation to gods and godesses, as we call them) here: http://www.tgoetel.com/POMdevas.html
Very interestering. I would LOVE to learn that sequense. But looking at the photos, I have no idea how to perform it… reading the text, still not understand. Is it being added to the regular Sun Salutation?Are there any videos on the internet of this sequense?
this sequence is very similar to what Bikram does in the advanced class.
Maybe I should not do Sun Salutation until I get invited for the advanced class and get used to the more advanced posture? But that will never happen…the Hot Yoga sun-salutations are here: http://www.tgoetel.com/POMsuryanam.html
Pretty much what I do now. Thank you! I will modify so it will be like this. I guess 6 cycles, around 6 min would be good? Not holding poses, but deep nasal breathing and follow the breath and move slowly?I noticed the last few days that dynamic stretching like the Sun Salutation, and dynamic warm ups such as bring knee up, twists, etc is not enough for my skateboarding. I also need some static stretches before (risking the muscles to be a bit weaker…) as my back problem makes me so stiff. Maybe the Devas Namaskar would help, but then again I don’t know how to perform it properly. Is it being done after the Sun Salutations, or is it added in he Sun Salutation sequense?
The Bikram pick-me-up set in his book feels great for my back, but in the book he mixes standing postures with floor poses, I rather do standing first then the floor poses. And I don’t know if one should do savasana between floor poses and sit ups? And what about the Pranayama? I like the breathing… feels like good warming ups.
– Pranayama
– Half moon and forward bend
– Separate leg stretch
– Triangle
– Cobra
– Fixed Firm Pose
– (Savasana – sit up?)
– Half Tortoise
– (Savasana – sit up?)
– Twist
– (Savasana – sit up?)
– KaphalbatiSun Salutation after the Pranayama and before Half moon?
in reply to: Bikram Yoga Sun Salutation? #5348I am reading up on dynamic stretching and warming up for sports and got completely confused.
I have to consider my backpain problem also…
Gabrielle, come to my rescue! Any tips and advice?
There are some Yoga for surfers and boardsports DVD’s, but it looked too far from Bikram Yoga to appeal to me.
in reply to: Bikram Yoga Sun Salutation? #5346I have not seen the poster.
What i needed for a warm up for sports is according to research dynamic stretches, where you don’t hold the pose, just like a Vinyasana like the classic Sun Salutation. Reason is the muscle will be temporarely weakened if you hold the stretch which is not good for immediate sports activity.
I am interested to know if Bikram Yoga has such a Sun Salutaton.
I also do some classic warm up also, like swinging arms and legs.
in reply to: Bikram Yoga Sun Salutation? #5343Salute to god? Sounds a bit, eh… religious? I don’t mind, but maybe some do?
in reply to: Yoga mat question #5264There are a lot of different types of material for yoga mats. For hot yoga, the stickier, the better. Some eco-friendly mats like TPE are not sticky enough for hot yoga unfortunately.
Put a moist towel over the eco-friendly mat and it will be sticky. Studios are so warm the towel will get moist from the sweat… -
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