While not all styles of yoga require music, hot yoga tends to work more effectively and be more fun with some tunes. Because of the strong link between sound and movement, the combination of the two ultimately offer a positive impact on the mind, body and soul.  If you’re interested in learning the benefits to using royalty free yoga music during your classes, read on for more information. 1 – Playing music during yoga is FUN. We’re telling it like it is and putting this benefit where it belongs, at the top of the list. It doesn’t take a team of researchers or a lab full of scientists to ..read more

Unlike bikram classes, the temperature in hot yoga classes ranges from 80 to 105 degrees, and the humidity in the room varies as well. From my experience I have written down my 5 key differences within the practices that make it easy to distinguish if you are in a bikram yoga class or a Hot Yoga class. So what’s the difference between the two? Are you practicing Bikram yoga when you attend a Hot yoga class? Actually, you are not, but you are practicing Hot yoga when you attend a Bikram class. After years of going back and forth with Bikram yoga with the scheduling factor, I tried hot yoga for ..read more

The 26 Postures and Poses Of Bikram Yoga Bikram Yoga builds every posture on the one before. The combination and order of the postures offers lots of great benefits. At the end of a Bikram Yoga class, oxygen-rich blood will have been delivered to every cell in the body, and you will have moved your spine in all the directions it was designed to move in. This strengthens your nervous system, heals and prevents injuries, strengthens the mind and body, and improves your health.  The postures are ordered partly based on the Western understanding of anatomy, and on the Eastern knowledge of pos ..read more

Pose 26 Kapalbhati in Vajrasana – Blowing in Firm Sit up as tall and straight as you can. Keep your arms straight and strong, pushing down into your legs. Pretend you are sharply blowing out a candle. This makes your belly snap in with each exhale. The post Kapalbhati in Vajrasana appeared first on Hot Bikram Yoga ..read more

Pose 25 Ardha-Matsyendrasana – Spine Twisting Pose This is a good hip opener. When you stretch up as tall as you can and twist you get a nice compression and stretch on the front of your abdomen. The post Ardha-Matsyendrasana appeared first on Hot Bikram Yoga ..read more

Pose 23 Sasangasana – Rabbit Pose Now move the spine in the opposite direction. The goal is to create an even stretch along the entire back side of the spine from the head to the tailbone. The post Sasangasana appeared first on Hot Bikram Yoga ..read more

Pose 22 Ustrasana – Camel Pose In this posture you should aim to create an even backward bend in all parts of the spine, not just the easy parts to bend backward, like the lower back or the neck. The post Ustrasana appeared first on Hot Bikram Yoga ..read more

Pose 21 Ardha-Kurmasana – Half Tortoise Pose This posture involves constant stretching forward your arms and squeezing together your legs and feet in order to create an active stretch along the whole spine. The post Ardha-Kurmasana appeared first on Hot Bikram Yoga ..read more

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