Tammy,<\/p>\n
I\u2019m confused about something I\u2019ve never done before:\u00a0 Bikram yoga.\u00a0 I grouponed a set of 10 classes.<\/p>\n
I understand there is a person named Bikram; how did this dude get a yoga named after him?\u00a0 Did he pay the yoga gods a lot of money?\u00a0 Are Patanjali and Pattabhi Jois rolling over in their graves?\u00a0 How does Iyengar feel about these naming rights; was he part of the bidding process?\u00a0 Was Bikram trying to keep up with Pilates by self naming a form of fitness?\u00a0 Is this considered the beginning of yoga\u2019s commercialization?<\/p>\n
Why 26 poses?\u00a0 When you\u2019re crazy they say you\u2019re playing with a half of a deck of cards (26)?\u00a0 One pose to match each letter of the alphabet; if that\u2019s the case, why don\u2019t they give each pose a letter instead of a name?\u00a0 Or one pose for each bone in the foot and ankle; so you can brake one bone for each pose.<\/p>\n
Why so hot?\u00a0 To make us feel as hot as it gets in India?\u00a0 To test the human spirit when there is no air conditioning?\u00a0 To ensure that people do yoga with the least amount of clothing (don\u2019t blame me if your mind is in the gutter, I didn\u2019t say it had to be 105 degrees)?<\/p>\n
Should I sweat out these questions in 26 hours or just enjoy, I mean suffer through, the classes?<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tammy, I\u2019m confused about something I\u2019ve never done before:\u00a0 Bikram yoga.\u00a0 I grouponed a set of 10 classes. I understand there is a person named Bikram; how did this dude get a yoga named after him?\u00a0 Did he pay the yoga gods a lot of money?\u00a0 Are Patanjali and Pattabhi Jois rolling over in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[50,74,12,20],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikram-yoga","tag-bikram-yoga","tag-hot-yoga","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-teacher-2"],"yoast_head":"\n