Email to My Yoga Teacher

Tag: Bikram Yoga

  • Breakfast with the Bikrams

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    Good morning Tammy, Since I haven’t been to any of your classes this week, I decided to take my second of ten Bikram yoga classes this morning.  Despite the near death experience at my first class, I’m going again because Groupon ehounds me to see whether I’m using the Groupons I purchased.  Groupon also wants…

  • My First Bikram

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    Tammy, Tonight was my first Bikram yoga class.  I don’t know if I can go back but I’ve already paid for 9 more lessons. When I walked in the studio door it was already a little steamy.  Okay I thought, this is really going to be exhilarating.   When the teacher arrived she asked for my…

  • Bikram Yoga

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    Tammy, I’m confused about something I’ve never done before:  Bikram yoga.  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?  Did he pay the yoga gods a lot of money?  Are Patanjali and Pattabhi Jois rolling over in their…

  • What’s Love Got to Do With Yoga?

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    Tammy, At the end of today’s class you said, “yoga is love.” It’s hard to think a couple could meet in a yoga class. The mate selection process is a little different, if not impossible, that’s for sure. The women are all decked out in their designer yoga capri pants and matching tops with coordinated…