What’s Your Yoga Style? – Bikram
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3. Bikram
Who it’s for:
Yoga students looking for an unusual and challenging way to improve flexibility.
Mind-body benefits:
Bikram is done in a room heated to about 100 degrees, which warms the muscles so that you can ease into the poses, explains Jonathan Burbank, owner of Bikram Yoga in Boston. The series of 26 poses, repeated several times and in the same order, are each held for 10 seconds to one minute.
Take home move:
Half moon. After taking a hot shower to warm your muscles, stand with feet together, arms extended overhead, palms and fingers together. With arms pressed against ears, stretch torso as high as you can toward the ceiling. Gazing at a point directly in front of you, slowly bend to your right while simultaneously pressing hips left, keeping torso facing front and arms straight. Hold for one minute; repeat on other side.
Works:
Stretches hips, shoulders
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