Whats so Hot about Hot Yoga?
At Bikram Yoga Lower East Side we feature the most exciting, effective, fun and fantastic Hot Yoga class in the world. Stretching, sweating, and smiling in our beautiful new studio will do more for your health, body, and general well-being than you ever imagined possible. Bikram Yoga is a very precisely designed yoga series that takes you through 26 postures, warming and stretching muscles, ligaments and tendons in the order in which they should be stretched. To hop into pose 15, for instance, without having prepared the necessary muscles, could have the same unhappy results as jumping off the subway and straight into the splits. Oouch. Bikram’s series is UNIQUE in the way that each posture prepares the body for the posture that follows. The result is a very safe, effective, holistic series that can be practiced by anyone of ANY AGE or FITNESS LEVEL. HOW DOES IT WORK? Bikram Yoga works by something called the tourniquet effect: stretching, balancing, and creating pressure all at the sa
