Can I lose Weight?
YES! Increased body awareness changes eating habits and helps you make a positive connection with your body's well-being and calms your nervous system. The combination of sweating and developing muscle tone will melt the fat off your body with consistent practice. The yoga postures also have internal benefits to all the organs and systems in the body, such normalizing the Digestive System and the Endocrine System, regulating metabolism, and maintaining Cardiovascular health. These processes help to sustain a normal and healthy body weight for each respective student.

What if I'm not Flexible?
GOOD!
A popular misconception among people who have never tried yoga is that you must be physically flexible in order to practice yoga. What you do need is a flexible mind, allowing yourself to relax and internally heat the body through breath and movement with the ultimate goal to increase your flexibility. A yoga pose will expose blocks and imbalances. Soon the tension will release and your range of motion will naturally increase. As you improve circulation of blood and oxygen to tight, fragile, blocked areas of your body, you will gain more elasticity and flexibility. Remember, it is not about the depth of the postures or HOW flexible you are, it is about proper alignment, form, and progress in every posture.

Why the Heat?
Have you ever run outside during the cold winter months and felt tight, and maybe even pulled a muscle? This is one of the very reasons why we practice yoga in a heated room - to prevent injury. Stretching your joints in a hot room enables you to maximize the blood flow to your muscles and thus, quickly loosen up tight muscles and joints, and increase flexibility in less time! Heat also produces sweat and a detoxification process, which further nourishes youthful, supple, and radiant skin.

What if I dislike the heat?
Acclimatization is a way to train the body to tolerate a particular environment. By coming to class a minimum of 3 times per week, the body will adapt to heat stress by stimulating physiological changes that improve heat tolerance. The physiological changes include changes to cardiovascular function and autonomic nervous system adaptations. AND you will learn to love the heat!

Is this a Beginners Class?
YES! The Bikram Yoga class is FOR beginners! Anyone and everyone can practice Bikram yoga sequence, from beginner to intermediate. The magic of the class is that each person can work at his/her own level and progress at his/her own pace. There is no competition, nor winner or loser. Wherever you are is wherever you are. As long as you put in 100% effort, you gain 100% benefit in return!

Who can Benefit?
Everyone - men and women, regardless of age, physical condition or athletic ability.