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You might not like doing it but here’s why you need to balance on one leg
According to Dr Michael Mosley our balance is far worse than it used to be. Where once we’d spend much of the day moving about, nowadays many of us sit staring at computer screen...
The Effect of Heat on Covid 19
The heat is the key defining factor of Bikram Yoga. There are many yoga styles now called “hot yoga” but there is only one Bikram Yoga where the room is heated to 40 degrees...
The Right Way to Breathe during a Pandemic (and at all times!)
The yogis have known for thousands of years - shut your mouth and breathe by your nose. There are 2 big reasons (especially in times of pandemic) why you should be nose breathing....
A Naturopath’s Shopping Tips
Do you find yourself walking around supermarkets staring at products wondering what to buy? As a Naturopath I have spent years helping people formulate the best menu plan for th...
What Tree Pose reveals about us
After the intensity of the standing series Tree Pose helps to bring serenity and quietness in preparation for the floor series. In the beginning Tree pose reveals how crooked an...
Mindfulness and Bikram Yoga
Bikram says your mind is a bad neighbourhood. You should stay out of it! Being in the present moment and thinking less is life changing. Most of the thoughts that we have in a day...
How to get the Most from Camel Pose
Camel is a physical and emotional experience. When you get to camel your spine is warm and strengthened and ready to bend back with all the openness and vulnerability it demands...
The Thing I love most about Bikram Yoga
I'm Evie and I'm now 23 years old. My parents had been doing Bikram yoga for yonks and I never thought twice about going with them (lame!). They always talked about it around th...
How Bikram Yoga helped me get through the HSC
We chatted to Sally Bird, a regular at Bikram Brookvale. When did you start doing Bikram? It was 8 years ago when I was 17 years old in Byron Bay, Australia. And why did you...
How to do Rabbit pose (sasangasana)
Rabbit is one of the hardest postures to do, initially because you cannot see what you are doing! Sometimes, we give up in our heads before we've even started a pose because we...
Why You Want to Practice Bikram Yoga in Summer (yes you do!)
You’ll take your practice deeper. Keeping up your practice is the key to maintaining all the headway you made during the winter. It’d be a shame to lose all that range o...
The one thing that can help your Yoga practice!
Sometimes it can be frustrating as a beginner or even as a regular practitioner to feel like you aren't moving forward in your yoga practice. It can be physical, mental and emot...
How is Bikram Yoga a 90 Minute open eye meditation?
Did you know that in any one day you will thousands of thoughts? Neuroscientists tell us that our mind has a tendency to pay more attention to the negative thoughts/experiences an...
The Story of the Tin Woman who fixed her broken knees (and broken heart)
This is the story of Kassie who has a lot of challenges in her life. Kassie sees herself as a bit of a rough diamond. She’s 53, works in child-care, is a divorced mother of two...
Learn How to Love Triangle!
“Triangle is the key posture to bring faith back to the spirit” – Bikram Of all the postures in the standing series, this one can be the most challenging. It requires dete...
The Story of My first 31 Day Challenge
When I did my first Bikram Challenge in 2006 I had been doing Bikram yoga for 5 years, coming a couple of times a week. I didn't see myself as a sporty person, I certainly wasn't a...
Why We fall out of Standing Bow Pulling
This posture probably more than any other, divides Bikram yogis. Some love it - "my favourite posture!" - while others find it a constant struggle simply to balance. And th...
Why Locking the Knee is so important in Bikram Yoga
How many times in class do you hear the teacher shouting “Lock the Knee, lock the knee, lock the knee!!”? Locking the Knee is possibly one of the most misunderstood princi...
My Back to Bikram Experience!
by Michelle Simpson One morning I woke with yet another headache. Every second to third day I was waking with screaming headaches. I had been going to my physio on a regular b...
7 Reasons why Yoga is a Great Gift for Dads!
In honour of Fathers’ Day and all the dads out there, here’s 7 reasons why yoga is great for ALL Dads! Doing Yoga regularly gives you more TIME We all know th...