The Bikram Diaries: Push, Push, and Push in 3 Days!

It's so easy to just give up when it requires so much effort and commitment. Personally, I tend to slack off and to some extent just throw in the towel.

In Bikram Yoga, you'd learn that you can do more than what you think your limit is.

You just need to push, push and push some more. And you'll realize it can be life changing.

Journey with us. We share our practice, life lessons and discoveries of and in our ourselves soon!

-Sheng

The Bikram Diaries: Heads Above Our Hearts in 4 Days!

Our teacher asks: "What are you running from? What are you avoiding?
Maybe there's something you can't get rid of, maybe there's a semblance of something or someone you left behind..." 

The Sarvasana (or corpse pose) may very well be the most non-confrontational confrontation you can have with yourself. Forcing you to silence your fears, your anxieties, and your pains to achieve a quiet mind.

"So whatever it is, whatever you're running from - let it go.
Until you do, the posture hasn't even begun."

More heart-strengthening lessons soon! 
And for now, LET IT GO. *cue Elsa and northern lights*

-Dawn

The Bikram Diaries: Stepping on All Five Fingers in 5 Days!

My least favorite postures are the balancing poses. Sometimes I wobble, more often than not I fall down. But sometimes, you have to fall to keep your balance. To gain your balance, you have to be grounded. Step on your fingers, feel the earth (or mat) beneath you, and soon you'll be able to stand on one foot, knee locked, chest high. More yoga wisdom in 5 days!

-Mara

The Bikram Diaries: Using 100% Back Strenght in 6 Days!

The Bikram Diaries: Happy Smiling Faces in 7 Days!

When they say "relax your face" during yoga class, I know they're talking to me.

I tend to wear a very serious expression and hold my breath when postures get tough. And I realize I do the same thing I get stressed at work, at home, or wherever.

"Try hard, but not so hard that you forget to breathe... and smile," they say at the studio. If you can bend, twist, and compress your body into a "Japanese ham sandwich" in a 40.6°C room, concentrate on your form, push till it hurts, regulate your breathing--and yet STILL manage a "happy smiling face"... you'll begin to think there's nothing in this life you can't handle. 

 More life lessons learned on the mat coming soon!

- Dawn

The Bikram Diaries: Inhale belly rises...in 8 days

Let go. Forget about anything. Just focus on one spot on the ceiling as you lie down and just rest. Do absolute nothing for two minutes.

Let's do it together. Yoga is best done as a community. So, see you in 8 days.

Inhale belly rises...

- Sheng

The Bikram Diaries: So you think you can do Yoga?

So you think you can do Yoga? Of course you can! If I, sedentary, lazy, morose person, can do it, so can you! Read all about my misadventures as the misantrophic yogini on www.thebikramdiaries.blogspot.com! Locking our knees in 9 days

- Mara