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- Buddha

More About Bikram…

Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India. Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram began learning Hatha Yoga at the age of four with Bishnu Ghosh, brother of Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi, founder of the Self Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles). Ghosh was a celebrated physical culturist and the first to scientifically document Yoga's ability to cure chronic physical ailments and heal the body. Bikram practiced Yoga four to six hours a day with six thousand other students at Ghosh's College of Physical Education in Calcutta. By age eleven, he was the youngest contestant ever to win the National India Yoga Competition. He was undefeated for three years.

At seventeen, an injury to his knee during a weight-lifting accident brought the prediction from leading European doctors that he would never walk again. Not accepting their pronouncement, he had himself carried back to Bishnu Ghosh's school, for he knew that if anyone could help to heal his knee, it was his teacher. With the guidance of his guru, Bikram created his 26 posture series which restored his health. Six months later, his knee had totally recovered. Combining Eastern discipline and Western medicine, Bikram perfected his comprehensive system suitable for all ages and levels of fitness. Bikram was asked by Ghosh to start several Yoga schools in India. The schools were so successful that at Bishnu's request Bikram traveled to Japan and opened two more. He has since brought his curative methods of Yoga around the world.

Bikram Choudhury founded the Yoga College of India in Beverly Hills, California, in 1974. Since that time he has been healing thousands of students at his school in Beverly Hills, traveling the world extensively teaching his yoga, and bringing the benefits of health and happiness to millions of students worldwide. He is one of the pre-eminent Hatha yoga masters living today.

For more information on Bikram Choudhury and Bikram Yoga, please visit www.bikramyoga.com

	"Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul."
	- Bikram Choudhury