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[thascalos]

If Jimmy is so great why didnt he come up with his own series of postures out of the thousands of postures out there to choose from? Did you know barkan was a Bikram student/ teacher before he realized he wasnt going to make as much money that way? So who is greedy? Bikram has been quoted many times saying that yoga belongs to everyone, he didnt create anything, out of thousands of asanas to choose from he developed a series which is now copied by people with no certification u thinks thats ok?

[TheFeenix10]

I've never heard a bunch of adults act like overly privileged, know it all assholes. It's Yoga u fuckheads, stop talking about it like you're experts cuz I seriously doubt any of you are!

[Yobachi2007]

@Yobachi2007

....If you're doing the same style or method though, the pose should be the same. So if different teachers are telling you to do it differently, I think that's a problem.

[Yobachi2007]

@c1oudwind

You might be aware of people calling themselves "yoga masters". Someone is not a yoga master just because they're from India, anymore than someone from America is a baseball master just because baseball originated here.

I'd say check their credentials before you put too much faith in them. There are multiple ways to perform poses depending on it's purpose in a particular style. I'd ask one of the tregular teachers at your studio why the different methods for the same pose...

[c1oudwind]

@Yobachi2007 Hi, thks for the advice. My studio engaged many instructors from India. There were about 3 indian masters who performed differently from this video... I'm kinda confused too. I do know that many masters are doing the way that you described here.

[Yobachi2007]

@c1oudwind

It should be right arm under and right leg over just like in the video. Your studio should at least be consist even if it's wrong. You're probably at a very bad studio if the studio's basic teaching of a posture is not even consistent with itself.

[Yobachi2007]

@thascalos

Yeah, because Bikram created hatha yoga asanas. He did a similar method because Tyrant Bikram copyrighted and tried to prevent people from teaching thousands year old poses without paying him for it, and Jimmy refused to play his game. So he just reogranized it a little and now you don't have to sign over your financial life to learn a little yoga.

These aren't Bikram's asana's. He didn't invent any of this, and nobody owns anyone elses body movements.

[thascalos]

Should say The " BIKRAM METHOD " you copycat unoriginal lemon

[c1oudwind]

I've a question.I noticed my instructors were quite inconsistent with it. Which arms & legs should be at the bottom? eg: right arm bottom + left leg standing or right arm bottom + right legs standing? Wat majority in my studio had been was the latter (vice versa).

Any clue from the rest? Thank you.

[katiolable]

@Xodiac74

The Bikram poses are based on age-old yoga poses that have been around for centuries. Bikram simply trademarked the sequence and his particular guidelines for executing them, and alienated the larger yoga community in the process. Sure, his practices are great, but he doesn't own them, not by any stretch.