| Bikram Randhawa! | | Religious origins: | Hinduism | | Regional origins: | Yoga College of India, Mumbai, India | | Founding Guru: | Bikram Choudhury | | Mainstream popularity: | Growing from the late 20th century | | Practice emphases: | unchanging sequence of postures designed as a rejuvenating exercise to strengthen the entire body from head to toe | | Derivative forms: | {{{derivatives}}} | | Related schools | | {{{related_schools}}} | | Other topics | | {{{other_topics}}} | Bikram Yoga, also known as Hot Yoga, is a style of yoga developed by Bikram Choudhury and a Los Angeles, California based company[1]. Bikram Yoga is ideally practiced in a room heated to 105°F (40.5°C) with a humidity of 40%. Classes are guided by specific dialogue including 26 postures and two breathing exercises. Classes last approximately 90-minutes. People of all levels, ages and body types practice and start together as this is a beginning yoga class. Hinduism (known as in modern Indian languages)[1] is a religious tradition[2] that originated in the Indian subcontinent. ...
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Choudhury, the self-proclaimed "Yogi to the Stars", lives in Beverly Hills and teaches at the Yoga College of India in Los Angeles and in Calcutta, India, and other locations around the world, including San Francisco, London, Paris and Tokyo. His best-selling book Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class consists of a sequence of 26 yoga postures (or asana) and two breathing exercises. This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ...
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Ardha Padmasana, or Half Lotus is an intermediate seated posture Padmasana or Lotus pose is a more advanced seated posture Asana, Sanskrit for sitting posture (asanam is sitting or ass / aste is he sits), is a body position, typically associated with the practice of Yoga, intended primarily to restore and...
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The 26 Asana
| # | Sanskrit | English | | 1 | Pranayama Series | Standing Deep Breathing | | 2 | Ardha Chandrasana with Pada-Hastasana | Half Moon Pose with Hands To Feet Pose | | 3 | Utkatasana | Awkward Pose | | 4 | Garudasana | Eagle Pose | | 5 | Dandayamana - JanuShirasana | Standing Head To Knee Pose | | 6 | Dandayamana - Dhanurasana | Standing Bow Pulling Pose | | 7 | Tuladandasana | Balancing Stick Pose | | 8 | Dandayamana - Bibhaktapada - Paschimottanasana | Standing Separate Leg Stretching Pose | | 9 | Trikonasana | Triangle Pose | | 10 | Dandayamana - Bibhaktapada - Janushirasana | Standing Separate Leg Head To Knee Pose | | 11 | Tadasana | Tree Pose | | 12 | Padangustasana | Toe Stand Pose | | 13 | Savasana | Dead Body Pose | | 14 | Pavanamuktasana | Wind Removing Pose | | 15 | Sit Up | Sit Up | | 16 | Bhujangasana | Cobra Pose | | 17 | Salabhasana | Locust Pose | | 18 | Poorna - Salabhasana | Full Locust Pose | | 19 | Dhanurasana | Bow Pose | | 20 | Supta - Vajrasana | Fixed Firm Pose | | 21 | Ardha - Kurmasana | Half Tortoise Pose | | 22 | Ustrasana | Camel Pose | | 23 | Sasangasana | Rabbit Pose | | 24 | Janushirasana with Paschimottanasana | Head To Knee Pose with Stretching Pose | | 25 | Ardha - Matsyendrasana | Spine Twisting Pose | | 26 | Khapalbhati | Blowing In Firm | Dhanurasana Dhanurasana, or Bow pose (Sanskrit: धनà¥à¤¸à¥ सन, dhanurÄsana, is a yoga pose in which the practitioner lays on their belly, grabs their feet, and lifts the legs into the shape of a bow. ...
Trikonasana (tri-cone-ah-sa-na), or Triangle Pose, is an important position in hatha yoga. ...
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Death Pose Savasana or Mrtasana Savasana (Sanskrit: शवआसन, Å›avÄsana, Corpse Pose, alternately spelled Shavasana or Sarvasana, and also known as mrta-asana) is a yoga asana often used to begin and conclude a yoga session. ...
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Dhanurasana Dhanurasana, or Bow pose (Sanskrit: धनà¥à¤¸à¥ सन, dhanurÄsana, is a yoga pose in which the practitioner lays on their belly, grabs their feet, and lifts the legs into the shape of a bow. ...
Ustrasana (camel pose) is a hatha yoga posture, found in similar form in most of the styles of yoga. ...
Intellectual property controversy Bikram Choudhury has aggressively enforced claims of copyright and trademark protection, including the claim that the sequence of asanas in Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class falls under his copyright. This development is controversial within the United States yoga community. Some practitioners object to the idea that Bikram can have exclusive control over a series of postures derived from traditional practices. Also, some object to Bikram's stated plans to create a formal franchise of studios. Bikram Choudhury ca: 1970. ...
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The following text is based on Open Source Yoga Unity v. Bikram Choudhury[2]:
Choudhury first registered the copyright for Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class in 1979 and subsequently filed additional copyrights for various books, audiotapes and videotapes. In 2002, Choudhury filed for copyright for the yoga sequence itself under 17 U.S.C. Section 410. Choudhury claims that registration by the United States Copyright Office acknowledges his exclusive right to the distinct series of postures and breathing exercises comprising the sequence. However, unlike the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Copyright Office does not analyze submissions for requisite originality and applies the benefit of doubt on an item's copyrightability. Choudhury recognizes that the asanas are in the public domain, but claims that his yoga sequence constitutes a copyrightable compilation of information and that all the accompanying rights of copyrightability flow from his registration. Choudhury has also registered various trademarks connected with Bikram Yoga. The United States Code (U.S.C.) is a compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal law of the United States. ...
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Over the last several years, Choudhury has notified yoga instructors that they must obtain a license from him in order to teach Bikram yoga, which he asserts includes not only the exact 26 asanas and two breathing exercises, but all "substantially similar" derivative forms of the sequence as well. Choudhury also demanded that yoga teachers teaching his sequence of asanas obtain a license to use the term BIKRAM YOGA. At the hearing, Choudhury stated that he was not at this time pursuing individual yoga practitioners who do not teach but simply perform the Bikram yoga sequence, either at home with the books and tapes or in yoga classes. A drawing of a girl in lotus pose Students taking a yoga class A woman in the Lotus position A yoga instructor performing an asana Asana is a Sanskrit word that literally means a seat but in the practise of yoga refers to a pose or posture. ...
A drawing of a girl in lotus pose Students taking a yoga class A woman in the Lotus position A yoga instructor performing an asana Asana is a Sanskrit word that literally means a seat but in the practise of yoga refers to a pose or posture. ...
Open Source Yoga Unity (“OSYU”) filed for a declaratory judgment, seeking a court declaration that Choudhury does not have enforceable copyright or trademark rights. OSYU claims include that individual yoga asanas are in the public domain and constitute functional information rather than expressive creative content, and as a result yoga in general cannot be copyrighted. One legal commentator has argued that while Choudhury’s book is properly copyrighted, “Bikram's particular method of performing yoga postures cannot be protected via the copyright he holds on the book,” as copyright does not protect systems or ideas, only the expression of ideas.[3] A declaratory judgment is a judgment of a court which declares what rights each party in a dispute should have, but does not order any action or result in any legal damages. ...
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The United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied both sides’ motions for summary judgment on all issues except one. The court dismissed the claim that Choudhury misused his copyright. Questions of trademark invalidity, whether the sequence is in the public domain, the copyrightability of the sequences and the proper publishing date remain. The United States District Court for the Northern District of California is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma. ...
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OSYU announced on its website on May 3, 2005 that OSYU and Bikram Yoga had reached a "mutually satisfactory resolution" to the suit.[4]
Notes - ^ Corporate registration for "Bikram Choudury Yoga, Inc." Number: C2288343
- ^ Open Source Yoga Unity v. Bikram Choudhury, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10440, 74 U.S.P.Q.2D (BNA) 1434, Copy. L. Rep. (CCH) P28,982 (N.D. Cal. 2005)
- ^ Katherine Macham, Bending Over Backwards for Copyright Protection: Bikram Yoga and the Quest for Federal Copyright Protection of an Asana Sequence, 12 UCLA Ent. L. Rev. 29 (2004). See also Jordan Susman, Your Karma Ran Over My Dogma: Bikram Yoga and the (Im)Possibilities of Copyrighting Yoga, 25 Loy. L.A. Ent. L. Rev. 245 (2004).
- ^ John Pallatto, Yoga Suit Settlement Beggars Open Source Ideals, eWeek.com, May 13, 2005.
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Hatha yoga (Sanskrit हठयोग), also known as Hatha Vidya (हठविदà¥à¤¯à¤¾), is a particular system of Yoga introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a sage of 15th century India, and compiler of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. ...
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