This Man is Bikram, This Man is Not Your Yoga

Hey there, Boss. Photo via the Details feature everyone's buzzing about.

If you follow Bikram news, or Teacher Training news, chances are you've read the Details feature about Bikram's oversexed culture in the training tent by now.

Maybe you caught YogaDork's review.

Or some of the tweets that have been flying around about yoga will help you in more rooms than just the hot room (ie your bedroom).

Whatever you're reading, I hope you'll take it with a grain of salt. Bikram is a crazy, crazy man. He says very crazy things. Though Bikram may be crazy -- and you should stop and consider this for a moment -- he is not Bikram yoga.

Sure, he is Bikram, the crazy guy who started it all and who franchised the hell out of his 26 postures. That little man with his hair in a bun and his black Speedo may be up there teaching class, but he is not your yoga.

Just like in the Hot Room, people love to get distracted by all the bullshit.

We get distracted by all the photos we see of Bikram posing with his hot chicks, or getting massages, or riding around in luxury cars. We get caught up in the ridiculous things we hear him say, or his celebrity status. And granted, some of it is entertaining. I mean, who else can get away with saying:

“You, Miss Teeny-Weeny Bikini! Spread your legs! You, Mr. Masturbation! Until I say ‘Change,’ you do not move a muscle!” 

Honestly, I don't know anyone else who gets paid the way he does to act as such a ridiculous entertainer.

Yogis at Teacher Training. Photo via the Details feature everyone's buzzing about.

And then the article says he claims to eat one meal a day of meat and Coke. Nothing else.

Lovely example for his students, right? How does that help him encourage others to lead healthy lives?

Regardless of what you hear and what crazy rumors go flying around about Bikram, it is still a healthy practice if you want it to be. If you show up to the room every day to practice 90 minutes of yoga and meditation, you will grow stronger. Your body will grow healthier.

You just have to learn to ignore some of the celebrity garbage and myth-making that's out there surrounding the yoga. You have to make it an introspective practice for good, and keep it on the mat.

Your meditation, your yoga.

Your Bikram.

Crow pose at Teacher Training. Are those bum bum shorts?! Photo via the Details feature everyone's buzzing about.