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| I have started doing Bikram recently (I do another style normally) and I absolutely love its therapeutic effects. I was wondering, out of curiostiy, why there are no inversions in Bikram Yoga. Is it the heat that makes it dangerous to do inversions? |
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| I'm far from knowledgeable in yoga, but its my understanding the series was developed for beginners, and for the specific purpose of injury/misalignment recovery, and not as an readers digest overall sampling of yoga asanas.
I guess he figured the asanas he did include had a greater benefit for achieving the end goal than inversions would. Although I am quite amazed there isnt many studios with open public advanaced series classes, which its my understanding has a few inversions.
Edited by Jar 2008-04-25 9:05 PM
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| I've been told that the Balancing Stick has the same benefits as an inversion.
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| Because Bikram yoga is a beginner system. Inversions are considered advanced. There are in the advanced series |
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| I barely know anything about Bikram...however I do think the standing forward bend and the rabbit fall into the inversion category. There's also the wide legged standing forward bend and the child variation (what do they call it in Bikram?). We tend to think of down dog, headstand, shouldstand, dolphin etc. as the classic inversions but I believe any pose with head below heart share the same effects/benefits. |
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| asananow - exactly.  There are quite a few forward bending postures in Bikram's series that can be classified as inversions and that have almost the same theraputic benefits as a headstand. (Standing separate leg stretching, standing separate leg head to knee, rabbit... I think I'm missing one... ) I believe headstands and handstands are omitted because they are just not very accessible to beginners, and they carry a high risk of injury if done without proper strength and alignment and careful supervision. They are included in the full series of 84(ish) postures, otherwise known as the advanced series, which is also done in the hot room - the heat is not a problem. |
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| The one you are missing is Half Tortoise, which is also the child's variation.
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| Yep!! Thanks.  |
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Why no inversions in Bikram
