Provider: Full Circle Yoga

Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class is a twenty-six asana series designed to scientifically warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched.

Bikram Yoga's twenty-six posture exercises systematically move fresh, oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of your body, to each organ and fiber, restoring all systems to healthy working order, just as nature intended. Proper weight, muscle tone, vibrant good health, and a sense of well-being will automatically follow.

How quickly you progress will depend entirely on you - upon your natural ability to a small extent, but mostly upon the time and effort you give to Yoga. It will have little to do with how "perfectly" you can do the poses. Few of us ever do the poses "perfectly". Instead, it will have to do with how well you understand what you are trying to accomplish in each pose, how you try to accomplish your goal, and how supple your muscles and joints have become in comparison to the point at which you began. In Yoga there is no standard of comparison except yourself. To be "perfect" in Yoga is to do the best you can do.

Your instructor will teach you not only the ideal pose, but also the reality - telling you what problems you will have as you try to do the pose, what clues will help you make rapid progress, and where you might be tempted to "cheat," thus depriving yourself of the benefit of doing the pose properly. Your instructor will explain to you how the series of twenty-six poses will enhance mind and body, relax, strengthen, reshape, and heal all of you in 90 minutes.

The poses are as follows:

1. Pranayama Breathing
2. Half Moon Pose
3. Awkward Pose
4. Eagle Pose
5. Standing Head to Knee Pose
6. Standing Bow Pulling Pose
7. Balancing Stick pose
8. Standing Separate Leg Stretching Pose
9. Triangle Pose
10. Standing Separate Leg Head to Knee Pose
11. Tree Pose
12. Toe Stand
13. Corpse Pose
14. Wind Removing Pose
15. Sit-up
16. Cobra Pose
17. Locust Pose
18. Full Locust Pose
19. Bow Pose
20. Fixed Firm Pose
21. Half-Tortoise Pose
22. Camel Pose
23. Rabbit Pose
24. Head to Knee with Stretching Pose
25. Spine Twisting Pose
26. Breath of Fire