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Stanford started the physical practice of yoga in his teens after a knee injury. Focused predominately on the recovery of his body and gaining flexibility, but gladly discovered the importance of [...]

Q&A Time 2025: How did you discover yoga? I first started practicing yoga in a church hall back in 2004. The space was cold, the floor was filthy, and the teacher always seemed to have some [...]

Tim took his first Bikram Yoga class in the summer of 2009 after suffering a whiplash injury in a car accident. A couple of months of physiotherapy did little to ease the ongoing pain, so out of [...]

2Sydney Saboonchian began her Bikram yoga practice in 1990 with Jimmy Barkin in Fort Lauderdale Florida. At the time, it was one of three Yoga College Of India schools in the United States. After [...]

When Laura heard a friend talking about Bikram Yoga in December 2005 she thought it sounded like a good way to come in from the cold and resolved to try it the next day. Little did she know what [...]

Kat:   I really discovered yoga at BYC, so it has always been my yoga home. I tried a couple of classes here and there, but nothing else made me feel so connected, embodied and alive! The [...]

Fed is an actor. But don’t tell anybody. He took his first Bikram class on 1st of October 2003 in Chiswick and he hasn’t looked back since. Having played waterpolo for 9 years in his teens (in [...]

Darielle discovered Bikram yoga in 2009.  A friend recommended that she take a Bikram yoga class after she fell off a horse and was left with an achy lower back.  After one class she was hooked – [...]

Helen was advised to do the yoga because she had years of back pain and damaged knees, caused by horse riding accidents. She was amazed at how quickly her back pain reduced and how the [...]

A native Geordie with a disappointing lack of accent, Andy says the best thing about teaching is seeing improvements in students with each class (and also, he gets to wear a Madonna-style radio [...]