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Bikram In The Shire

Locality: Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 431 792 478

Address: 20-26 President Avenue, Caringbah 2229 Caringbah, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.bikramsutherlandshire.com.au

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22.01.2022 Welcome to your three Inferno Hot Pilates Instructors Princess Li Beautiful Blanka ... and Fergilicious Michele We are here for You Let s Burn Love Transform Monday 4pm Wednesday 745pm Saturday 2pm See more

18.01.2022 Super Human: Sundar From: Cupertino, CA Started practicing Bikram Yoga: in March 2011 at Bikram Yoga San Jose... Favourite posture: Toe Stand Pose Why practice Bikram Yoga: Two memorable dates: On August 8th 2008, I had a bicycle accident. Broken right arm, road rash on the entire left side of my body, and multiple simple fractures. After being in a shoulder length cast for 12 weeks and going through physiotherapy for another 6 months, the final conclusion was you have tendons caught in the metal screws which is a rare occurrence, but we could not predict how the tendons move after we put the metal in! We think removing the plate and screws is high risk, so you have to have steroid injections on a regular basis to relieve pain from the bursitis, unless you push yourself in physiotherapy and get enough strength in the hands, in which case we can remove the metal. It was a chicken and egg situation. I could not do the exercises because of the pain, no exercises meant metal doesn’t come off, a vicious cycle! Missed a promotion at work, could not be the man of the house, could not open my refrigerator door, let alone take the trash out, and could not lift my three year old daughter, like I used to. Just went into a downward spiral of being physically out of shape and mentally depressed. That is when a Russian physiotherapist told me I have done everything I can for you. At this point you have to overcome the pain. You are an Indian. You should know yoga. Go do it!. At first I was upset with the stereotyping. Sure, as a kid I was taught to sit in lotus pose for long times, but that is all the yoga we did as kids. She also told me go try the hot yoga. It helps in cases like yours. It was also the same time when my Mother-in-Law had broken her ankle and had her own struggles. We had two overweight depressed people going through a downward spiral in the house. One of my wife’s classmates happened to try Bikram Yoga in the Seattle area and he chimed in with you should try it. There are mixed reviews online, but you should try it. So that brings us to the second memorable date! March 11th, 2011, Friday morning 5:30 am. My MIL (mother in law) and me showed up bright and early, for our first yoga class at the old Bikram Yoga San Jose studio. A Japanese lady in a two piece greeted us and said I am your instructor. Both MIL and myself were expecting a pot bellied old Indian guy above the age of at least sixty, to be the teacher. A six pack sporting athletic Japanese woman in a two-piece bikini pushing us from the podium was already a twilight zone experience. We survived that class. I fainted in the office that afternoon and my colleagues took me to the hospital. The doctor diagnosed me with Vertigo symptoms and prescribed some pills. Just before I went to the pharmacy, my wife called me and said I checked online. Looks like dizziness is a normal symptom after you start this yoga. Don’t get the pills. Just go back and talk to someone at the yoga place. That was timely. Skipped the Saturday class and got some advice from a teacher and students outside class. Drink lots of water, and by lots we mean 2 or 3 times more than what you are used to, and come regularly was the advice. If one class was enough to send me to the hospital, we were wondering what come regularly might do?! My MIL liked the first class. She said You just paid 40 bucks for the two of us. We should at least give it another shot and see if we can go more times in the 10 days. If this is not something you can do, you can always stop! So off we went on Sunday at noon and it turns out a World Yoga Champion was teaching the class. She made Russel Crowe in the Gladiator movie look like a pussy cat. When I walked out of class, there was the buzzing noise of silence inside my head for a good two hours. I had sweat and somehow it felt like the skies opened and there was a downpour after a long time of clammy weather. After surviving that class, we both decided we could live through anything. We went 9/10 days on that introductory offer and continued to go 91/100 days. I lost 17 lbs, MIL lost 51 lbs, we were both walking, I was running again, was walking around with a smile on my face all the time and most importantly feeling a sense of accomplishment after every class. The grumpiness was gone. There were many milestones. I was able to bend back and put my hands on ankles during Camel pose on day 10, on the 100th class I was able to put my butt on the floor between my feet and have my heels touch the sides of my hips in Supta Vajrasana. The nerd in me was documenting all these things with great detail on my blog. A spreadsheet was started, with my weight measured after class, how many poses did I miss in every class, who taught me when, what I was paying on average in a membership. There were statistical plots and auto generated scripts to make this more fun, fun for me! My teachers at BYSJ repeatedly tell me, it is about the journey, not the destination. It is a practice. I like Bikram's quote, "To fall down is human, to get back up means you're a yogi! There was a time when I did not get it. After a few hundred classes, it did eventually dawn on me that eventually was a euphemism for maybe in your next birth, or the one after that. You are trying to get better than the 'you' that you were yesterday. You are trying to get better in the second set. That is all there is to it. The mind and body have to cross a few challenges to get to a happy place, and once it happens and the most interesting part is that it doesn’t last. That was another lesson learned. You cannot appreciate light without darkness and vice versa. To sum it up, what I have gained from this practice: 1. A stable weight, ability to eat a lot of great food and still have a stable weight 2. Glowing skin 3. No bad breath 4. Clean sinuses 5. Improved vision 6. Balance between strength and flexibility 7. Ability to calm down on demand 8. Ability to care about something while completely ignoring other things (this is a very important life skill which we use every day a zillion times but we have to perfect it as the ability to use this skill is inversely proportional to the urgency with which it is required). I may have gone all techie on you there with that last sentence. To put it with examples, when you are trying to listen to your wife screaming instructions at you from the kitchen while simultaneously watching an important cricket match, you need to have the ability to ignore your wife’s instruction and watch the match. The more critical the instruction, the more you should be able to ignore it. It is easier said than done. I might have gotten things mixed up in what to hear and what to ignore, but you get the point! Let’s get to my specific case with the arm! Before Bikram Yoga, I was overweight, depressed and it was all mostly because of the arm that looked frail with no muscle. The tendons were still rubbing against the screws. After about six months of the yoga, I went back to the hospital. There was enough muscle on the hand to make a case to the doctors to get rid of the metal and they agreed! The day after the surgery, I got right back into the hot room after BYSJ Owner and teacher Michelle said Come sit there. The heat is good for circulation. Just watching everyone else do the yoga and seeing it in your mind alone will help you. Make sure you clean the area well though. So I went and sat in the last row the entire class just getting used to the heat. Did that for two days, then started doing whatever I could on day 3. By day 6 was doing every pose. The band aids just fell off. My friends and family thought I was nuts, but inside, there was a feeling that things were getting better. It felt better. There were some weird things during the first few weeks after surgery. I was cutting my nails every three days only on the hand with the surgery. Hair was growing so fast on that arm, my kids called it the gorilla arm. There were three appointments scheduled post surgery after every month. When I went for the x-ray after the first month, the radiologist called back and said the doctor would like you to come visit him in person. He did not give me any more details. I was worried. At the follow up, the head of orthopaedics was there to meet me and he said It is all good news. You are healed. The reason I wanted to meet you, was that I have not seen anything like this before! Normally people with your physique take 3 months to heal and the holes in the bones close only after 3 months or more. Your bone looks completely closed in 30 days. You must have some amazing blood circulation to deposit that much calcium locally in such a short time or some amazing regenerative ability. Look, your hair on this arm is longer than the other one. Look at your nails! Did you do something special? Told him other than doing Bikram Yoga, nothing special. He said I am going to check this out and recommend it to other folks who might need it! For a few seconds I felt like Wolverine and Bikram Yoga had turned me into an X-man. Well eventually I could heal in seconds, couldn’t I? That was the biggest gain. Getting the usual life back, without metal in the hand, without pain, without clicking noises that came within the arm with blinding pain! Then came the magical moment where I actually lifted up my little one and threw her in the air and caught her. There were so many times she would run to me by force of habit and at the last minute would turn away knowing that my hands were useless. Two years after that accident, I was able to throw her up and catch her. What is more to gain?! That was the greatest gain and accomplishment. In the first six months, the biggest challenge was to finish the class with the metal in the arm. After the metal came off, the challenge was to do the poses. You see others in the room do a much better job and you want to try and replicate it. You know you are improving every day, a millimetre at a time but the mirror says you are not even close. The type A personality in you takes over and gets frustrated. After three years, the poses started looking closer to the real thing. By this time, I was doing 60 day challenges, going regularly to class and killing myself in every class and also going to some special classes taught by guest teachers. One person who made a big difference was a guest teacher called Jim Kallet. He taught an all day class and in one single day, made a huge difference to a lot of poses. It was like a dozen flashbulb moments in a day! I was fortunate that BYSJ got many more expert teachers to share their stories and techniques to help improve the practice. The challenge was no longer the asana. It was the breath. For the next year or two, the focus was on breathing through class. That made everything easier. You sit down a lot less. You know you can do it because it is all in your head. Then my job changed. I had to make a trip to Europe or Asia every third week. That meant keeping up with the personal goal of practicing 200 times a year, became the biggest challenge with all the travel days, jet lag and getting exposed to all the germs on planes and airports and hotel beds. Attendance can be a challenge. The last few years, it has been the biggest challenge. Push yourself to show up when in town, rain or shine, jet lag or not, low grade fever or not, work stress or not. You are happy, you go do yoga. You are sad, you go do yoga. You are mad, you go do a double! At this point, the challenge was perceiving the changes that seem to come ever so slowly. When progress or change is slow, you can feel a stagnation. Call it luck, chance or Karma, we had Brad Colwell come teach at BYSJ for a year. He asked me to try my hand at going to a yoga competition. I was laughing at the concept but after going through that experience, I got back my motivation to keep pushing myself. Going in front of an audience can be a humbling experience in so many ways. It got me grounded again. The great thing about Bikram Yoga teachers is that if they see you give it everything you got, they WILL help show you ways to improve on that! Each and every one of them! Bring your kids to yoga. I have been working on bringing my two daughters to class. Sometimes I wish I had found this yoga earlier, then I think of Bikram's most popular quote never too late, never too old, never too sick to start from scratch again." Bikram Yoga is the best gift you can give to your future, our future!

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