Bikram Yoga vs. regular Hatha Yoga?

I have been doing bikram yoga for about 6 months. It's great, but hard - as I suppose is the purpose. However, I have been very busy as of late. I work all the time and just started going back to school. Going to bikram classes about once a week is all I can fit in. Doing them that infrequently is, I feel, less effective because my endurance has already kind of faded a bit and so I just get tired really fast.

So, I was thinking about doing Hatha Yoga instead. I don't know a whole lot about it, except that Bikram is a form of it, and whatever additional details are on the wikipedia page. It just seems like, because of the lack of heat, it would be a good alternative but less strenuous.

Any tips/advice/words of wisdom on the two? Really, I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's had experience with them both.

Answers:

1If I recall correctly, Hatha Yoga is basically a beginner's method. Meaning it is the style of yoga that was one of the first introduced to the West and it is the one that uses *props* to help folks get into the Asanas (poses). You know, things like "bricks", chairs and ropes....

So yeah, switching from a Bikram method class to a Hatha method shouldn't be a problem. :) In fact, it might be a little bit boring to you, maybe a little too easy.

But, as it has been said, even one good yoga class a week beats none....and if you can afford to do both (in terms of time and money) why not? Maybe that is part of the problem, is that your subconscious is telling you "yoga=grind" when it doesn't have to.

Heck, I'd be happy if I could just get back into one class a week...but my shoulders aren't cooperating (it's been a few years, and I've had my left shoulder get hyper-extended, and both of them get overrotated, so too much stretchy stuff is a no-no until I can build up some strength there again).

But I digress. I don't see it being a problem.

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