Bikram Yoga Vs. Yoga

I study the human being since 1958 and I have an opinion formed as a result of research through study, observation and reflection on how the body and spirit should be treated, in order to maintain health and vital state over the years.

Since 2015 I practice Bikram Yoga every week at Bikram Rosales in Madrid, I highlight the values ​​that have changed my life for the better.

Better mental balance; The concentration during the exercise, the intense physical effort, maintaining the balance, attending the instructions of the teacher, are actions that improve the mental balance.

Better physical strength; the postures that force all muscles to work and the heat facilitate the strengthening of muscle structures, various organs and the cleaning of toxic elements.

More vitality; the cleaning by sweating eliminating toxins and the glucose expense make all the structures have a better electrical communication and improve the vital state.

More flexibility; All postures require forcing movements to force structures to become more flexible by improving movement in daily activities.

More confidence in myself; The challenge of each 90-minute class strengthens the feeling that you can get everything you want in life.

More tolerance with people; To do the practices of Bikram Yoga, you have to open your mind to positively accept what happens in your environment during the time that the teacher marks the exercises.

More health; If you strengthen structures, clean interstitial fluids, balance your mind, the result is HEALTH.

Breathing; You become aware that you must learn to breathe to provide oxygen to the metabolic function of generating the energy you need to maintain your vital state.

The difference between Yoga and Bikram Yoga is in the climate of the exercise room, temperature 40ºC, 50% ambient humidity and clean air.

In the 70s of the last century, investigating the facilities of the SPAS, I discovered that in the barracks of the Roman legions 2000 years ago, there were facilities for the sweat, the presence of this installation was for the soldiers to improve their physical condition , if they sweated regularly to eliminate toxins produced by exercise, stress and food and the best way to eliminate them was through the pores of the skin. During the 90 minutes of my classes at Bikram Rosales I lose more than a liter of liquid that cleanses me and that I replenish at the end of the class taking smoothies made at the time, to compensate for the lost liquid and minerals, in addition to providing vitamins and hydrates

The heat causes the muscles to relax and prevent injuries.

The blood circulatory system produces dilation and contraction exercises that are beneficial to give more elasticity to the veins and arteries.

Maintaining a humidity of 50% improves the ionic balance of the room that benefits the functioning of all physical and mental structures of the human body.

A problem that usually occurs in enclosed areas where exercise is low air quality due to oxygen consumption and CO2 production, in Bikram Rosales the air quality is optimal thanks to the technology they have applied to keep the air clean. air, produce heat without altering the environment and maintain humidity in a controlled way, also the materials used in walls, floor and ceiling.

Finishing the Bikram Yoga exercises with a water shower at less than 10ºC is a way to increase the benefits of this intense exercise, the blood circulation system is balanced and a more intense vital state is achieved, a more juicy skin is perceived.

In Bikram Yoga Rosales, the cold shower water is year-round at less than 10ºC.

Anthropology shows us another value that has the practice of Bikram Yoga, the strengthening of the person by effort, the only way that humans have to evolve is overcoming the difficulties that life presents.

The practice of Bikram Yoga as commented by elite professional athletes who have practiced Bikram Yoga has a level of difficulty far superior to any other exercise, both Yoga and any other sports practice, that hardness that is overcome in each voluntary practice, prepares us to overcome any Another difficulty that life presents to us, gives us security and confidence.

Feeding; Caring for food is important for Yoga practitioners, providing the body with food, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, lipids, water, avoiding sugar and alcohol, making homemade cooking with natural raw materials and our surroundings, legumes , cereals, fruit, vegetables, dairy, fish, meat.

Practicing Yoga is good, practicing Bikram Yoga is perfect, wonderful.

Bikram Yoga

I want to share my experience about practicing Bikram Hot Yoga.

I did start practicing Bikram in the first months of 2015. I go to Bikram Hot Yoga Rosales twice a week and since then I think that I have taken more than 360 sessions – 90 minutes/each.

I was encouraged to practice Bikram yoga by Jose Antonio Rodriguez owner of Bikram Hot Yoga Rosales (Madrid – Spain) in January 2015.

I have practiced sports my whole life and I’ve never been interested in yoga. Perhaps it was ignorance, because I thought it was an spiritual exercise and today I know that it is a physical and spiritual exercise.

I recommend sport lovers to practice Bikram Yoga for a while, to discover the most complete activity that you can imagine to strengthen body and mind; I am not saying you stop practicing other activities but if you are sports person you will be fascinated. Bikram Yoga is a powerful practice and it requires  some sessions to accept it, it does not matter the sport you practice, Bikram Yoga is more powerful and a weekly practice will improve your usual sport results.

The room where I practice Bikram has 40ºC and 40/50% humidity, the air is clean, I can breathe intense and nicely. I did practice in another center where the environment was unpleasant with bad odor and it was difficult to breath.

To tonify the body and balance the spirit, the cold shower at 10ºC is essential after the exercise, Bikram Hot Yoga Rosales provides cold water at  10ºC in the showers all year round and when I take a shower at this temperature I feel in a state of joy. It also has hot water but I don`t use it.

The benefits that I experience are:

My muscles are stronger; and besides the 26 postures are intense and give an excellent posture to the body.

I do work the equilibrium. When I started I found out that I had little balance, and now the mental focus and muscular strength that I have acquired allow me to control my body.

I do work on focus. The concentration is one of the main pillars that I have develop, while using it daily at a professional level helps me to resolve problems in a more agile way with better solutions.

I have better flexibility, with the years the body loses flexibility reducing joint mobility, now my body has the same flexibility as a teenager.

I have improved endurance, I continue practicing other sports and I am seeing that my results are improving, I am doing more sport with better results in comparison with other sportsman that I know it from years.

I have improved my respiratory capacity, the improvement in the respiratory system are fascinating, I do control better my breath and cardiac rhythm.

I do release toxins through passive perspiration. During the 90-minute class I lose more than 1 liter of liquid, it allows me to eliminate toxins from food, stress, exercise. During the classes I drink water and afterwards once at home a fruit shake to recover liquid and minerals.

I control my ego, Yoga is not a competition with others, it is a competition with ourselves, and to discover my limits, it forces me to think that I am not better that others and that each day I have to work to be a better person. This practice forces the ego to disappear during classes and in my case also during the rest of time.

The aggressive energies around me do not upset me anymore, the concentration capacity forces me to disconnect from the rest of the world and focus in my surviving. I put this in practice the rest of the day, and I live better; I see the aggressivity of other people but it does not annoy me. To summarize it I feel calm.

The last point I want to point out is my relationship with teachers, all of them are good but different between them.

The practice has 26 postures which are repeated twice and the teacher keeps a dialogue during 90 minutes that seems to be the same but it is not; the voice, rhythm and personality that they instill is different, even every day the same teacher is different in relation to the previous class.

 All those different aspects that each teacher has are a challenge to shape body and mind, there is not a different class routine and it does not exist a comfort zone. One of the Bikram Yoga values is to defy yourself in each class and to accept changes that in normal conditions would not be accepted. Following Bikram’s philosophy you will accept changes as part of your progress.

I want to underline something that surprises me; 80% of the people that attend Bikram are women, and the only reason I find to explain the men`s absence is that either they don`t know about Bikram Yoga benefits, or that perhaps the toughness of the exercises beat them and make them quit.

Bikram Hot Yoga Profitability

If you are looking for open a Bikram Hot Yoga center, here you will find figures about management of a success center.

We choose a 250m2 local after analyzed different options in order to balance investment expenses and profitability.

A Bikram Hot Yoga center has: exercise room, lockers and reception.

Income with 100% occupation

Price per class: 13€

38 persons x 23 classes = 874 persons/week

874 persons x 4 weeks = 3496 persons/month

3496 persons x 13€ = 45.448€/month

Income with 50% occupation

Price per class: 13€

19 person x 23 classes = 437 persons/week

437 persons x 4 weeks = 1748 persons/month

1748 persons x 13€ = 22.724€/month

Expenses with 100% occupation                    Expenses with 50% occupation

Rent                                         2000€                                       2000€

Teachers                                  3000€                                       3000€

Energy                                       600€                                         600€

Laundry 7000towels/month     2520€                                       1260€                          (0,36€/towel)

Tax (21%)                                9544€                                       4772€

Others                                     2000€                                        2000€

Total                                      19,664€/month                          13,632€/month

Income                                  45,448€/month                          22,724€/month

Profit                                     25,784€/month                           9,092€/month

The Bikram Hot Yoga Center has to be located in an upper-middle income area, the key is to find a local with a good price for rent otherwise the profit will be for the landlord. The contract period should be 15 years minimum.

The Bikram hot yoga teachers are a matter that has to be solved before to rent a local if you do not arrange it first you cannot make Bikram practice ads just hot yoga.

The energy expense is a fundamental factor, you can pay 600€/month or 5000€/month as happens in some centers we know, in this case the profit is for the energy company.

The taxes will be less than 21%, you have to deduce the taxes payed to your suppliers.

Investment

The investment expenses are: project, construction permit, construction, equipment, towels, marketing, money for firsts moths.

The ete equipment are:

  • Heating system HYB/Air treatment
  • Hot water/showers
  • Cold water

The construction period recommended is 90 days, make a deal with professionals with references.

The technical installations are a value that determinate a success or fail, when the environment is unpleasant with bad odor, difficult to breath, temperature and humidity uncontrolled, makes that the clients give up, bad references and if the water for showers has not the right temperature 40ºC and 10ºC the clients will complain about it.

The energy bill has a lot to do with the technology used, as I said before 600€ or 5000€/month. The equipment manufactured by Europea Térmica Eléctrica for Bikram Hot Yoga Centers has operating guarantee, generate the right environmental conditions and guarantees that the energy consumption for 23 classes/week (90 minutes) is 600€/month.

The Bikram Hot Yoga is not a temporal fashion, it is a millennial technique to keep body vitality and mental equilibrium.

All my life I have been practicing sports, 3 years ago I started to practice yoga twice a week in Bikram Rosales Madrid, the first classes I thought that I was not capable to do this sport, the staff encourage me to do the 7 classes and now I have to say that it is the best sport I have ever do.  Bikram has change my life, I am on my 30’s again in all ways, my mind is calm, I face the problems with lucidity, I have the control.

To the whom are looking for invest in a Bikram Hot Yoga center, I recommend to look for the wellness benefits, there are a lot.

Once you are convinced about the greatness of this practice, contact with Europea Térmica Eléctrica, with the Bikram teachers association, find the local, an architect, a constructor and in the following 3 months you will open your success business for many years.