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Bikram Yoga is a system of yoga that Bikram Choudhury synthesized from traditional hatha yoga techniques and popularized beginning in the early 1970s.

Bikram Choudhury, founder of the Bikram Yoga system, was also the founder of the Yoga College of India.

The goal of Bikram Yoga is general health ; Bikram Choudhury states that a heated studio helps deeper stretching and injury prevention, while reducing stress and tension.

Choudhury claims that blood circulation is affected immensely during Bikram Yoga because of two processes called extension and compression.

Bikram Choudhury ( born February 10, 1946 ) is an Indian yoga guru and the founder of Bikram Yoga, a form of hot yoga performed in a series of 26 hatha yoga postures done in a hot ( 105 degrees Fahrenheit or greater ) environment.

Born in Calcutta, India, Bikram Choudhury began learning Hatha Yoga poses at the age of three.

The 105 degree heat in which Bikram yoga is practiced is, according to Choudhury, meant to mimic the climate of India.

Choudhury holds a copyright for the 26 poses which constitute Bikram yoga under the same theory which allows choreographic sequences to be copyrighted.