Bikram Yoga: How the yoga guru Bikram took the western world for a ride

Bikram Choudhury is an Indian-born Yoga guru and founder of Bikram Yoga. He is widely revered by his followers. He was born in Calcutta in British India, in 1944. Re more to kw how Bikram took over western world.

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How yoga guru Bikram took western world for a ride 

Yoga guru Bikram Choudhury built an empire of hundreds of studios all over world. He taught western world a new form of yoga he perfected, kwn as Hot Yoga. It is performed in a series of 26 hasta yoga postures and is done in a hot setting of near 40 degrees Celsius. Bikram started learning hasta yoga in his 20s. According to a report, he h said that he learned this form of yoga at a very young and h won National Yoga Championship for three consecutive years, but re are facts that suggest orwise, as se competitions were held much later when he h left India. He began making copyright claims for his yoga postures which were indeed taken from existing yoga gestures, a report said. But se claims were denied by US Copyright Office.

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Choudhury h a great start and h influenced many people to blindly follow him. But shortly after that, he got entangled with multiple lawsuits of sexual harassment, assault, and racism. His lawyer, Minakshi Jafa-Bodden, claimed that after working with him for two years she h seen Bikram’s immoral behaviour towards women and mirities. She was also a victim of his misconduct.

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Netflix created a documentary titled Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator which tells story of his misuse of his position and crimes he committed like rape, assault, and harassment of multiple women. Eva Orner directed documentary which narrated how Bikram and his followers created a system that would hide him from world. It was screened at Toronto International Film Festival 2019.

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