He was born on Februor 1946 in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Very little actually is known about Bikram Choudhury, founder of Bikram Yoga. ChoudhuryвЂ™s innovation was to connect yoga and heated environments, along with his specific combination of twenty-six asanas in the Hatha Yoga tradition (Hall 2019). There are, of course, numerous examples of using heated environments for personal healing and transformation, from Turkish baths to Native American sweat lodges. He began experimenting with what became Hot Yoga while teaching in Japan around 1970, gradually increasing the heat in the yoga studios to its present level of forty degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and developing his specific combination of twenty-six asanas in the Hatha Yoga tradition. Hot Yoga, (which generically refers to yoga practiced in a heated space), is the creation of Bikram Choudhury. YogaвЂ™s connection to the current exercise and fitness movement is reflected in the finding that health, conditioning, fitness, and stress relief were all mentioned as motivations by more than half of practitioners surveyed. One third of practitioners have been practicing for three years or less. According to this source, over eighty percent of practitioners are women over sixty percent are between eighteen and forty-four. A 2017 Yoga Journal sponsored survey estimated that the number of yogis and yoginis has topped 20,000,000, up 4,000,000 since an earlier 2012 study. Yoga has become extremely popular in the United States. Copyright Office ruled that the sequence of poses was ineligible forВ copyright.Дў013-2015: Six sexual harassment lawsuits were filed against Choudhury.Дў016: Bikram and Rajashree Choudhury divorced after thirty-two years of marriage. ДЎ984: Bikram and Rajashree Chakrabarti were married.ДЎ994: Choudhury offered an accelerated course of teacher training.ДЎ998: Celebrity Madonna appeared on the Oprah television program and promoted yoga practice.Дў002 (October 24): Choudhury filed a supplementary copyright for his twenty-six poses in sequence.Дў012 (June): The U.S. 1944 or 1946 (February 10): Bikram Choudhury was born in Kolcata (Calcutta), India.ДЎ951: Choudhury began studying Hatha Yoga with Bishnu Ghosh.ДЎ959-1962: Choudhury won the National India Yoga Championship three consecutive years.ДЎ963: Choudhury suffered a severe knee injury that doctors believed would permanently prevent him from walking.ДЎ964: Six months after his crippling injury, ChoudhuryвЂ™s knee was fully healed.ДЎ970 (February): Choudhury opened schools in Japan and created his twenty-six pose sequence.Д®arly 1970s: Choudhury immigrated to the United States.ДЎ974: Choudhury opened the Yoga College of India in Beverly Hills.ДЎ977 (January 1): ChoudhuryвЂ™s first book, BikramвЂ™s Beginning Yoga Class, was published.ДЎ979 (January 1): Choudhury submitted a copyright for the entire text of BikramвЂ™s Beginning Yoga Class.

Hatha yoga book from early 1970's