157: The People's History of Hot Yoga
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 2 July 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Modern Hot Yoga practice originated from a teacher named, Bishnu Gosh, in Calcutta, India, though it’s probably best-known today from one of Gosh’s most influential (and notorious) students, Bikram Choudhury in Los Angeles.
The Hot Yoga world is changing very quickly, and while 20 years ago, Bikram studios were the only game in town, there are now dozens of new and alternative Hot Yoga styles and studio groups popping up.
In Canada, Moksha Yoga is a really great school founded by Ted Grand. In Asia and Europe, Absolute Yoga Academy is a leader, and in Mexico, there's Tony Sanchez (just to name a few). It’s truly amazing how Hot Yoga has spread to all corners of the world since it’s such an impactful style of yoga.
In this week’s Yoga Talk Show, we deep dive into the real history of Hot Yoga, not just the “creative” history that has informed pop yoga culture up until now. Hot Yoga historian and researcher, Jerome Armstrong, joins us to talk about his republishing of some previously lost manuscripts including one by Gosh’s star student, Buddha Bose.
In this Show, You'll learn:
- The real origins of Hot Yoga
- Hot Yoga vs. Bikram Yoga
- All about Buddha Bose and his “lost manuscript”
- What the “84 advanced poses” sequence is all about
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Matcha - what it is, how it is grown, and the difference between matcha and regular green tea.
Links & References from the Show:
www.buddhabose.com
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/242455566/84-yoga-asanas-by-buddha-bose
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| 0:11.0 | I'm bringing eco vessel onto this episode specifically because we're going to be |
| 0:15.4 | talking about hot yoga and in hot yoga class you need to bring a water bottle or you will |
| 0:20.5 | die. Quite literally you will pass out. You need water in hot yoga and for years I used to always buy the |
| 0:26.5 | 1.5 liter bottles of water and carry them into class and little by little I just started to |
| 0:32.1 | feel like an eco-terrorist and I try not to use these as much as possible. |
| 0:36.0 | Of course all of us end up buying plastic water bottles when we're traveling, when we're on the go, |
| 0:41.0 | but when you're going to yoga class, when you're doing something regularly, when you have going to yoga class when you're doing something regularly when you have |
| 0:44.0 | time to prepare you want to use a water bottle I used to always use Nal gene bottles |
| 0:48.8 | those are kind of the thing I use growing up I don't like them anymore I feel like they're too big and they're too bulky and the |
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| 1:22.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 1:23.0 | Today's show is all about the people's history of hot yoga and this is such an important topic at my training school |
| 1:33.8 | Absolute Academy. Hot Yoga has always been one of our more popular styles, one of our |
| 1:39.3 | core course offerings and unfortunately one of the most vocal and public people on this subject is an L.A. based teacher |
| 1:47.5 | named Bikram Chowdhry who is kind of a despicable person. |
| 1:50.0 | I've never met anybody who really likes the guy and he does a lot of really terrible things and unfortunately |
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