A testimony to Bikrum Yoga

When I turned 40 I was pregnant with child #3 and stiff as can be. My spine was not only stiff but felt like if I was going to experience any unexpected movement something would ‘go’. I avoided the dodgem cars! How boring! I thought I have 3 young children, I cant pull back from life like this. I needed something very different to all I’d done before. My back stiffness is longstanding – I’ve been trying to improve it for decades and I’m glad I didnt stop fighting the good fight. However, coming from a background of PE teaching, regular participation in sport and gym attendance I am still perplexed as to why I’m so stiff – it’s not like I’ve been sitting on the couch or have a sedentary job.

 I attended my first class when my daughter was 5 months old. I had weight to lose, a core to strengthen, a very stiff back, and was coming up to 10 years of suffering golfers elbow (another child rearing consequence). I got through the first class and could not sleep that night. My back felt like I’d stripped 10 years of stiffness out of it. I was so excited! I kid you not – it felt that good. 1 class. My elbows also began to heal – I found the exercise of laying on my pronated elbows excruciating at first, but within a few weeks a lot of tension was gone, flexibility and stiffness in the joint had improved. Bowels also improved. I'd been told I had a lazy bowel, and I think that’s right – but I’ve gotta say if I’m a bit bunged up then a bikrum class always helps within 24 hours – things are moving again.

 I’ve never been a particularly flexible person, still not, But it is a testimony to the practise that at 43 I am more flexible than I’ve ever been. I’d also like to add that for a short time I was practising Fit Hot Yoga and the benefits diminished. But within 1 class at the Newtown Bikrum Studio I felt progress in my overall wellbeing – particularly spinal health.

 What is most amazing is that although I’d love to come more regularly I generally only come twice a week, rarely do I make it 3 times, and I’m going through a busy time and can only make it once a week atm. I’d love to do more, but there you go, life is busy. Still, I’d really miss my once a week, in fact I’d have to be really sick to miss that – one class is better than none!

So there’s my testimony – amazing results, without a huge commitment, just a regular one.