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Author Bikram Yoga story on 60 Minutes Wednesday
robin88th

2005-06-07, 11:52 am

60 Minutes Wednesday is doing a story on Bikram Choudhury and Bikram
yoga this week. It's airing Wed., June 8 at 8:00 (on CBS). Looks
interesting.

calderhome@yahoo.com

2005-06-07, 5:55 pm

Doing hatha yoga in 105 degree heat might be a great way of giving an
elderly person quick heart attack, but there is no physical or esoteric
reason to do it. A gimmick to make money is hardly worth arguing over.
I think both sides of that case are fooling themselves. Money is
their motive, not meditation or real yoga.

Christopher Calder

omjaram

2005-06-08, 6:09 pm

So did anyone see the show, I missed it.

OK, I have to admit I don't watch tv. There I said it :-)

Anyway did anyone see it and if you did would you like to share your
impression?

Namaste

flicknut

2005-06-09, 5:59 pm


omjaram Wrote:
> So did anyone see the show, I missed it.
> Anyway did anyone see it and if you did would you like to share your
> impression?


I saw the show and had mixed feelings. The guy seems greedy. He sued a
yoga instructor because she was teaching Bikram yoga without paying the
$5,000 fee to learn from Bikram himself. The judge ruled that his yoga
routine with 26 different yoga positions in exact order could be
copyrighted just like a song.

He seemed like a quack to me, however most of the people shown
performing this type of yoga had extremely nice bodies, not your
typical Americans.


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flicknut
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