It's own-up time: I'm a hardcore yoga



The Daily Telegraph, May 6, 2005, By Christa D'Souza

This form of yoga, which counts Madonna, Gywneth Paltrow and Shirley Maclaine as followers, is the brainchild of Bikram Choudhury, a former weightlifter from Calcutta, who devised the system after crushing his knees during a competition. When he moved to Los Angeles in the early Seventies, his yoga classes had a tiny following, but now there are 800 Bikram schools around the world (four of them in London). According to the burger-loving, Bentley-driving Choudhury (who once likened himself to Superman), the heat mimics conditions in India - where yoga originated - but also allows the muscles to stretch to their full capacity, in the same way as one heats a horseshoe before it is reshaped. Because Bikram is said to burn around 640 calories a session, it can also make you lose weight. ``But fat is the easiest thing in the world to get rid of!'' Choudhury says, when I call him at his headquarters in Beverly Hills. "Think of frozen butter. What happens if you put it in heat? It melts away. It disappears!"

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