Texas Yoga Asana
Championship (TYAC)
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
at High Noon
Winfrey Point (near White Rock Lake)
905 Lawther - Dallas, Texas

Watch as yogis from all over Texas from all disciplines compete in the spirit of celebration honoring their commitment to health and personal growth.

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Read all about 49er's safety, Tony Parrish and his Bikram Yoga practice in Sports Illustrated magazine.

Official Bikram Yoga Website

Bikram Yoga on CBS 60 Minutes Wednesday, June 8, 2005 (requires QuickTime)

Bikram Choudhury, founder of Bikram's Yoga College of India, World Headquarters, Los Angeles, California, began learning Hatha yoga at the age of three in Calcutta, India. At age five, he began studying with Bishnu Ghosh, one of the great physical culturists of our time. At the age of eleven, he was the youngest contestant ever to win the national India Yoga Competition and at fourteen he was declared "King of the Yogis." [more]

Bikram’s Yoga is a health system that provides everyone an avenue to enhance personal performance and assist to correct physical ailments. It uniquely provides the perfect marriage between the health and fitness industry as both are achieved by practicing one integrated approach. [more]

"About five years ago my daughter Jennifer, a Bikrim Yoga Instructor, requested my company at a yoga session located downtown Houston, Texas. I reluctantly went with her dragging my heels most of the way. That yoga session was an extremely demanding and difficult hour and a half for someone who was in pretty poor physical condition. I made it through the full session attempting each pose to the best of my limited ability. [ read more ]

As background, I discovered I had a serious back condition at the age of 30 (I am 57 now). I underwent a ton of therapies and eventually two separate lumbar laminectomies to no avail. Last fall I had two of my vertebrae fused. It was a fairly major surgery and they installed a bit of hardware to hold things in place while the actual fusion of the bone takes place. This process actually can take years. [ read more ]

Believe it or not, on April 1st, 2006 - yes, April Fools Day - my friend and running companion suggested we attend a Bikram Yoga class. You must know I see myself as an athlete and thought Yoga was for wimps. My value of the friendship won out and I went to the class. Arriving that day and going into the Yoga room I began to doubt that my friend was really my friend. [ read more ]