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Turning up the heat on yoga
Bikram yoga school works bodies in rooms set at 105 dew
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ORLANDO, Fla. _ Skip
Wolfram is about to give new
meaning to the phrase “warm
ing up.”
Clad in black spandex shorts,
he steps to the front of an exercise
room that four glowing space
heaters have heated to more than
100 degrees.
Fourteen students stand ready
to sweat. For the new ones, there
comes a warning:
“You may get dizzy,” says
Wolfram, the class instructor.
“Don’t panic. Don’t freak out....
This is not a race. This is not a
competition.”
This is Bikram yoga, an exer
cise routine that’s hot in more
ways than one.
Flamboyant yogi Bikram
Choudhury introduced his yoga
style to the United States more
than a quarter-century ago, but
only in the past few years has its
popularity exploded.
Students stretch, kick and bal
ance themselves in rooms heated
to temperatures as high as 105
degrees. Such intense heat,
Choudhury says, allows muscles
to stretch better.
Fans swear by it, but many
yoga enthusiasts, such as
James Greenberg, say they see
no benefit from this extreme
exercise. Greenberg, who has
written for Yoga Journal, calls
Bikram “some weird macho
manifestation.”
Leigh Crews, a Reebok mas
ter trainer and spokeswoman for
the American College of Sports
Medicine and the American
Council on Exercise, sees no
advantage from the extreme heat.
And if exercisers are obese or
don’t replenish the fluids they
lose, she said, they could experi
ence symptoms from heart fluctu
ations to muscle cramps.
Instructor Stephen "Skip" Wolfram leads a yoga class at Bikram's Yoga College of India in Longwood, Flo '
extreme form of yoga is practiced in a room heated to 105 degrees.
Doctors also dispute some
of Choudhury’s medical claims
about the benefits of Bikram
yoga.
Still, as yoga has become
more mainstream, so too has the
Bikram brand.
Choudhury has established a
chain of Bikram’s Yoga College
of India studios, offering a uni
form product. Just as people
know their cafe lattes will taste
the same at any Starbucks,
Choudhury says teachers at
Bikram studios should repeat the
same sequence of 26 poses, recite
the same dialogue, have the same
expertise.
Choudhury has threatened
legal action against anyone who
teaches his style of yoga without
first paying him $5,000 for train
ing and certification.
“Bikram’s done some great
stuff for yoga,” said Jim Harrison,
a Sacramento-based attorney rep
resenting smaller yoga studios
fighting Choudhury’s copyright
registration, which he obtained
last year. “He’s a wonderful pro
moter, but he’s doing things that
aren’t good for yoga in general.”
Choudhury, 57, a native of
Calcutta, began studying yoga
when he was 4 and brought his
style to the United States in 1971.
He’s now a wealthy celebrity, leg
endary for his collection of Rolls-
Royces, his brash style and his
Hollywood followers, including
Raquel Welch.
Some love his intensity.
Others, such as DeLand yoga
instructor Buffy Williams, prefer
a little less perspiration.
“For me, personally, I have
seen so much more benefit in a
gentler, kinder way of doing
:
yoga,” she said.
But Wolfram, an avid suit
said the intense yoga ‘‘really
my personality as far as neat
to work hard physically to gen
mental effect. I really enjoyedi
way that it made me
consequently, the subsequa
effect was that I felt more mem
serenity, peace or whatever)!
call it.”
The 37-year-old was i
inspired that he spent nine wed
in Los Angeles, training foraki
500 hours with Choiidhiij
before opening his Longwi
Fla., studio in 2001.
Instructors recommend tali:
the classes three to four
week. At the Longwood stul
students pay $12 a session, mi
discounts available for
classes. A year’s worth of eta
costs $875.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Woman jailed for intercepting e-mail
DENVER (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Arizona
woman for intercepting someone else’s e-mail, saying the
penalty is a warning to others who might be tempted to do
the same.
On Friday, he sentenced Angel Lee to 60 days home
detention for intercepting e-mail sent to her husband’s ex-
wife, Duongladde Ramsay. Matsch said the case was a
vicious divorce dispute about children.
Lee, 28, pleaded guilty in March, and admitted accessing
at least 215 e-mails sent to Ramsay last year. Officials said
she fraudulently obtained confidential user name and
password information for Ramsay’s e-mail account.
Trial begins in childrens' deaths
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The capital murder trial
of a South Texas man accused of decapitating three chil
dren, two of them his own, is set to begin Monday with
opening statements.
John Allen Rubio, 23, and his common-law wife Angela
Camacho, 23, both of Brownsville, were arrested March 11
and charged with capital murder, after police were alerted
to enter the couple’s squalid downtown apartment.
The couple confessed to repeatedly stabbing and decap
itating 3-year-old Julissa Quezada, 1-year-old John
Esthefan Rubio and 2-month-old Mary Jane Rubio. Julissa
was Camacho’s child from a previous relationship.
One twin off ventilate
DALLAS (AP) -— Once con
joined Egyptian twin Mohamed
Ibrahim was taken off a ventilator
and was breathing on his own
Sunday, a week after doctors suc
cessfully separated him from his
brother Ahmed.
Dr. James Thomas, chief of
critical care services at Children’s
Medical Center Dallas, said in a
update released by the hospital
that he is cautiously optimistic
that doctors will not have to place
Mohamed back on a ventilator.
Thomas said that if Ahmed con
tinues to improve, he may be ready
to come off the ventilator Monday.
“Once each twin is breathing
on his own without respiratory
distress, his condition may be
upgraded from critical to guard
ed,” Thomas said.
The hospital said the twins
continue to make small gains,
including motion in theiumaw
legs and improved response I
verbal cues from the family mi
medical team. They are incriiicl
hut stable condition in the
atric intensive care unit.
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icai teams are very pleased wi
the twins’ progress so far
Thomas said.
Thomas said Ahmed has ad
had any repeat of a seizure he so!
fered Friday night. A lumbardrai
was removed Sunday after C
scans showed no accumulation(
spinal fluid. Mohamed’s lumfe
drain remains in place.
The twins, joined at the topi
their heads when they were to
in Egypt on June 2, 2001, wti
separated Oct. 12 during a 3*
hour operation.
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tinue to run a low-grade fever,
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