….while wearing a mask!
(And then a little Health and Safety Update for you)
Top 5 Things You Can Do in Standing Head to Knee….
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New Vision: WE Will Be the Ones to Save Bikram Yoga | Becoming a Community-Supported Yoga Collective |
–by Ann Chrapkiewicz
21 months into the pandemic, it is time for me to speak up. Well over 50% of Bikram Yoga studios in the U.S. have closed since spring 2020, and that wave of closures is not over. I have been doing everything I can to not be one of those who close, and I will continue to do everything I can. But at this point a broader base of support is required, and I am asking YOU to be a part of this.
Continue Reading ›This Body is the Earth | Bikram Yoga as a Tool for Reconnection | Happy Earth Day!
by Ann Chrapkiewicz
For those of us who have been raised in civilizations of extractive capitalism, tools for healing and reconnection are needed. Badly. By all of us.
Disconnection, alienation, and estrangement from the earth (including our living, breathing bodies) is pretty much par for the course.
So on this Earth Day 2021 and all going forward, I want to include our human bodies as part of the earth that we celebrate, connect with, protect, love, and heal.
Continue Reading ›How to Set Up Your Mind for Bikram Yoga Online
How to Set Up Your Mind for Bikram Yoga Online
Back in the summer of 2020, I shared some tips on our blog here for How to Set Up Your Hot Room (or not-so-hot room) for practicing Bikram Yoga at home.
Since then, many of my (seriously amazing) students have given me very helpful feedback. They have shared the best tools for the job: which space heater is best, which humidifier the most efficient, and other great little tips to help our home practices be nice and sweaty.
“Required” Reading! | First BYCA Book Club Meeting | Breath by James Nestor
How to Breathe: Announcing our first BYCA Book Club Meeting!
You are invited!!
I have recommended and shared with you many book suggestions over the years. But never have I felt that a book should be required reading for anyone involved in a traditional yoga practice.
This one is SO good, so relevant, and so immediately practical for your daily life!
side note: I actually think it should be required for all physicians, teachers, and health practitioners of any kind.
Hope for Autoimmune Disease | Book Release |
BYCA BOOK RELEASE
Hope for Autoimmune Disease: 15 Personal Stories of Living Better with Bikram Yoga
We could not be more excited to tell you about the completion of our book project, a global work-in-progress for the past 2.5 years.
Hope for Autoimmune Disease: 15 Personal Stories of Living Better with Bikram Yoga is the world’s FIRST publication that narrates the effects of Bikram Yoga on a family of related diseases.
How to Set Up Your “Hot Room” for Bikram Yoga Online
How to Set Up Your Hot Room (or not-so-hot-room) for Bikram Yoga
Can you do Bikram Yoga at home? Can you do Bikram Yoga without the heat? The answer is yes, absolutely.
For many years of practicing, we could not have imagined Bikram Yoga without the traditional “hot room”! However, thanks to our practice of adapting to the hot room, we have learned to adapt to many other challenges since 2020 began…including practicing Bikram Yoga anywhere and everywhere!
Bikram Yoga Online | 90-Minute Original Hot Yoga | Attentive Instruction |
Bikram Yoga Online / Outstanding Live-Streaming Instruction
Looking for the traditional, 90-minute Bikram Yoga class….taught every time with personal attention, detailed corrections, and daily inspiration? You are in the right place!
All of our classes listed on the SCHEDULE (click here) are available to current and new members. All are welcome; beginners and experienced Bikram Yoga practitioners LOVE our classes.
For New Students: You may try out our online classes for one month (31 consecutive days from your date of purchase).
20 Years of Bikram Yoga | Hip Dysplasia | Bikram’s Compassion & Love |
We are so happy to welcome Angela Moulin Sinclair to Bikram Yoga Capital Area! Her passion for this yoga as well as her nearly two decades of experience make her such a wonderful and positive part of our yoga community.
Angela and I first met at a Mary Jarvis Lake Michigan Shapeshifting retreat in the summer of 2018, but our shared history goes back to many similar experiences in the early 2000s at Bikram Yoga Teacher Training (at La Cienega Headquarters, Los Angeles).
Continue Reading ›MSU Spartans Football Coach Ron Burton on Development of the Athlete | “Coaching the Coach” | Bikram Yoga
Just over three years ago, Michigan State University Assistant Football Coach Ron Burton started practicing Bikram Yoga with us. Since then, he has been telling every coach and athlete he knows about this practice, encouraging them to come to class, and bringing his kids to class whenever they are in town.
They call each other “coach”, so if you ever hear Ann say that in class, you know who she is talking to!
Continue Reading ›Yoga is Better than Surgery, Part 1 | Athletics, Injuries, and Knee Recovery | Briona Jones |
Meet Briona Jones, 29, doctoral candidate in English at Michigan State University and former Division I basketball player.
Briona’s story is so moving and her reflections so articulate, we decided to share them in multiple blog posts! Here is Part I, which focuses mostly on the physical benefits Briona has created with her practice.
Childhood
I was born with rickets, so as a child I was able to walk, but I wasn’t able to run.
Continue Reading ›How to Get Kids on a Therapeutic Yoga Path
At BYCA we have a very strong youth program, with many youth attending weekly now for several years! You can read about some of our long-term regular youth practitioners here.
At the same time, we have a lot of parents who would like their kids to take up yoga, but who feel stuck. Lately I had a few people ask me directly ,”How do I get my kids to do yoga?”
Framing “Yoga” Differently
In over 15 years of practice, I have found that the answer lies almost entirely found in how the parent views yoga, how the parent speaks about yoga, and how the parent uses yoga.
Continue Reading ›Herding Cats, Billy Ocean, and Rollercoasters: Why I keep coming back to Bikram Yoga
Meet Melissa, 40, of Williamston, Michigan! Melissa started practicing with us at Bikram Yoga Capital Area in March of 2014 and to date has practiced over 725 classes! Melissa wrote this super thoughtful blog as part of 2017’s Spring Yoga Buddy Challenge. I am so grateful for Melissa’s insights, her quiet strength and presence at the yoga school, her patience with my backlog of stories needing to be shared (!), and her wonderful writing.
Continue Reading ›Happy Yoga Birthday!
by Ann Chrapkiewicz
Last month marked my 15th year of practicing Bikram Yoga. I was fortunate to find this healing practice when I was just about to turn 25.
This past week, I turned 40. (And I got to hear Happy Birthday in Triangle Pose – in 3 different classes! Great for the lungs, people!)
I feel so much better at 40 than I did at 24.
Continue Reading ›Bikram Yoga for Men!
May 1 – 31, 2018
Bikram Yoga for MEN
5 FREE Classes
To get started on your 5 free classes:
- Come to class as soon as you can! Arrive 15 MINUTES before any beginners’ class – live schedule found here.
- Drink several glasses of water *before* you come to the studio, and bring a large bottle of water with you
- Towel-mat rental is $5 (cash only) OR you can bring your own bath towel and yoga mat
- You are eligible for this special if you have not been to BYCA in 2018
- Bring other guy friends or family members with you to any of your 5 classes – they can do the special too
- You have until May 31 to complete the 5 free classes
- If you complete the 5 classes, you are eligible for a special 10-class Trial Membership (good for two months) at 50% off – you can buy it at the front desk, or we can send you a link upon your request.