What 21 Years With BIKRAM Taught Me About Hot Yoga
HI Everyone,
This week I made one of the most personal videos of my entire YouTube career.
21 years. That is how long I trained and taught alongside Bikram Choudhury as his most senior teacher in the world. And here is something I have never said publicly quite like this before. I have now been teaching the Barkan Method for longer than I spent with Bikram. One year longer, to be exact. That means more of my teaching life has been spent building and refining my own method than learning and teaching his.
That perspective changes how I see everything.
In this week's video I walk you through the what to do and what not to do framework that emerged from 45 years of watching real students in real rooms. Five to six key areas where I kept what Bikram got profoundly right and refined what needed to evolve. And I want to be very clear about something I say directly in the video. None of these changes came from wanting to be different, from avoiding anything, or from any other motivation than one simple thing. My students showed me over decades what was working and what was not. The changes came from them.
I also use over 30 images throughout the video to illustrate each point, including one or two moments that made me laugh while editing. You will know them when you see them.
LOVE & LIGHT,
JIMMY