bikram choudhury

Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram yoga, was born in Calcutta, India, in 1946. At an early age, Choudhury began studying yoga under Bishnu Ghosh, brother of Paramahansa Yogananda, the author of The Autobiography of a Yogi. After being seriously injured in a weightlifting accident, Choudhury developed Bikram yoga under the guidance of Ghosh. After teaching in India and Japan, Choudhury moved to Los Angeles, founding the Bikram Yoga College of India™, which now has a worldwide network of 400 affiliated studios and over 3,000 teachers.