Bikram Yoga El Paseo
The Coachella Valley’s Original Hot Yoga Studio in the Heart of Palm Desert
A Proven Method of Healing & Transformation
About Bikram Yoga
Bikram Yoga is more than just exercise, it’s a therapeutic system for the body and mind. This powerful practice consists of 26 postures (asanas) and 2 breathing exercises (pranayamas) performed in a carefully heated room. The sequence is always the same, allowing students to measure progress, build consistency, and focus inward.
- Stretch and strengthen every muscle, joint, and ligament
- Stimulate organs and glands with fresh, oxygen-rich blood
- Detoxify the body through therapeutic heat and sweat
- Improve posture, balance, and spinal health
- Build mental clarity, concentration, patience, and self-control
Practicing in a heated room warms the muscles for a deeper, safer stretch, helps prevent injury, and promotes cleansing from the inside out. The result is a complete workout for body, mind, and spirit, accessible to beginners, yet endlessly challenging for advanced practitioners.
Why Bikram Yoga Works
With regular practice, students often experience:
Unlike other styles of yoga that vary from class to class, the 26&2 sequence is structured and progressive. Each posture builds on the last, systematically working every part of the body, from the inside out and from bones to skin.
- Reduced chronic pain and injury recovery support
- Improved flexibility, strength, and cardiovascular health
- Weight management and metabolic balance
- Stress relief, improved sleep, and enhanced mood
- Slowed effects of aging through cellular renewal and circulation
About Bikram Choudhury
Bikram Choudhury, the founder of the Bikram Yoga method, was born in Calcutta in 1946 and trained under the legendary Bishnu Ghosh, younger brother of Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi). By the age of 13, he was the National India Yoga Champion, undefeated for three consecutive years.
Through his training and teaching, Bikram developed the original hot yoga series, later known as the 26&2, and founded the Yoga College of India™, spreading this healing method to students worldwide.
Image: Bikram Choudhury with Bikram Yoga El Paseo Owner, Ann Marie Palma
Bikram Yoga for Athletes
Athletes push their bodies to the limit, and recovery is just as important as training. Bikram Yoga is a powerful complement to any athletic routine, offering balance, flexibility, and injury prevention.
Why Athletes Choose Bikram Yoga
- Why Athletes Choose Bikram Yoga
- Improves stamina and performance through focused breathwork and endurance training.
- Enhances flexibility and mobility, reducing risk of strains and injuries.
- Supports joint health, beneficial for common issues like tennis elbow, bursitis, and knee pain.
- Strengthens the spine and core, improving posture and alignment.
- Accelerates recovery, helping athletes return to peak performance faster.
Trusted by Professionals
From football players and golfers to tennis champions and hockey pros, Bikram Yoga has been embraced by athletes across sports who credit it with extending their careers and boosting performance.
Whether you’re a weekend warrior or a competitive athlete, the hot room is where strength meets recovery.
Push harder. Recover deeper. Discover why athletes worldwide turn to Bikram Yoga
Yoga Postures
Pranayama
Standing Deep Breathing
Pose Benefits
- Promotes mental relaxation
- Aids detoxification
- Strengthens the nervous, respiratory, and circulatory systems
Ardha-Chandrasana
Half Moon Pose
Pose Benefits
- Relieves lower back pain, constipation, abdominal obesity, bronchial distress, scoliosis, and frozen shoulders
- Strengthens the deltoids, trapezius, pectoralis major, and hamstrings
- Stimulates and exercises the colon, pancreas, and kidneys
Utkatasana
Awkward Pose
Pose Benefits
- Opens the pelvic area
- Alleviates knee pain and arthritis
- Strengthens the lower limbs
- Relieves sciatica
- Improves flexibility in the toes and ankles
- Engages and strengthens the quadriceps and deltoids
Garurasana
Eagle Pose
Pose Benefits
- Strengthens the lower body
- Enhances joint mobility in the hip girdle and all 12 major joints, stimulating fresh blood flow through compression and release
- Supports control of sexual energy and improves central nervous system function
Dandayamana Janushirasana
Standing Head to Knee
Pose Benefits
- Improves concentration and mental focus
- Prevents sciatica by enhancing circulation and flexibility
- Helps regulate blood sugar and reduces risk of diabetes
- Strengthens back muscles and nerves
- Benefits the muscular, skeletal, reproductive, and digestive systems
Dandayamana Dhanurasana
Standing Bow Pose
Pose Benefits
- Increases circulation to the heart and lungs
- Improves spinal elasticity through compression
- Relieves lower back pain
- Expands the diaphragm and opens the lungs
Tuladandasana
Balancing Stick
Pose Details
- Increases blood flow throughout the entire body
- Helps clear and strengthen the arteries
- Builds strength in the lower extremities
- Stimulates the pancreas, kidneys, and spleen
- Benefits the muscular, reproductive, nervous, and circulatory systems
Dandayamana-Bibhaktapada-Paschimotthanasana
Standing Separate Leg Stretching Pose
Pose Details
- Helps for constipation, abdominal obesity and hyper-acidity
- Increases circulation to the brain and adrenal glands
- Good for small and large intestines
Trikanasana
Triangle Pose
Pose Benefits
- Supports kidney health
- Helps correct chemical imbalances in the body
- Relieves colitis, constipation, hip and back pain, spondylitis, mobility issues, and menstrual disorders
- Provides cardiovascular benefits
- Strengthens the circulatory, digestive, immune, and reproductive systems
Dandayamana-Bibhaktapada-Janushirasana
Standing Separate Leg Head to Knee Pose
Pose Benefits
- Helps reduce abdominal obesity and supports conditions such as diabetes and thyroid imbalance
- Promotes healthy blood sugar regulation and supports the pancreas and kidneys
- Strengthens the endocrine, reproductive, and digestive systems
- Engages the obliques, iliopsoas, quadriceps, deltoids, trapezius, biceps, and triceps
Tadasana
Tree Pose
Pose Benefits
- Improves hip and knee mobility
- Relieves abdominal tension
- Reduces inflammation in the lower back
Padangustasana
Toe Stand
Pose Benefits
- Promotes balance in both body and mind
- Strengthens the stomach muscles
- Helps relieve arthritis, knee problems, and gout pain
- Builds strength in weak joints
Savasana
Dead Body Pose
Pose Benefits
- Promotes powerful blood flow, then allows circulation to return to normal
- Creates internal cleansing and amplifies the benefits of preceding postures
- Teaches the foundation of true relaxation
Pavanamuktasana
Wind-Removing Pose
Pose Benefits
- Relieves constipation, flatulence, and hyperacidity
- Massages the ascending, descending, and transverse colon
Bhujangasana
Cobra Pose
Pose Benefits
- Reduces stiffness in the lower back
- Helps regulate menstrual irregularities
- Relieves stress and fatigue while elevating mood and invigorating the heart
- Stimulates abdominal organs, including the kidneys
- Soothes sciatica
- Eases symptoms of asthma
Salabhasana
Locust Pose
Pose Benefits
- Shares many of the same benefits as Cobra Pose, but is especially effective for slipped discs and sciatica
- Strengthens the upper spine, while the arm stretch can help relieve tennis elbow
- Helps reduce varicose veins in the legs
Poorna-Salabhasana
Full Locust Pose
Pose Benefits
- Strengthens the middle spine and benefits conditions such as scoliosis, kyphosis, spondylosis, and slipped discs
- Opens the rib cage and improves its elasticity
- Firms the abdominal muscles, upper arms, hips, and thighs
Dhanurasana
Bow Pose
Pose Benefits
- Expands the rib cage, allowing the lungs to fully open
- Provides 360-degree flexion of the spine, revitalizing spinal nerves and strengthening the entire spine
- Aids digestion, relieves constipation, and supports conditions such as bronchitis and diabetes
- Improves the function of the intestines, liver, kidneys, and spleen
Supta-Vajrasana
Fixed Firm Pose
Pose Benefits
- Strengthens and increases flexibility in the lower spine, hips, knees, and ankles
- Improves circulation in the lower limbs and helps relieve lower back pain, sciatica, rheumatism, and varicose veins
- Helps prevent hernias
Ardha-Kurmasana
Half Tortoise Pose
Pose Benefits
- Promotes deep relaxation
- Relieves indigestion, constipation, flatulence, and irritable bowel syndrome
- Stretches the lower lungs, therapeutic for emphysema and asthma
- Helps regulate diabetes
Ustrasana
Camel Pose
Pose Benefits
- Strengthens the muscles of the back and shoulders
- Creates maximum spinal compression to stimulate the nervous system
- Improves flexibility in the neck and spine
- Relieves backaches
- Supports conditions such as kyphosis and scoliosis
Sasangasana
Rabbit Pose
Pose Benefits
- Provides maximum spinal stretch and extension, counterbalancing Camel Pose
- Maintains mobility and elasticity of the spine and back muscles
- Stimulates the nervous system, increases blood flow to the brain, and helps relieve depression
- Supports diabetes management
- Helps with colds, sinus issues, chronic tonsillitis, sore throats, and strep infections
- Benefits the thyroid, parathyroid, and larynx
Janushirasana & Paschimotthanasana
Head to Knee Pose
& Stretching Pose
Pose Benefits
- Helps balance blood sugar levels and supports diabetes management
- Strengthens the immune system by stimulating the thymus
- Improves kidney function
- Increases circulation to the liver, spleen, pancreas, thyroid, thymus, and intestines
Ardha-Matsyendrasana
Spine-Twisting Pose
Pose Details
- The only posture that twists the spine from top to bottom simultaneously
- Improves flexibility in the spine and hip joints
- Helps prevent slipped discs
- Increases circulation and nourishment to spinal nerves, veins, and tissues
- Relieves sciatica
- Supports healthy digestion
Kapalbhati in Vajrasana
Blowing in Firm Pose
Pose Benefits
- Flushes toxins from the body
- Benefits emphysema and other respiratory conditions
- Strengthens, massages, and increases circulation to the abdominal organs and diaphragm
- Supports heart health and helps reduce high blood pressure
