nopoodle@gmIf i put all the bikhram yoga classes i have done together ,i guess it would be , maybe at most 80 .A month in london ,3 months in dublin ,10 days in sth africa ,15 days in galway and just last week 4 days in Kata yoga on Kata beach in Puket ,thailand .I am far far from being any sort of yoga expert but i can compare one place to the next and i write here to say..hand on heart that the four short days i had at Kata yoga(which is Bikhram yoga in all but name,a copyright thing,since resolved).
The four classes i took were the best of any i have yet taken in any other place .
The room is heated not by fans but something called radience heating,i don,t know how it works but the difference is astonishing and wonderful and makes for ,in my opinion ,a deeper and more complete practice .
Three of the classes were taken by the owner who looks remarkably like a young laughing claude van damme,the action movie actor ,he teaches with energy and heartfelt attention that helps the class flow and breathe along and encourages you to do your best and yet feel watched over and guided.
An american girl,fresh from Nepal ,took the last class and was every bit as attentive and confident and instructive in all the best ways.
The room is bright and so so clean ,free of any sour smells ,the showers spotless and the lady who attends to the water and coconuts and towels and such ,who ,i suspect is secretly a yoga master ,is ever cheerful and the owners wife i advise you to put on sunglasses before saying hello for her smile will blind you.
The classes were a revelation to me,the postures the same as ever but this radience heating as different as the leap from candle light to electric light ,amazing.
A short walk down a lane and your on a long beach and in a clean ocean lying on your back wondering how you got so lucky to find a 90 minute guided mediatation thats in this beautiful place and in such caring and capable hands .
