-based culture: camel is the deepest back-bend of the whole Bikram series."Spending all day hunched over desks and computers, we don’t get many opportunities to back bend," says Olga Allon, director of Hot Bikram Yoga in London (www.hotbikramyoga.co.uk). "It

Face on the floor, bum in the air; feeling a bit like a wally... As ungainly as this posture can seem – the English name 'half tortoise' doesn’t do it any favours – it’s actually one of the most relaxing and energising postures of the Bikram series

designed to remove wind, I’ve yet to attend a class where this pose prompted a volley of farts ricocheting around the studio. But if during this posture gas does emit from a certain orifice, you can claim with pride that Bikram’s wind removing pose does

Despite its ridiculously long Sanskrit name, this pose will feel relatively simple after the demanding Standing Bow and Balancing Stick.Described by Bikram himself as "kryptonite for sciatica", the pose otherwise known as Standing Separate Leg

.Dhanurasana: The BenefitsOlga Allon, Director of Hot Bikram Yoga says: "This posture is the final of [the] spine strengthening sequence, and you will have worked through each part of your spine independently. This 360-degree flexion of the spine revitalizes all the spinal

This is one of the better-known stretches in the Bikram sequence, being a popular addendum to gym classes up and down the country. For my part, I’ve been doing this one since my Saturday league football playing days. Mind you, as a moody teenager

bunch on the whole – yes, I’m looking at you – but it also helps to combat loss of appetite.Olga Allon, Director of Hot Bikram Yoga, says: “By now, followers of this blog will know that the flexible runner is a rarely injured runner – and this stretch

Allon, director of Hot Bikram Yoga, is that no matter how bad you are at this pose, simply doing as much as you can will improve your flexibility massively.“Supta Vajrasana is really hard to do,’ she says, “and almost all runners have tight ankle joints

would sound like one of the muppets.But it does good things, really good things, as Olga Allon, Director of London's Hot Bikram Yoga explains: "This is a forward compression pose, and your throat is meant to feel a little bit choked. By compressing

the HeatDo some heat acclimatisation in the 10 days before you fly to the desert. I did seven sessions of Hot Bikram Yoga in the week leading up to D-Day. I'm positive it helped as the heat hardly affected me until it reached 50+ degrees on the marathon