As Yoga became more popular, people started moving their “workouts” from fitness centers to Yoga “studios.”  Losing business, the fitness centers then started offering “yoga,” and then the Yoga “studios” started adopting the fitness center business models to compete:  they changed the Yoga, offering all different things, in order to keep offering their business with that model.

In the meantime, we succeeded in our mission of making the previously exclusive and elitist practice of Yoga (very few did it, it was not accessible or inviting for the vast majority of people) accessible to everyone and anyone, and to educate about the incredible benefits of a safe and proper Yoga practice.  The Yoga “studios” copied us (ie; heat, sequences of Postures, applied to large groups, etc.), then changed the Yoga to follow the fitness center business models.

Over 49,000 different people have come to our school in 25 years, and almost everyone in San Diego has either heard of Bikram (or “hot”) Yoga, or knows someone who has at least tried it.

With our success and mission accomplished, we transitioned to a new way of presenting and offering Bikram Yoga, somewhat back to its original roots.  We scaled down, moving, and making our school more private, though anyone is welcome to come.  But it will now be only for those who really want to practice real, authentic Bikram Yoga — safe, unchanged, uncompromised, as we have done since 1998 and in a more professional setting.

Our new school is small.  We will limit each session to 11 people, and offering only 14 sessions per week, all the real Bikram Beginning Yoga Class.  We offer no amentities, it is not a spa or a “service” business.  It is a Yoga school, a Yoga Therapy Center.  At a school you learn.  The subject of learning will continue to not be Yoga or Postures, but You — your body, your mind, your health, your life.  It has always been a Center for Self-Realization, and health maintenance, where you can cure yourself of chronic disease.

Our school is not like what you may be used to at the Yoga studios or fitness centers you have gone to, come to expect, including our previous world renowned 7,000 sq. ft. school where we have been until 2022.

Instead of changing the Yoga to continue to offer and present it like a fitness center, or a little “meditation” studio, as everyone else has done, we have re-imagined how it is offered and presented without changing the Yoga.  Part of how Bikram Yoga has worked to make Yoga available to everyone and anyone was in its simplifying it to make Yoga more accessible.  We have simplified our school as well.  It is not for everyone, but it will be for anyone who really wants it.  We will still have the most experienced and Certified Bikram Yoga Teachers.