What happens when you put a yoga teacher, a schoolteacher and a Downtown Eastside classroom full of Grade 1 and 2 students together? Read on to find out …

We're super excited to announce that we'll be carrying unisex Native Blanca Sandals in our Cambie and Kitsilano studios. These unbelievably comfortable sandals have landed just in time for beach season. More details after the jump!

[IMAGE CREDIT: The Arthritis Society]

Leah, 19, has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis – an inflammation of the synovial membrane that lines the joints (like the knees or knuckles). When the membrane gets inflamed, liquid is produced and the joints can become stiff, swollen and painful. Read her story and join Leah as she embarks on her own, Mini Bikram Yoga Experiment; we’ll check in with her over the next three months to see how her practice is helping her condition.

[IMAGE CREDITS: Roost]

May is Asparagus Month! In honour of this lovely spring vegetable, here’s yet another yummy recipe from Roost – an Alabama-based blog that features gluten-, grain-, lactose-, sugar- and starch-free food (plus gorgeous photography to boot!). Caitlin, who created the website, has kindly agreed to let us share her culinary creation with you – enjoy!

This 35-year-old pharmacist from Dunkerque, France, took his very first Bikram Yoga class while visiting Vancouver last September. He was 308 pounds at the time. The experience changed his life dramatically – read Jean’s profile to find out how!

Bikram Yoga can offer many benefits, including a healthy complexion. The hot room creates the perfect, pore-opening environment for sweat to push waste and toxins embedded deep within the skin out. Bikram Yoga is also a great stress-buster, meaning less opportunity for worry-induced blemishes to pop up. Still, there are steps you can take before and after practice to ensure your skin stays at its best. Stephanie Baresh, marketing director of Éminence (one of our fave organic skin-care lines, with Vancouver headquarters just down the street from the Cambie Studio) shows us how!

Suffering a painful pinched sciatic nerve, BYV student Thom R. tried everything: painkillers, anti-inflammatory meds, muscle relaxants. None worked, and practising Bikram Yoga – something he’d done daily for years – became a real challenge. So when Lisa P. suggested he see her osteopath (Don Griffis at the Fluid Motion Clinic of Osteopathy in North Vancouver), he decided to give it a shot …

Starting April 30th, we're adjusting our class schedules at our Cambie and West End studios. We're super excited to add a 2:00pm class to Cambie and adjusting the 6:30am class at the west end to a modified Monday, Wednesday, Friday rotation. 

After watching the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Kevin, a former investment banker, decided to leave the corporate world for high-performance sports. Despite never trying it before, he chose long track speed skating as his pursuit, quitting his job in Vancouver and moving to Calgary to train full time at Canada’s National training centre. Find out how Bikram Yoga helped take Kevin from a “slightly pudgy cubicle dweller” (his words, not ours!) to a competitor on the Canada Cup circuit.

This series of blog posts features tips and tricks by teachers and students, each of whom has mastered a specific posture in the Bikram Yoga series! Think of it as an “insider’s guide” to doing the poses – each week you’ll learn something new that will help you advance your own practice!