Bikram Yoga Dallas, the hot-yoga studio on Mockingbird and Abrams above Tom Thumb has remodeled and expanded and will reopen this week. Owners David and Karen Buckner have added to the Bikram Dallas floorplan the adjacent suite, making for a larger yoga room and expanded dressing rooms.
I’ve been doing Bikram since December when I injured myself running. I had heard great things about the healing powers of hot yoga. The classes are 90 minutes. The room is 105 degrees. The postures are challenging and the teachers are fairly militant. It is not easy, and some days are downright torturous. But, since I’ve been going three times a week, I have noticed an amazing shift in the way I feel overall. My body never feels sore anymore (that is except for the past week that the studio has been closed for renovation). I work out a lot and I sit at a desk hunched over a computer most of the time, so soreness had become a fact of life until I started Bikram. Anyway, if you are interested in giving it a shot, they offer a $40 introductory month.
A few years ago when I first started at the Advocate, I interviewed an amazing East Dallas resident named Joseph Encinia (pictured), a once sickly and fragile child who told us how Bikram yoga changed his life forever. Joseph, an instructor at Bikram Dallas, has since won the Texas Yoga Asana Championship 2010 National Bishnu Ghosh Cup — he’s something of a celebrity among his fellow yogis.
Classes at Bikram Dallas resume tomorrow, Thursday, beginning at 5:30 a.m. 6333 E. Mockingbird. 214.824.YOGA.
