Bikram (other)
Bikram may refer to: People * Bikram Choudhury (born 1944), founder of Bikram Yoga * Bikram Grewal, Indian ornithologist * Bikram Keshari Deo (1952–2009), Indian politician * Bikram Singh (musician) (born 1980), bhangra musician and lawyer * Bikram Singh Majithia, Indian politician Other uses * Bikram, Patna, a town in India * Bikram Yoga, a form of "hot yoga" See also *Vikram (other) Vikram may refer to: * Vikram (name), an Indian male name * Vikram (rocket family), under development rocket family by Skyroot Aerospace * Vikram (spacecraft), an Indian Moon lander * Vikram, a character based on Vikramaditya in ''Baital Pachisi' ...

Bikram Choudhury
Bikram Choudhury (born 1944) is an Indian-American yoga guru, and the founder of Bikram Yoga, a form of hot yoga consisting of a fixed series of 26 postures practised in a hot environment of . The business became a success in the United States and then across the Western world, with a variety of celebrity pupils. His former wife Rajashree Choudhury assisted him in the yoga business. In 2009, he began a series of copyright claims to protect the series of postures of Bikram Yoga; this was ultimately unsuccessful, and other studios continue to teach the series. Choudhury was the subject of civil suits alleging sexual assault and discrimination against racial and sexual minorities. In 2017, a court awarded $7 million to his former lawyer, Minakshi Jafa-Bodden, who gained control of his yoga business when Choudhury fled to India without paying her. Since then he has continued to train yoga teachers outside the United States in countries including Spain and Mexico. Life, Work, and ...
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