I ask whether Bikram Yoga promotes spiritual growth. “You Westerners are like spiritual babies,” Choudhury says. “You were born in the wrong country, with the wrong skin color, in the wrong culture. You can never be spiritual! It is not your fault. I’m sorry about that. If you can even get the body right, that much is good enough for you!” Read More http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201102/yoga-guru-bikram-choudhury?printable=true#ixzz1idEAgAiW this sounds so fucking lame. i’m not trying to hate, i’ve even gone to bikram classes here and there, but this guy sounds like a JACK ASS. furthermore, skin color has NOTHING TO DO WITH SPIRITUALITY and the fact that my coach is doing 30 days of this makes me wonder what kind of “detox” fanatics we can all be, with an emphasis on an entirely skewed, misguided, result. *olympic yoga? hm, isn’t the mantra “there’s no perfect in yoga. there’s no perfect in life”

I ask whether Bikram Yoga promotes spiritual growth.

“You Westerners are like spiritual babies,” Choudhury says. “You were born in the wrong country, with the wrong skin color, in the wrong culture. You can never be spiritual! It is not your fault. I’m sorry about that. If you can even get the body right, that much is good enough for you!”



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this sounds so fucking lame. i’m not trying to hate, i’ve even gone to bikram classes here and there, but this guy sounds like a JACK ASS. furthermore, skin color has NOTHING TO DO WITH SPIRITUALITY and the fact that my coach is doing 30 days of this makes me wonder what kind of “detox” fanatics we can all be, with an emphasis on an entirely skewed, misguided, result.

*olympic yoga? hm, isn’t the mantra “there’s no perfect in yoga. there’s no perfect in life”