Kick start your new year health & wellbeing journey with a free session of hot yoga.
Bikram Yoga on Rutland Street is offering free taster classes all day on Sunday 8 January 2023, with options to join in at at 10am, 1pm and 4pm.
The studio in the Cultural Quarter has been open since the end of September 2022 following significant upgrades to the space, including adding a proper hot room with infrared heaters and showers.
The studio provides the same iconic Bikram hot yoga class which was originally brought to Leicester by instructor Libby Nockles some 20 years ago at a studio on Friar Lane.
The Friar Lane business closed back in 2019 following the sale of the building for student accommodation.
The new studio is now the only dedicated Bikram Yoga studio in the Midlands and has already attracted students from far and wide to seek out the original Bikram series taught by certified teachers.
Bikram Yoga is a form of yoga popularised by Bikram Choudhury in the 1970s and based on the teachings of his guru Bishnu Ghosh. The therapeutic practice involves 26 postures and two breathing exercises in a 90-minute class in a heated room.
Owner and certified Bikram instructor, Hannah Elwell said, “As a student of Bikram Yoga since 2008, it has been a dream come true for me to be able to establish my own studio in Leicester, especially here in the city’s prestigious St George’s Cultural Quarter.
“Except for two years leading up to and including the pandemic, we have had access to this incredibly powerful, healing yoga series in our city and I am delighted to be making it available again, especially at a time when our mental and physical health and wellbeing is such a priority.
“We are very lucky to have Bikram classes and teachers available in our city as there aren’t that many studios in the country, so I would urge anyone looking for a fitness class that will really make a difference to their lives, to come and join us for the Discovery Day.”
Anyone interested in coming to try a class during the event should register online in advance at https://bikramyogaleicester.com/schedule/ or WhatsApp 07968095235 for details.
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