From: Saudi Arabia

Started practicing Bikram Yoga: Almost 13 years ago

Favorite Posture: Trikonasana (Triangle pose)

Why practice Bikram Yoga:

Bikram Yoga was the door that led me to the world of yoga, the world of connecting to the self, the whole world and the universe.

I’ve always believed in the practice and extremely grateful that it took me beyond my limitations. It took me just one class, one steamy powerful class in Bikram’s torture chamber, and the magic started happening. Like many others, I was also someone who had never experienced any sort of yoga before.

After tasting the medicine of this therapeutic practice I used to sometimes travel solo only to be able to practice Bikram Yoga as there are no studios in Saudi Arabia that (was) banning the practice of yoga altogether.

Bikram Yoga helped me build mental strength as much as it helped improving my physical body. I was able to face my fears and insecurities to unleash a man that I didn’t know existed inside me. The more I practice the more I love it. And I see my practice grows into me as much as I grow into it. My ultimate dream is to bring it and share it with my fellow countrymen.

We have started bringing Bikram Yoga nowadays to Saudi Arabia in shy but very confident steps, and we will only sweat more and go up from here.