BIKRAM YOGA RECORDING FROM 1978

Bikram Choudhury Teaching Bikram Yoga – 1978 (Audio Only Recording) This rare 1978 audio recording captures Bikram Choudhury teaching a full Bikram Yoga class nearly two decades before the first official written dialogue was released in 1997. What makes this recording remarkable is how familiar the instruction sounds. Even without a written script, the language, rhythm, and structure of the class closely resemble what would later become the standardized dialogue used by teachers around the world. For students and teachers of the method, this recording offers a fascinating glimpse into the living transmission of the series—showing how years of teaching, repetition, and refinement in the room eventually led to the formal dialogue that many teachers memorize today. You can listen closely and recognize the cadence, phrasing, and structure that would later be preserved in the official script. It is a rare opportunity to hear the teaching before it was written down, when the dialogue existed primarily as a spoken tradition. For those who practice or teach the 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises, this recording provides a unique historical moment in the development of the method—revealing how consistent the instruction already was long before standardization. 🎧 Audio Only 🕰 Recorded: 1978 📜 First official written dialogue released: 1997 A remarkable archive for anyone interested in the history and evolution of the Bikram Yoga method and the teaching style of Bikram Choudhury, who learned the tradition from his teacher Bishnu Charan Ghosh.