Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.
Yoga in America is a joke.
My system works, as long as people let me do my job my way. It is not just the sequence, it is how you do it: the timing, the mirrors, the temperature, the carpet. But if people only do it 99% right, it is 100% wrong. When someone tries to mess with it, the people won't get the yoga benefits.
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.
Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.
America's biggest problem is too much freedom.
Yoga only works one way.
I always forgave my students, like Jesus.
I'm a yogi, not a businessman.
So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.
You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit.
I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.
I started with nothing. Zero.
I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because 'Bikram' has restored it.
Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.
Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.
One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, 'No, you cannot do that.' You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.
