Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of IndiaTM . Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram began Yoga at the age of five with Bishnu Ghosh, brother of Paramanhasa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi, founder of the Self Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles). Bikram practiced Yoga four to six hours a day at Ghosh’s College of Physical Education in Calcutta, and at the age of thirteen, he won the National India Yoga contest. He was undefeated for three years. Bikram arrived in the United States in 1973 at the invitation of President Nixon. He quickly became the foremost yoga teacher in the west, helping millions of students worldwide through his school in Beverly Hills and at over 600 affiliates schools worldwide.
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