BIKRAM CHOUDRY DIRECTOR Bikram Choudry began learning Hatha Yoga poses in his native India, at the age of three. At five he began studying yoga with Bishnu Ghosh ( Paramahnsa Yogananda’s brother) and quickly became a yoga champion. At age eleven he was the youngest contestant ever to win a yoga competition. At age fourteen, Swami Shivananda declared him “Yogi Raj” (King of Yogis). At age twenty, a weight lifting accident crippled Bikram. With guidance of his guru, Bikram created his twenty-six posture series which restored his health. Combining Eastern discipline and Western medicine, Bikram perfected his comprehensive system suitable for all ages and levels of fitness. Bikram arrived in the United States in 1973 at the invitation of President Nixon, and the urging of Shirley Maclaine. He quickly became the foremost yoga teacher in the West, as celebrities, athletes, and others began to flock to him. Since that time he has been healing thousands of students at his school; in Beverly Hills and traveling the world extensively, bringing the benefits of “Bikram’s Beginning Yoga” to millions of students worldwide.