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Mr. Ian Terry is the founder and lead Bikram yoga instructor at YogaFX in Bali: E-RYT 500, 12,000+ teaching hours, and five years of training, from 2014 to 2019, directly with the founder of the Bikram Hot 26&2 method.

Bali has hundreds of yoga retreats. They range from 3-day weekend packages at boutique guesthouses to 21-day immersions at purpose-built retreat centres. The marketing language is almost identical across all of them: transformative, life-changing, authentic,...

Bali is one of the few places in the world where you can practice both Bikram yoga and Ashtanga yoga at genuinely high standards - Bikram at YogaFX in Seminyak and Canggu, Ashtanga at studios like Samadi and The Practice in Canggu and The Yoga Barn in Ubud. The...

The most common question from people considering yoga teacher training in Bali is some version of this: I want to do it, but I'm not sure I'm ready. I don't have years of practice. I'm not very flexible. I've only been doing yoga for a few months. Is teacher training...

Finding the best yoga studio in Bali depends on a question that most 'best of' guides skip: best for what? Best for spiritual depth is a different answer from best for calorie burn, which is different from best for authentic lineage, which is different from best for a...

Every hot yoga studio in the UK, USA, Australia, and Europe uses electric heaters. Without them, the room would not reach 40°C. This is accepted as standard - so standard, in fact, that most hot yoga practitioners have never experienced the practice in any other...

Hot yoga is one of the most studied yoga formats in peer-reviewed research - more than any other style. The combination of the fixed Bikram 26&2 sequence and the 40°C humid heat environment has made it an unusually measurable subject for clinical research. The...

Bali offers both. The island's studio scene spans traditional Hatha and Ashtanga in open-air Ubud shalas, dynamic Vinyasa flows in Canggu's rooftop studios, and authentic Bikram hot yoga in natural tropical heat in Seminyak and Canggu. The question is not which is...

The 26&2 sequence is the foundation of Bikram yoga - 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises performed in a fixed order in a room heated to 40°C. It is one of the most thoroughly studied yoga formats in peer-reviewed research, one of the most precisely structured...