Born in Calcutta in 1946, Bikram Choudhury began Yoga at the age of four with India's most-renowned physical culturist at the time, Bishnu Ghosh. At the age of thirteen, he won the National India Yoga Championship. He was undefeated for the following three years. At seventeen, an injury to his knee during a weight-lifting accident brought the prediction from leading European doctors that he would never walk again.

Not accepting their pronouncement, he had himself carried back to Bishnu Ghosh's school, for he knew that if anyone could help to heal his knee, it was his teacher. Six months later, his knee had totally recovered. Ghosh was a celebrated physical culturist and the first to scientifically document Yoga's ability to cure chronic physical ailments and heal the body, especially chronic physical ailments.

Bikram is the founder of Yoga College of India and has studied the benefits of yoga at some of the worlds leading medical research centers. Bikram's method has also been approved by the American Medical Association. Bikram is one of the most knowledgeable Hatha yoga teachers and has brought his curative method of yoga worldwide with now over 3 million addicts!