August Bank Holiday Schedule

For the August Bank Holiday Weekend we are running our normal schedule on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Bank Holiday Monday 30th August we are running a "Sunday schedule" : 10am, 12 noon, 5pm

BYR Becomes CarbonNeutral®

We've talked about doing this for a long time but this year we have finally gotten around to doing something about it and have been accredited as a CarbonNeutral® company.

We now offset our carbon footprint by sponsoring a project to capture the volatile greenhouse gas methane from a managed landfill site.

We're not absolutely certain but we believe that we may be the first Bikram Yoga studio in the world to be accredited with this status.

Matt and Kristin at the International Yoga Championships

There was a great buzz around the studio in February as our UK Champions, Matt Farci and Kristin Bergman, travelled to LA to represent the UK (and our little studio!) at the International Yoga Asana Championship.

Many of our students stayed up until past 3am to watch Kristin who performed beautifully and came 16th, just 3 points off the Top 10, in a competition of very high standard.

Matt qualified through into the Top 10 and to Finals Day where he came 5th. Incredible performance. Congratulations, Matt!

We have begun training preparations for this year's UK Championships. A group of students are already keenly doing their "homework". If you have an interest in competing or want to know more about what this yoga championship is about, speak to Johnny or Kristin.

Haiti Earthquake Appeal raises £4,440

Thank you to everyone who donated to the DEC Haiti Earthquake Appeal at the studio and online. Students raised £2,220 for the appeal. As pledged, Bikram Yoga Richmond has matched your donations and sent a cheque to the DEC for £2,220, making the total raised through the studio to a wonderful £4,440! Thank you again, and well done.

Richmond Win at UK Yoga Championships

Our school enjoyed incredible success at this year's UK Yoga Asana Championships. Twelve students from Richmond entered the championships and trained hard for many months in preparation. All that hard work paid off when Kristin Bergman and Matt Farci, both representing Richmond, won the Women's and Men's Division. And it didn't stop there, Sue Gosling from our school came 3rd in the Women's and Cassiano Garcia came 3rd in the Men's.

Good luck to Kristin and Matt who are now training towards representing the UK at the International Championships in Los Angeles in February.

Full Results:

Men’s Division
1st Matt Farci (Richmond)
2nd Richard Samson (London City)
3rd Cassiano Garcia (Richmond)

Women’s Division
1st Kristin Bergman (Richmond)
2nd Bridgett Ane Goddard (London)
3rd Sue Gosling (Richmond)

 

Richmond Host UK Yoga Asana Championship

Richmond is hosting this year's UK Yoga Asana Championship. We are pleased to announce that Rajashree Choudhury (right) will be our very special guest at this year's event, which will be held on Sunday 22nd November at 5pm at Queen Charlotte Hall, RACC, Parkshot, Richmond TW9 2RE.

The championships are a celebration of yoga asana practice, as yogis from all over the UK come together to demonstrate what can be achieved through regular yoga asana practice.

Tickets for the event are on sale from all Bikram Yoga studios from 1st November.

If you have enquiries about this event please contact us through our contact page.

International Asana Champion Esak Garcia Posture Clinic

On Saturday 26th and Sun 27th September Esak Garcia, International Asana Champion 2005, will be conducting posture clinics at the studio. Details and reservations at reception.

To accommodate these clinics there will be no lunchtime classes (11am/12noon) and on Sun 27th morning class will be held at 9am. On both days the afternoon class will be held at 6pm instead of 5pm.

 

Johnny at International Yoga Championships

In January, Johnny competed at the UK Asana Championships and went on to represent the UK at the International Asana Championships held in Los Angeles in February.

"I didn't think I was ready to compete this year but I'm glad that I did as being involved with the international competition was quite an inspirational experience."

Johnny spent a week training with Mary Jarvis at his old studio in San Francisco prior to heading to LA for the finals.

Competition Winner

Congratulations to John Middleton. John entered our website launch competition and won himself a year membership at the studio worth £999!

New Website Launch

Welcome to our new website! We hope you like our new look. We will be adding a couple of further features to this site in the coming weeks, including some Flash and more info on our Community pages.

Studio Facelift

If you haven't been into the studio for a while, you may not recognise us when you come back in! We are half-way through a full revamp of the reception area and have re-fitted out the men’s toilet area. We’ll post some more photos of the studio space once the work is complete.

Even more exciting than the building work is what we are doing with the stairwell and down into the front porch where we are positioning a number of big canvas prints from our photo-shoot that took place earlier in the year.