{"id":12850,"date":"2013-06-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/06\/27\/world-s-largest-bikram-yoga-class-hits-times-square\/"},"modified":"2013-06-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T12:00:00","slug":"world-s-largest-bikram-yoga-class-hits-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/06\/27\/world-s-largest-bikram-yoga-class-hits-times-square\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Largest Bikram Yoga Class Hits Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20120620\/times-square-theater-district\/worlds-largest-bikram-yoga-class-hits-times-square\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, June 20, 2013 (DNAinfo): The smoldering heat was nothing to thousands of yogis who turned out in Times Square Wednesday for the world&#8217;s largest Bikram Yoga class. The 92-degree weather was substantially less than the 105 degrees &#8212; and 40 percent humidity &#8212; of a typical indoor Bikram class.<\/p>\n<p>More than 14,000 yogis spread out across several of Times Square&#8217;s pedestrian plazas spent an hour and a half balancing, bending, and stretching, one of three classes being at the Crossroads of the World in the annual celebration of the summer solstice.<\/p>\n<p>The class, a set of 26 postures and two breathing exercises, was run by Rajashree Choudhury, a five-time winner of the All-India Yoga Championship and wife of Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram Yoga. &#8220;If you can make it in Times Square perfectly, then you are a perfect yogi,&#8221; she told her captivated audience before the class. &#8220;The solstice is the celebration of the sun. As yogis, we worship the sun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event, put on by the Times Square Alliance and activewear maker Athleta, has become an opportunity for many to experience a more peaceful version of one of the busiest parts of the city. The Times Square Alliance will host one more class on Wednesday, starting at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, June 20, 2013 (DNAinfo): The smoldering heat was nothing to thousands of yogis who turned,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}