The old adage “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” certainly applies to Active Yoga.
The spotlessly clean and light-filled studio, which opened at the north end of Toronto’s Roncesvalles neighbourhood in 2001, focuses solely on the method developed by world-famous yogi Bikram Choudhury in the 1970s.
Like the hundreds of other Bikram studios around the world, Active Yoga’s classes are 90 minutes long and consist of a sequence of 26 postures in a humid space heated to 40 degrees C.
“Unlike other yoga classes, where the teacher might show up and say, ‘Okay, today we’re doing headstands,’ we do the same 26 postures every time,” explains owner Norm Greer. “It might sound boring, but after 26 years I’m not tired of it yet!”
