Fitness Hot Yoga engages students through the movement of the 26 poses and two breathing exercises of the Bikram method. Created in the 1970s by Yogi Bikram Choudhury, this flow of poses was derived from the traditional hatha yoga techniques and was designed to help increase flexibility, strength, and breathing. Fitness Hot Yoga leads students through poses such as the balancing stick pose—balancing on one foot as the center of gravity while the other leg stretches out behind, and the chest and arms mirror in the opposite direction, the back lying as flat like a table top.