Bikram Yoga is associated with Bikram Choudhury, the founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India. Bikram Choudhury was born in Kolkata in the year 1946. Bikram began practicing Yoga at the age of four with Bishnu Ghosh, one of India's most-renowned physical culturist and Yoga Guru. Bikram Choudhury practiced Yoga at least four to six hours every day at Bishnu Ghosh's College of Physical Education in Kolkata. Bikram won the won the National India Yoga Championship at the age of just thirteen. For the next three years Bikram remained the National champion.

Bikram had a terrible accident at the age of seventeen when he injured his knees during the course of weight-lifting. It was thought that he would not be able to walk again. But Bikram was not the one to take things lying down as he knew the virtues of Yoga. Having full faith in the healing power of Yoga Bikram went to Ghosh's school. To the surprise of everyone, in the span of just six months, Bikram's knee had fully recovered. Bishnu Ghosh was a celebrated physical culturist and the first to scientifically certify Yoga's capacity to cure serious physical ailments.

Under the guidance of his guru, Bikram started several Yoga schools in India. These Yoga schools became so successful that Bikram toured many countries, including Japan, to open Yoga centers. There has been no looking back for Bikram since then. Bikram has propagated Yoga and its curative methods all over the world. Through Bikram Yoga Colleges, spread around the world, Bikram has been guiding students and others to the power and virtues of Yoga. Thousands of people have benefited through Bikram Yoga poses and postures.