About Us

Michael and Susan Houghton, Owners and Teachers at Bikram Yoga Fitzroy.

We feel blessed in having a passion for Bikram Yoga. Why? Maybe we could just say: "Because it all seems so right!" We started out practicing Bikram yoga on our own from Bikram Choudhury's book, Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class. At the time there was no Bikram studio in Melbourne, so we did the poses at home, standing in our walk-in wardrobe with a heater on at the highest temperature! As soon as the first Melbourne Bikram studio opened in Elsternwick, we were there in the first week and started a regular practice.

In 2005, we completed the teacher-training course with Bikram Choudhury himself in Los Angeles. For the next two years we worked hard on securing a property where we could open our own studio. After four attempts, rather than feeling total frustration, we decided to step back and just trust that the right thing would happen. So when the Fitzroy studio came up for sale, we knew the gods were smiling on us and we became studio owners - our dream of running our own Bikram studio fulfilled.

As students of Bikram yoga, we receive countless benefits: physical, mental, emotional and deeper.

As teachers of Bikram yoga, we receive great satisfaction passing these blessings on to our own students.

And as studio owners, Bikram yoga became an even bigger part of our life: a life of breath, of thought-before-action, of service to others, and of being able to make a positive contribution to this beautiful, sometimes crazy, but always precious world of ours.

We simply believe that the world needs yoga and we are grateful for having been given a chance to help others find health and happiness.

See you in the Studio!
Love, Michael and Susan