Amanda Free

Mandy met Bikram in 1983 at his L.A. studio. Her first class was hell! It was too hot and she felt like she couldn't breathe! She tried to leave but he talked her back into the room. By the second class, she was hooked.
After one week, Bikram asked her to become a teacher. The timing was not good, so she kept practising regularly with him, when she was in L.A., and alone in her front room with extra heaters, when she was in London (no studios there at that time!), for the following twelve years.
In 1995, she took the training and she came back to London later that year, as the first Bikram teacher in the U.K. She has taught regularly ever since, keeping her practice up even through her two pregnancies.
Mandy would like to thank her friend Dotty Candler for introducing her to Bikram and changing her life for the better.