FWIW, most Bikram Yoga studios don't pay any franchise fee to Bikram. Everyone who is a certified BY teacher paid Bikram for the training, so in a very indirect way, he benefits from your patronage of a BY studio.For many years, Bikram told studio owners that they could use his name as long as they did the series…

I teach Bikram yoga. The yoga series he put together (26 tradition Hatha yoga postures) is pretty amazing, IMHO. I have a whole bunch of opinions about Bikram the person, but none of those opinions can diminish the value of the yoga he teaches. I keep reading the comments here from people who hated their Bikram yoga…

Kids ask way more often than adults! I agree that people who don't ask to pet the dog (and don't, by their approach, get the dog's OK to be touched) deserve to be growled at—that's the dog's way of saying, "hey, I don't know you, not sure I like that." But the second my dog growls (or yelps or whimpers) in response to…

IME, there are a lot of people who believe, "Dogs LOVE me! ALL dogs love me!" These are the people who will insist on "saying hi" to a dog, even after they've been told he is skittish around strangers. People who do all the stuff you're not supposed to do around a strange dog—stare him down, hover above him or reach…