Bikram Choudhury is the founder of Bikram Yoga, a sequence of 26 yoga postures and breathing exercises developed in the 1970s in the U.S. after he began his yoga studies in India with guru Bishnu Charan Ghosh. Born in Calcutta in 1944, Choudhury moved to the United States in the early 1970s and opened a studio in Los Angeles, attracting celebrity students and building a global empire. His claims of winning National India Yoga Championships are disputed. In the late 2010s, his legacy was tarnished by sexual harassment allegations, a civil lawsuit, and a Netflix documentary that chronicled his rise and fall.