Asana and sequencing
These two body parts matter the least in pose alignment.
What are hands and feet?
To place in specific and intentional order.
What is Vinyasa?
A practice of surrender and devotion, recognizing the Divine in everything.
What is Bhakti Yoga?
The name means "thousandfold wheel" and is a metaphor for infinity.
What is Sahasrara Chakra?
The two major parts of the skeleton.
What are Axial and Appendicular?
You would perform these poses to bring attention to center and provide balance.
What are twists?
Written ॐ शान्तिः in Devanagari, this is the chant for Universal Peace.
What is Om Shanti?
Two of the eight limbs of Yoga that involve physical and breath practice, and form a fundamental part of Hatha Yoga.
What are Asana and Pranayama?
Five forms or movements of life force energy.
What are Vayus? (Prana Vayu, Apana Vayu, Samhana Vayu, Vyana Vayu and Uddana Vayu)
Deep hip flexors that also form part of your core.
What are the psoas muscles?
The process of preparing the body with a series of introductory movements before introducing a challenging posture.
What is "Peak Pose" sequencing?
To stimulate Vagus nerve, to evoke meditation, to expand and control breath, and to create community.
Why do we chant?
The four parts of the mind that we acknowledge in meditation.
What are Buddhi (awareness), Manas (perception), Ahem Kara (sense of self), and Chitta (accumulated experiences)
What are Ida, Pingala and Susumna?
What is extension?
The movements performed in hip joints when coming into supta virasana.
What are internal rotation and extension?
The English translation of this chant is, "May all beings everywhere be happy and free".
What is Lokah Samastah Sukino Bhavantu?
A practice of cultivating opposing ideas at the same time.
What is pratipakshabhavana?
The five layers or sheaths of human experience and existence, observed by the Purusha.
What are the Koshas (anamyakosha, pranamayakosha, manamayakosha, vinyanamayakosha, anandamayakosha).
The movement at the shoulder joint when arms are held up by ears.
What is flexion?
The Sanskrit name for holding the big toe with one leg extended while balancing on the opposite leg.
What is utthita hasta padangusthasana?
Translated, this word means "truth is blissful consciousness".
What is Satchitananda?
The eternal, indestructable self as described by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita.
What is Atman?
a form of breath practice involving forceful exhalation and passive inhalation.
what is "skull shining breath" or Kappalabhati?
These leg muscles are activated eccentrically in the front leg when you move from legs straight to warrior 2 pose.
What are quadriceps?