Yoga Poses 1
This pose is created by making a three-sided shape with your body.
Triangle Pose or Trikonasana.
This pose has you standing on one leg with your arms out to the side, like a machine that helps moves people and goods from country-to-country.
Airplane Pose or Viminasana
The word yoga means...
Union
Yoga was developed in and around this country.
India
This skill developed by yoga helps you remain upright and not fall over.
Balance
Standing as tall as you can, this pose is a landform close to Calgary that you can visit.
Mountain Pose, or Tadasana
This pose has you laying on the ground like this reptile with a hood.
Cobra Pose or Bhujangasana
This word means to sit still in a comfortable position aiming to think about nothing
Meditate or Meditation
These ancient stories are what many yoga poses are named after.
Myths
This skill developed by yoga helps you lift up heavier things
Strength
This pose is when you sit with your legs crossed in front of you.
Easy Pose, or Sukhasana
DAILY DOUBLE: This pose is whichever pose that is your favourite.
Whatever your answer is!
This term is the name of the language yoga poses are written in.
Sanskrit
A repeated chant in Sanskrit, and often means an inspiring phrase in English.
Mantra
This skill developed by yoga helps you manage things that could be called out-of-control thoughts.
Mindfulness
Sitting as tall as you can with your legs out straight in front of you, this pose is named after a type of walking-stick.
Staff Pose or Dandasana.
Holding yourself at the top of a push-up position often reminds me the pirate's life.
Plank Pose or Phalakasana
This word-ending means "pose" in Sanskrit.
______-asana
This person wrote the Yoga Sutras thousands of years ago.
Patanjali
This skill developed by yoga helps your muscles stretch so that they can become longer and less tight.
Flexibility
With your arms and your legs, this pose makes the shape of the ears and the lips of this important and sacred animal in India.
Cow-Face Pose or Gomukhasana
This pose which exercises the lower back has you taking the shape of a swarming-insect that often eats crops.
Locust Pose or Salabasana
This word means sleep in Sanskrit
Nidra or Yoga-Nidra
The Five Schools of Yoga
Raja, Hatha, Bhakti, Karma, Jnana
This skill developed by yoga helps you locate your body and where it is in time and space
Body-Sense or Proprioception