8 limbs of yoga
Yoga Styles
Breathing Techniques
Topics covered on class days
Name that pose
100

A limb of yoga that involves doing yoga postures.

What is Asana?

100

This is the style of yoga we most often did in Yoga110

What is Hatha Yoga?

100

This breath involves taking the same count in inhales and exhales.

What is Equal Breath?

100

When you recognize the small things in life with appreciation.

What is Gratitude?

100
Standing upright at the top of the mat

What is Mountain Pose?

200

The "Pranayama" limb means this in yoga.  

What is Breath? 

200

This style of yoga involves doing yoga with a bunch of crazy goats running around. 

What is Goat Yoga?

200

This breath strengthens the diaphragm- which is an important muscle in the Respiratory System. 

What is 3 part breath or Diaphragmatic Breath? 


200

This quality has a ripple effect on all people you interact with. 

What is KINDNESS?

200

Pick someone on your team to demonstrate a Sun Salutation B

Bravo!!

300

This limb of yoga includes 5 suggestions to live morally in the outside world.  

What are the Yamas?

300

This style of yoga includes a lot of flow and movement.

What is power yoga?

300

This breath includes a longer exhale than inhale and its purpose is to balance the Nervous System quicker. 

What is the 4-2-6 breath  or the 4-7-8 breath? 

300

This word means to "yoke" or "connect" mind, body and spirit.

What is YOGA?

300

What is the flow called when you go from plank pose to the floor to a back bend to downward facing dog? 

What is Chaturanga?

400

This is the final goal in the 8 limbs of Yoga.  It means "Oneness".

What is Samadhi?

400

This style of yoga is slow and includes long held poses.  Often only a handful of poses are done in one class.  

What is Yin Yoga?

400

This breath brings energy into the body and the name sounds like it should be used in a choir. 

What is the Conductor Breath or Breath of Joy?

400

The idea of what you put out comes back to you.  Ex. when you put out positive energy,  you will receive positive energy. 

What is the Law of Attraction?

400

From Shoulder stand,  legs drop behind the head and toes move to the floor. 

What is Plow Pose?

500

Name 3 of the 5 Niyamas (in English)

What are:

Contentment,  self discipline, Clean body and mind (purificatio), self study, inner peace.

500

This fast paced style of yoga is very prescribed and begins with 5 Sun Salutation A's followed by 5 Sun Salutation B's.  

What is Ashtanga Yoga?

500

This breath involves blocking one side of the nose and breathing in and out of the other side, and then changing sides. 

What is Alternate Nostril Breath?

500

What are the 2 parts to our Peripheral Nervous System called and what is the meaning of each?

What are Sympathetic (fight or flight response) and Parasympathetic (calming).

500

Standing with one foot forward and the other foot back with both feet pointing forward,  legs are straight and torso is folding over the front leg. 

What is Pyramid Pose?