Breath
This type of pranayama is often referred to colloquially as "Bumble Bee Breath".
What is Bhramari?
Using this to align the bones allows for the body to use much less muscular activity.
What is gravity?
This the name of a muscle that contracts to produce a certain action about a joint. It is also known as the "prime mover".
What is an Agonist Muscle?
Opposite of the term "medial", this is describing something away from the midline.
This limb of yoga relates to using controlled breath, which can take on many different forms.
What is Pranayama?
This bandha is located in the throat and helps calm the nervous system while holding breath at the top of an inhale.
What is Jalandhara?
This type of stretch contracts antagonist muscles to stretch a target muscle.
What is active static stretch?
The four muscles of the rotator cuff are...
What is Supraspinatus, Infraspinatus, Teres Minor, and Subscapularis?
This is the term for the proximal attachment of the muscle to the bone.
What is the Origin?
The four main movements of the spine are...
What is flexion, extension, rotation, and lateral flexion?
This type of pranayama invites a three part wave-like breath which helps open breathing muscles in the ribs.
What is Dirga?
This type of stretch allows the muscles to relax completely into the stretch and only uses body weight and gravity.
What is Passive Static Stretch?
The thing that connects muscle to bone.
What is a Tendon?
This term is used when referencing something towards the front of the body.
What is Anterior?
This is a lattice-like matrix of thin sheets of connective tissue that cover organs and muscles.
Practicing the pranayama of Bhastrika requires...
What is forceful inhale and exhale through the nose?
This type of stretch involves repetitive movement of the body into increasingly deeper stretches.
What is a Dynamic Stretch?
This is the name of a muscle that relaxes while the prime mover contracts. This muscle produces the opposite action about the joint.
What is an Antagonist muscle?
This connects bone to bone and are non-contractile, providing joint stability.
What is a Ligament?
This Bandha creates a belly lock in the lungs by holding the breath at the bottom of the exhale, fully emptying the lungs.
What is Uddiyana?
The difference between Sheetali breath and Sheetkari breath is...
What is Sheetali uses a rolled tongue and Sheetkari uses a folded tongue?
This type of stretch contracts the muscle being stretched during an active static stretch.
What is Facilitated Stretch?
This is the name of the specific muscle that helps raise the shoulders and is attached to the scapula.
What is the Levator Scapula?
This term describes a lateral deviation and rotational deformity of the spine.
What is Scoliosis?
These two specific muscles are the primary muscles that flex the hip.
What is Rectus Femoris and the Psoas?