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What is wheel, disk, vortex, or energy center?
There are a number of ways the word chakra can be defined - name two
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What is Utkatasana?
Called ‘Chair Pose’ in Sanskrit, this posture is sure to bring some heat into you body.
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What is Yoga?
This is Ayurveda's sister science
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What is moves downward?
During inhalation, the diaphragm contracts and therefore, does this.
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Who is Patanjali?
The Yoga Sutras was written by this great sage.
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What is Svadhisthana?
The Sanskrit name for the chakra located at the sacral plexus
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What is Ardha Uttanasana?
This posture follows Adho Mukha Svanasana in the traditional Surya Namaskar A
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What is structure and lubrication?
Kapha dosha is responsible for these energetics in our mind/body continuum
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What is Ujjayi pranayama?
This method of breathing is to be practice while performing asana.
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What is one who sheds light on the dark?
The word ‘guru’ means this in Sanskrit.
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What are the legs and feet?
Muladhara chakra is associated with which parts of your physical body
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What is revolved, or twisted?
Parivritta is a Sanskrit word that means
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What is Prakruti?
When learning to manage the imbalances in your body-mind continuum, you are ultimately returning your body-mind to this state.
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What are the abdominals?
In order to correctly practice Kapalabhati pranayama, a rhythmical contracting and relaxing of these muscles must take place.
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Who is Anodea Judith
A modern day expert on the chakra system, she wrote the highly regarded and groundbreaking book Eastern Body, Western Mind.
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What is yellow, orange and red
Name the colours that are associated with the lower three chakras
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What is Bhujangasana?
This is the Sanskrit name for ‘cobra pose’
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What are ether/space, air, fire, water and earth?
The bhutas are defined as these five things.
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What is Anuloma Veloma?
Nadi shodhana, an alternate nostril breathing practice, is very similar to this other pranayama practice.
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Who is BKS Iyengar?
Suffering with debilitating illnesses for many years of his young life, this forefather of modern yoga authored close to 100 books.
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What is upward, from root to crown
Mukti, or freedom, is known as the liberating pathway in the chakra system. What direction does this imply?
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What are arm balances?
Bakasana, or crow pose, falls into this category of postures
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What are fire and water?
Pitta dosha is comprised of these two bhutas.
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What is pranamaya kosha?
The energetic layer of the subtle body is called this in Sanskrit.
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Who is Swami Sivananda?
This modern day guru was a doctor before branching into the world of spiritual practice, and Michelle attended two of his lineages training intensives.
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