For example I imagine Susan SUEING me for not having enough yoga mats in my class.

Sanskrit names for yoga. Anga means limb in terms of your body parts and the 8 limbs of yoga. All yoga poses are divided into different categories. Sanskrit for Yoga Poses - Yoga by Design.

Ashram ash-rem A yoga hermitage or a school of yoga. When uttana is combined with asana there is a contraction so instead of two as there is just one. One day you may need your Sanskrit.

When a new student arrives at my class and says My name is Susan I immediately create a bizarre image in my mind that will trigger each time I see her. Lizette Pompa in Warrior III - Linnea Ahlgren in Warrior I - Amaranta Aguilar in Warrior II. Sava means corpse or body.

First note the words strung together are taken from 4 categories anatomy animals sagesdieties objects. Body parts in Sanskrit. The Sanskrit names commonly arent inconsistent though in a few cases there is more than one Sanskrit name for the same pose.

Usage Varies by Instructor. Sanskrit is an Indian classical language which is vehemently used while practicing yoga to define the names of the poses. Sun Salutation Sequence - In Sanskrit this is Surya Namaskar but most instructors refer to the English variation.

Some asanas have hyperlinks for deeper learning about the pose. And the Sanskrit names do describe the pose pretty accurately once you learn to understand what they mean. Each yoga pose name in Sanskrit ends with asana.