The Language of Yoga: Complete A to Y Guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants
Nicolai Bachman
Language: English
Pages: 139
ISBN: 1591792819
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Have you ever been bewildered in yoga class by the terms the teacher uses? What is the deeper meaning of these terms? How can you benefit by knowing them?
For passionate and curious yoga students, The Language of Yoga offers the definitive A-Y of asana names and Sanskrit terms (there is no Z in Sanskrit!). This interactive set includes more than 200 asanas with illustrated yoga postures and 300 Sanskrit definitions.
Sanskrit scholar Nicolai Bachman teaches you how to read and pronounce these sacred sounds with precision, and guides you through seven yoga chants with exact rhythm, tone, and pronunciation. An indispensable reference guide for any serious student of yoga.
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behaviors). Next are the niyamas (personal behaviors), which are like internal yamas. Āsanas (physical postures) keep our body flexible, strong, and healthy. Prāṇāyāma (breath regulation) is even more subtle and begins to purify the mind. Pratyāhāra (internalization of the senses) brings one further inward by removing sense distractions from the mind. The last three limbs, termed “antaraṅga,” meaning “inner limbs,” all take place in one’s consciousness. Dhāraṇā enables
The Upaniṣads are the source of Vedānta philosophy. The thirteen texts discussed here are the most common. They are extrapolations and encapsulations of the Vedas and shared with a student who was sitting (ṣad), near (upa), and beneath (ni) the teacher. TRACK 26 Vāyus (winds of the body) Vāyus are the primary components of breath. These energies are responsible for all movement in the body. Governed by prāṇa, all five affect and are affected by an āsana. TRACK 27
through the entire second or third series, simply replace the “seated postures” section of the first series with the core postures shown in the second or third series. AṢṬĀṄGA FIRST SERIES Yoga Cikitsā Yoga Therapeutics Invocation Chant: Vande Gurūṇām TRACK 30 Devotion to the lotus feet of all gurus, equated with Śiva. Second half to Patañjali, considered an incarnation of Viṣṇu. I worship the lotus feet of all the gurus, which awaken and manifest joy in oneself;
Sanskrit is said to have been divinely revealed to meditating sages thousands of years ago. One story tells of Śiva beating his damaru drum fourteen times and creating the Sanskrit alphabet. These fourteen “Maheśvara Sūtras” form the beginning of the text defining Sanskrit grammar. The alphabet is perfectly designed for the human vocal apparatus, and the sound of each word represents the subtle energy of its meaning. Because each syllable
Crow (Kākāsana): see Bakāsana (crane) Dancer: Naṭarājāsana Dangling: Lolāsana Dangling: Tolāsana Dead: Śavāsana Direction: Digāsana / Vīrabhadrāsana 3 Dog, downward facing: Adho-Mukha-Śvānāsana Dog, upward facing: Ūrdhva-Mukha-Śvānāsana Downward - air: Apānāsana Downward - facing - fish: Adho-Mukha-Matsyāsana Downward - facing - tree: Adho-Mukha-Vṛkṣāsana Eagle: Garuḍāsana Ear - pressure: Karṇapīḍāsana Easy: Sukhāsana Endless/Viṣṇu: Anantāsana Equal - angle: Samakoṇāsana