CORE POWER YOGA TESTS 2026 EXAM
PREPARATION PACK KEY POSES BREATHING
TECHNIQUES AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS WITH
EXPLANATIONS
◉ chair pose cues. Answer: lift your torso up, bend your knees and
sit back like there is a chair behind you, shift your weight into your
heels and reach your arms up and rotate your pinkies in, sit lower
into your chair. 2 more breaths here.
◉ Exhale Uttanasana. Answer: Forward fold
◉ Inhale Urdhva Uttanasana. Answer: Halfway Lift
◉ Exhale Chaturanga Dandasana. Answer: High plank to mid plank
◉ Inhale Urdhva Mukha Svanasana. Answer: Upward Facing Dog
◉ Exhale Adho Mukha Svanasana. Answer: Downward Facing Dog
◉ Inhale. Answer: Right leg high
,◉ Exhale. Answer: Low Lunge (send your right foot to your right
wrist)
◉ Inhale Virabhadrasana 2. Answer: Warrior 2 (right foot forward)
◉ Warrior 2 cues. Answer: lift your chest up and square to the side,
spin your back heel down and angle it slightly forward, point your
front foot forward and stack your knee over your ankle, reach your
arms in opposite directions, draw your shoulder blades together and
down your back.
◉ Exhale Utthita Parsvakonsana. Answer: Extended Side Angle
◉ Extended side angle cues. Answer: reach your front arm forward,
reach reach reach! and option to place your front elbow on your
thigh and send your back arm up, lift your ribs away from your thigh,
option to draw your gaze up.
◉ Inhale Parivrtta Virabhadrasana 2. Answer: Reverse Warrior
◉ Reverse Warrior cues. Answer: send your front arm up and place
your back hand on your thigh with little to no weight, lift up and
back and keep your chest open to the side, keep your front knee over
your front ankle and draw your gaze up
, ◉ Exhale Chaturanga Dandasana. Answer: High Plank to mid plank
◉ Inhale Urdhva Mukha Svansana. Answer: Upward Facing Dog
◉ Exhale Adho Mukha Svansana. Answer: Downward Facing Dog
◉ Inhale. Answer: Left leg high
◉ Exhale. Answer: Low lunge (left foot to your left wrist)
◉ Inhale Virabhadrasana 2. Answer: Warrior 2
◉ warrior 2 cues (left side). Answer: lift your chest up and square to
the side, spin your back heel down and angle it slightly forward,
point your front foot forward and stack your knee over your ankle,
reach your arms in opposite directions, draw your shoulder blades
together and down your back.
◉ Exhale Utthita Parsvakonasana. Answer: Extended Side Angle
◉ Extended side angle cues. Answer: reach your front arm forward,
reach reach reach! and option to place your front elbow on your
thigh and send your back arm up, lift your ribs away from your thigh,
option to draw your gaze up.
PREPARATION PACK KEY POSES BREATHING
TECHNIQUES AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS WITH
EXPLANATIONS
◉ chair pose cues. Answer: lift your torso up, bend your knees and
sit back like there is a chair behind you, shift your weight into your
heels and reach your arms up and rotate your pinkies in, sit lower
into your chair. 2 more breaths here.
◉ Exhale Uttanasana. Answer: Forward fold
◉ Inhale Urdhva Uttanasana. Answer: Halfway Lift
◉ Exhale Chaturanga Dandasana. Answer: High plank to mid plank
◉ Inhale Urdhva Mukha Svanasana. Answer: Upward Facing Dog
◉ Exhale Adho Mukha Svanasana. Answer: Downward Facing Dog
◉ Inhale. Answer: Right leg high
,◉ Exhale. Answer: Low Lunge (send your right foot to your right
wrist)
◉ Inhale Virabhadrasana 2. Answer: Warrior 2 (right foot forward)
◉ Warrior 2 cues. Answer: lift your chest up and square to the side,
spin your back heel down and angle it slightly forward, point your
front foot forward and stack your knee over your ankle, reach your
arms in opposite directions, draw your shoulder blades together and
down your back.
◉ Exhale Utthita Parsvakonsana. Answer: Extended Side Angle
◉ Extended side angle cues. Answer: reach your front arm forward,
reach reach reach! and option to place your front elbow on your
thigh and send your back arm up, lift your ribs away from your thigh,
option to draw your gaze up.
◉ Inhale Parivrtta Virabhadrasana 2. Answer: Reverse Warrior
◉ Reverse Warrior cues. Answer: send your front arm up and place
your back hand on your thigh with little to no weight, lift up and
back and keep your chest open to the side, keep your front knee over
your front ankle and draw your gaze up
, ◉ Exhale Chaturanga Dandasana. Answer: High Plank to mid plank
◉ Inhale Urdhva Mukha Svansana. Answer: Upward Facing Dog
◉ Exhale Adho Mukha Svansana. Answer: Downward Facing Dog
◉ Inhale. Answer: Left leg high
◉ Exhale. Answer: Low lunge (left foot to your left wrist)
◉ Inhale Virabhadrasana 2. Answer: Warrior 2
◉ warrior 2 cues (left side). Answer: lift your chest up and square to
the side, spin your back heel down and angle it slightly forward,
point your front foot forward and stack your knee over your ankle,
reach your arms in opposite directions, draw your shoulder blades
together and down your back.
◉ Exhale Utthita Parsvakonasana. Answer: Extended Side Angle
◉ Extended side angle cues. Answer: reach your front arm forward,
reach reach reach! and option to place your front elbow on your
thigh and send your back arm up, lift your ribs away from your thigh,
option to draw your gaze up.
