Exam Questions With Well Elaborated
Solutions
eka pada raja kapotasana - ANSWER -pigeon
bhujangasana - ANSWER -cobra
sukhasana - ANSWER -easy pose
janu sirsasana - ANSWER -head to knee pose
sirsasana - ANSWER -headstand
balasana - ANSWER -child's pose
baddha konasana - ANSWER -butterfly
malasana - ANSWER -malasana squat
utkatasana - ANSWER -chair pose
savasana - ANSWER -resting pose
dhristi - ANSWER -focused gaze
bandha - ANSWER -body lock
aum - ANSWER -primordial sound from which the whole universe was created;
aligns all 7 chakras
yoga sutras - ANSWER -196 Sanskrit sutras from Patañjali on the theory and
practice of yoga
, yamas - ANSWER -restraints; our moral ethics (ahimsa, satya, asteya,
brahmacharya, aparigraha)
niyamas - ANSWER -observances; how we react to yamas (saucha, santosha,
tapas, svadhyaya, ishvara pranidhana)
asana - ANSWER -physical posture
pranayama - ANSWER -breath work
pratyahara - ANSWER -going in/withdrawal of the senses
dharana - ANSWER -focus and concentration
dhyana - ANSWER -meditation
Krishnamacharya - ANSWER -father of modern yoga
BKS Iyengar - ANSWER -creator of Iyengar yoga (led to restorative)
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois - ANSWER -creator of Ashtanga yoga
Pantajali - ANSWER -author of the Yoga Sutras
arjuna - ANSWER -great hero of the Indian epic Mahabharata and the
philosophical-religious dialogue Bhagavad Gita
psoas - ANSWER -each of a pair of large muscles which run from the lumbar
spine through the groin on either side and, with the iliacus, flex the hip
fascia - ANSWER -connect physical body with energetic body - connective tissue
synovial fluid - ANSWER -the small amount of liquid within a joint used as
lubrication