Are you ready for a challenge?
It took Veronique - our chief Yoga Linguist, just 16 seconds to say the name of these 10 yoga poses in Sanskrit. Can you do better? Here are the pose names...... Supta Jathara Parivartanasana - (Supine spinal twist) Eka Pada Pawanmuktasana - (One Legged...
In conversation with the creators of the exciting new YogaLingo App
YogaLingo is the fast and fun way to learn Sanskrit for Yoga. The YogaLingo App is not an App to teach yoga – there is no App for that! It is however a fun training App to help you memorise the Sanskrit names for yoga poses. Available for download on the Apple App...
Monkey business: What’s in the name hanumanasana?
Some yoga poses derive their Sanskrit name from Indian mythology. One of my favorite stories is the one of Hanuman, the Monkey god, and its link to the pose called hanumanasana. A devout mother Once upon a time, Anjana a very devout woman prayed to the gods to become...