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Sanskrit Language System Flashcards

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Moon

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Chandra

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Sun

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Surya

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Vinyasa

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Sequences with beginning, middle, and an end–flow.

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Namaskar

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Salutation

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Reclined

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Supta

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Pigeon

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kapotasana

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King

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Raja

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Water

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Jala

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Spontaneity (in a pose)

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Sahaja

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Repetitive

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Kriya

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Energy, life force

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Prana

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Crime against wisdom

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Projnadparada

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Having enough pranic energy rising so that there is a feeling of bliss (pranic swell)

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Pranotthana

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Our individual constitution

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Prakriti

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Prakriti is comprised of

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  1. alignment of stars 2. parents’ constitution 3. karmic past
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Karmic debt

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When you act to cultivate your purpose for being here you experience karmic uptake. When you act against your purpose for being here you experience karmic loss.

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forward

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pra

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5

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pancha

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movement, force, wind

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vayus

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The 5 forces

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Pancha Vayus

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First energy that goes toward the core, the naval. This force lifts us out of collapsing into our joints (i.e., core work, arm balances, twists)

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Samana vayu

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Second energy that goes downward. A grounding force that allows us to root down in order to rise. Releases our physical and emotional waste (i.e., squats, uttkatasana, pigeon, frog, lunar poses)

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Apana vayu

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Third force of rising energy (related to our speech and our voice…yelling, shouting, owing)

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Udana vayu

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Forth force of outward, omnidirectional (expressing creative energy)

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Vyana

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Fifth force of circulating energy especially in the thoracic region; things that involve an inhale (up dog)

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prana (lowercase)

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What comprises Pancha Vayus?

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  1. Samana
  2. Apana
  3. Udana
  4. Vyana
  5. prana
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Science of

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Ayur

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Life

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Veda

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Ayurveda

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The Science of Life

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Constitutions

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Doshas

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Toxins

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Ama

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Self massage

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Abianga

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Wind, ether dosha (winter)

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Vata

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Fire dosha (summer)

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Pitta

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Earth, water dosha (fall)

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Kapha

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Chakra is sanskrit for…

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wheel, disc or any circular form of arrangement

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Posture

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West

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Paschima (back side of the body)

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Hand

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East

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Purva (front side of the body)

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Angle

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Bow

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Camel

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Intense

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Limb (arm/leg)

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Eagle

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Half

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Snake (cobra), serpent

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with support

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dam, dike, bridge

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bent, curved, angled

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standing with calmness, control of the mind, and equally weighted

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samasthiti

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child, beginning

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lock

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plow

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boat (also means 9)

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spread out or stretched out

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prasasrita

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done with ease

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Thumb (or big toe)

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The mother of Hanuman

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Grounding or downward moving energy

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8 Limbs

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Bound

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Wheel

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Staff (as in stick)

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Knee

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Lord of the fishes

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Matsyendra

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Seal, Gesture

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Facing

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Foot

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Revolved Twisted

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Side of Flank

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The Vital Energy

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To prolong

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Full

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Same, Equal, calmness, tranquility

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Whole

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Anga

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Limbs or body

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The whole body

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Corpse

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Head

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Standing

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Dog

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Mountain

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Stretched

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Seated

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Upward

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Fierce Warrior

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Virabhadra

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Tree

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