Standing Series Flashcards
Warm Up Breathing Exercise Sanskrit
Pranayama
How many sets of pranayama are there? How many in each set?
2; 10
Half Moon Pose Sanskrit
Ardha Chandrasana
How long is Half Moon Pose (first set)?
60 Seconds
How long is Half Moon Pose (second set)?
30 Seconds
Half Moon Pose dialogue (right side): parts 1-4
- Start with your toes and heels together; arms down by your side.
- Inhale, bring your arms up over your head sideways.
- Touch your palms together and interlace your fingers, release your index fingers, cross your thumbs.
- Keep a nice tight grip throughout the entire posture; palms glued together all the way up to the wrists. Squeeze your arms against your ears until your arms are straight.
Half Moon Pose dialogue (right side): parts 5-8
- Stretch your whole body up towards the ceiling as if you are trying to touch the ceiling and bend your body right and left a few times to warm up and prepare for half moon pose.
- When you have stretched enough, stop in the middle.
- Arms and ears together, so there is no gap between your biceps, arms and ears.
- Straighten your arms and wrists.
Half Moon Pose dialogue (right side): parts 9-11
- Hips forward, upper body back a couple of inches, from start to finish your body weight should be on your heels.
- Concentrate on one point on your forehead in the mirror. Don’t even blink your eyes. Take a deep breath, full lungs and stretch up one more time, hold your breath as you push your hips to the left and bring your body down to the right in one straight line without bending your elbows or your knees.
- Continuously push your hips to the left as hard as possible, beyond your ankle bone (beyond your flexibility) until you feel a tremendous stretching sensation on the entire left side of your body. You are stretching all over, from inside out, from bones to your skin, fingertips to your toes.
Half Moon Pose dialogue (right side): parts 12-15
- Arms and head back, chin up.
- Make sure your two hips are in one line and your shoulders are in one line.
- Hold the pose with your eyes open and breathe normally.
- Come down and push and push a little more at the end…come up and stop in the middle.
Half Moon Pose dialogue (left side): parts 1-4
- Take a deep breath and bend your body to the left, push your hips to the right.
- Create a half moon shape.
- Go down to your edge: you should feel the stretching sensation over the right side of your body.
- Look at yourself in the mirror, chin up.
Half Moon Pose dialogue (left side): parts 5-8
- Arms and head back, open up your chest and ribcage like a flower blooming.
- Arms touching your ears
- Come down and push
- Change
How long is back-bending pose?
20 Seconds
Back-bending Pose dialogue: parts 1-4
- Take a deep breath, full lungs, straighten your arms and life your upper body up towards the ceiling.
- Look up to the ceiling and bring your head back gently.
- Immediately bring your arms back with your ears.
- Maximum body weight in your heels.
Back-bending Pose dialogue: parts 5-11
- Push your stomach, legs and hips towards the mirror and feel your total spine back-bending.
- Bend your lower back, middle back and upper back; not just your lower back.
- Lift your chest up and arch your upper back as you continuously try to go deeper into your backbend.
- Look at the back wall; try to touch the back wall.
- Inhale as you come up. Stop in the middle.
Hands to Feet Pose Sanskrit
Pada Hastasana
How long is Hands to Feet Pose?
30 Seconds
Hands to Feet Pose dialogue: parts 1-4
- Bend your knees and bend forward from your hips. Bring your body down with a flat back.
- Touch the floor in front of you. Bend your right knee and left knee a few times to warm up your lower back.
- Squat down to release your lower back, place your heels down and lay your upper body on your legs, grab your heels from behind, pinky fingers touching side by side.
- Wrap your elbows behind your calf muscles.
Hands to Feet Pose dialogue: parts 5-8
- Pull up on your heels and stretch your body down from the lower spine towards the floor.
- Keep your stomach on your thighs, your chest to your knees and eventually your face on your legs below your knees.
- Make sure there’s no gap between your body and your legs. Slowly lift your hips up towards the ceiling as you press your knees back to try to straighten your legs.
- Try to create tremendous stretching feeling all over your legs, you are stretching 360 degrees from coccyx to toes, coccyx to neck with your smiling face.
Hands to Feet Pose dialogue: parts 9-14
- Keep your body weight forward towards your toes not your heels.
- Continuously keep pulling your body down, lock your knees, roll forward, lock your knees, last chance to lock your knees.
- If your legs are straight, contract your thighs more and try to touch your head to your toes.
- Inhale. Come up with your arms and head together. Flat back.
- Stop in the middle and bring your arms down by your side.
- Stay still and take at least one full breath (six seconds in through your nose and six seconds out).
Awkward Pose Sanskrit
Utkatasana
How long are parts one and two of Awkward Pose?
20-25 Seconds
How long is part three of Awkward Pose?
10-15 seconds
Awkward Pose dialogue, part one: parts 1-4
- Step to the right with your right foot, hip-width distance apart. Outside of your feet parallel to each other.
- Don’t change your feet throughout the entire posture.
- Bring your arms up parallel to the floor. Keep your fingers together. Straighten your arms. Contract your tricep muscles.
- Reach your arms forward towards the mirror as if you are trying to touch the mirror.
Awkward Pose dialogue, part one: parts 5-8
- Take a deep breath.
- Exhale, suck your stomach in, hold it in.
- Sit back and down as if you were sitting in a chair behind you.
- Maintain a straight spine. One hundred percent body weight in your heels. Keep an equal distance between your toes, heels and knees.
Awkward Pose dialogue, part one: parts 9-13
- Lift your chest up and bring your upper body back, away from your thighs.
- Shoulders down. Keep your neck relaxed. Suck your stomach in.
- Body weight in the heels. It might feel as though you’re falling down backward.
- Lean back, chest up, chin up.
- Inhale and come up.
Awkward Pose dialogue, part two: parts 1-4
- Keep your arms where they are.
- Stand up on the balls of your feet. Keep your heels up as high as possible.
- Tremendous concentration, don’t even blink your eyes or you might lose your balance.
- Focus one point in the mirror. Stretch your spine, chest, head, whole upper body up towards the ceiling. Imagine you are continuously being pulled up towards the ceiling.
Awkward Pose dialogue, part two: parts 5-11
- From start to finish, throughout the posture you should feel like your hips and head are touching the wall as if it was behind you.
- Sit down halfway until your hips touch the chair.
- Knees up, chest up, spine straight.
- Come up higher on your toes. Knees UP towards the ceiling.
- Upper body back.
- Your hips should not go below your knees. You are sitting in the chair.
- Inhale, come up. Heels down. Spine straight.
Awkward Pose dialogue, part three: parts 1-4
- Keep your arms where they are.
- Come up a little bit on your toes. Bring your knees together.
- Exhale, suck your stomach in, spine straight.
- Sit down as slow as possible, at least 10 counts. All the way down, as if you are sliding down the wall.
Awkward Pose dialogue, part three: parts 5-9
- Continuously stretch your spine up towards the ceiling and sit down until there is a half inch gap between your hips and heels.
- Keep your knees together and forward towards the mirror.
- Thighs parallel to the floor, arms parallel to the thighs, spine perfectly straight. Ninety-degree angles at your hips and shoulders. From the side, your body looks like you are holding a box in your lap.
- Take a deep breath, knees together, spine straight, slowly come up.
- Heels down, feet together, arms by your side and relax. Stand still.
Eagle Pose Sanskrit
Garudasana
How long is Eagle Pose?
20 seconds
Eagle Pose dialogue: parts 1-4
- Inhale, bring your arms up over your head sideways.
- On your exhale, bring your right arm underneath your left arm.
- Cross at your elbows and then again at your wrists.
- Turn your thumbs toward your face and bring the palms flat together, thumbs crossed with your right hand on the inside.
Eagle Pose dialogue: parts 5-8
- Pull your elbows down towards your belly button and your fingertips eventually below your nose. You should see your face in the mirror. Square your shoulders.
- Press your elbows against your chest.
- Bend your knees and sit back as if you were sitting on a chair as your soften your hips.
- Lift your right leg as high as possible, cross it over your left thigh.
Eagle Pose dialogue: parts 9-12
- Point your right foot and wrapt it underneath your left calf muscle.
- Eventually you will see all five toes in the mirror; no gap between the ankle and calf muscle.
- If your hips are facing the corner, bring your knees to the right and the upper body to the left. Line your joints down the center line of your body.
- Bring your shoulders and hips even in height and parallel to the front mirror.
Eagle Pose dialogue: parts 13-17
- Sit down so your hips are no lower than three inches above your knees and squeeze to create compression in all the major joints of your body.
- Feel all the joints opening together at once: ankles, knees, elbows, shoulders, wrists and especially your hips.
- Suck your stomach in. Try to sit down a little deeper, bring your elbows down more and upper body back at the end.
- Change. Release your knees and elbows, arms above your head and bring your arms down by your side.
- Other side
Standing Head to Knee Pose Sanskrit
Dandayamana Janusirasana