Week 1

Question 1

HYI values yoga as a ________ learning journey.

Answer 1

Creative

Question 2

When trying to create congruency between your inner experience and outer persona, what are 2 key questions to ask?

Answer 2

How do I feel?

What do I need?

Question 3

When you are spinning from stress, what is a self commitment to remember?

Answer 3

To honor a “healthy yes” or “healthy no”

Question 4

Give an example of a healthy no:

Answer 4

Saying no to drinking alcohol with fellow veterans.

Question 5

We can start to spin from stress with frustration, worry, and overwhelm. Which guardian shows up when we feel self shame, inner blame, and a feeling of not being good enough?

Answer 5

Self implosion

Question 6

What does the Sanskrit word yoga mean?

Answer 6

Union

Question 7

What is your understanding of the meaning of Dharma?

Answer 7

Duty, mission, purpose

Question 8

What is your understanding of the meaning of Moksha?

Answer 8

Bliss, liberation

Question 9

What is the part of the creative learning cycle that you relax and ride the wave?

Answer 9

Fertile Void

Question 10

If a student needs to watch you during a yoga class in order to understand your instructions, what is their primary learning style?

Answer 10

Visual

Question 11

According to HYI, what pose can you find in all other poses?

Answer 11

Tadasana

Question 12

What is one verbal cue that a teach can offer students in tadasana?

Answer 12

Lengthen the spine, rooting down through the feet, spread the toes well, legs are femur width apart

Question 13

Name a prop that you can offer your students to use in uttanasana (standing forward fold) and how to use the prop

Answer 13

Blocks, use them under the hands, in between the thighs.