Week 3

Question 1

How is yoga defined in sutra 1.2 of the Yoga Sutras?

Answer 1

Yoga is practicing selective awareness.

Question 2

What is the first Yama (the observance that encompasses all of the rest of the Yamas and Niyamas), and what does it mean to you?

Answer 2

Ahimsa (Do no harm, non-violence)

Question 3

What niyama is about cultivating discipline?

Answer 3

Tapas

Question 4

What niyama is about practicing self study?

Answer 4

Svadhyaya

Question 5

What is a major difference between Crescent and Warrior 1?

Answer 5

Crescent - back log - heel up

Warrior 1 - heel pivoted down hip externally rotated

Question 6

What is a major difference between Virabhadrasana 1 and Virabhadrasana 2?

Answer 6

Warrior 1 - forward direction of hips and torso

Warrior 2 - side direction of hips and torso

Question 7

Based on continuity of shape and hip orientation, which pose does not belong in this group?
Warrior 2
Side Angle Pose
Warrior 1
Peaceful Warrior

Answer 7

Warrior 1

Question 8

A student squats down into Malaysians. Their heels are hovering off the ground and/or they find the pose to be uncomfortable on the ankles or knees. What are some of the appropriate modifications for that individual?

Answer 8

Sit on a block(s) and allow the feet to widen

Use a blanket or rolled up yoga mat for added height under their heels

Sit with their back up against a wall

Question 9

What is one reason someone may not be able to touch their heels to the ground in adho mukha svanasana?

Answer 9

Calves or hamstrings - muscular tension/bone compression

Question 10

What is the similarity between bone compression and muscular tension?

Answer 10

Both limit range of motion

Question 11

What is the difference between bone compression and muscular tension?

Answer 11

Tension is due to stretching of muscle or connective tissue but compression is determined by the shape of our bones.

Question 12

Which word indicates that something is located to the side or away from midline?

Answer 12

Lateral

Question 13

True or False: The patella is located on the posterior and distal end of the femur.

Answer 13

False

Question 14

In the Upanishads, a human being is described as having five _______ that interpenetrate each other, encasing the ________ like layers of an onion.

Answer 14

Kosha, atman (soul)

Question 15

In what kosha do we use and experience the physical body?

Answer 15

Annamaya

Question 16

In what kosha do we access our witness or non-judgemental observer?

Answer 16

Vijnanmaya

Question 17

What kosha is closest to us being Baal to experience our soul, or true nature?

Answer 17

Anandamaya

Question 18

The vowel A in both short and long forms (a and ā) is chanted using which mouth position?

Answer 18

Guttural

Question 19

In speaking Sanskrit, what is the mouth position where the tongue draws to the roof of the mouth?

Answer 19

Cerebral

Question 20

English and Sanskrit are both __________ languages.

Answer 20

Indo-European

Question 21

What doe the word Sanskrit mean?

Answer 21

To make perfect, complete

Polished, perfected

Question 22

Sanskrit is considered an __________ language because it contains the nature and resonance of the thing itself.

Answer 22

Intrinsic

Question 23

Name one archetype that students can project onto their teacher from Donna Farhi’s ethics book.

Answer 23

Priest, parent, healer, lover