Bhujangasana
One of the things I love about my current yoga teacher is that she's teaching us the Sanskrit words for the poses (asanas). My former yoga teacher never used Sanskrit: she'd always just refer to the cobra pose or bow pose or fish pose or whatever. I didn't realize what I was missing.
The Sanskrit names are so gorgeous. For instance: bhujangasana (boo-jang-GAHS-anna). Isn't that the most lovely thing you've ever heard? Bhujangasana. (It helps that my yoga teacher is also a singer, so every word that comes out of her mouth has a melodic quality to it.)
I take yoga with two of my best friends from work. Bhujangasana has become our code word for "relax, everything's gonna be fine." If Bek is stressed out about a class or a meeting or her dad's health, I stick my head into her office and say, slowly and rhythmically, "bhu-jang-a-sana." She does the same for me.
The word itself--the sound of it--is calmness for us. I just love that.
If you take yoga (Luckybuzz?), what's your favorite word?
posted by Deb @ 9:32 PM
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Hi, I'm twelve. I hear bhujangasana and immediately giggle and start thinking of dirty definitions.
Seriously though, it really is a cool word, and I like how you've made it code.
I love the code too.
I've been doing yoga to DVDs that use the english words...but I remember loving the Sanskrit when I did yoga before. Can't remember specifics right now--but I think there's a reason it's the "language of the gods". :)
Sheepish: you crack me up.
Lucky: I've been thinking about getting a yoga DVD. Any recommendations?
I have two DVDs that I really like. The one I started back up with was "Yoga for Weight Loss"--I like it because it's got 4 "instructors" at varying levels of flexibility that you can follow (diff. camera angles). I also really like the Shiva Rea Yoga Shakti--there are 4 different routines, and you can program it to include the poses you like...it's called the "Yoga matrix." :)
But I might go do yoga with real live humans someday...
Thanks, Luckybuzz!
This is why I've become a yoga snob - once you go Sanskrit, it sounds silly without it. My favorite is mula bandha...especially because you're always being told to "find" or "hold" it.
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