Tag: upward facing dog
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‘Vinyasa’: Life’s Moving Meditation
Technically, a ‘vinyasa’ can be any sequence performed with the breath; it isn’t restricted to the series of ‘chatturanga – upward facing dog – downward facing dog’, but this is indeed how we’ve lazily referred to these movements in the West for the past few decades. This is especially common ever since the whole Power…
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Practice: Urdvha Mukha Svanasana / Upward Facing Dog
Urdvha = Upward Mukha = Face Svana = Dog Asana = Posture Urdvha Mukha Svanasana or Upward Facing Dog is one of the postures we often come across in a Vinyasa flow style class, used within what is commonly referred to as a Vinyasa. (Moving from plank to chatturanga, through to…