Pada | The foot or leg; also part of a book. | |
Padangustha | The big toe. | |
Padma | A lotus. | |
Parigha | A beam or a bar used for bolting or shutting a gate. | |
Parighasana | Lateral side stretch. | |
Paripurna Navasana | Boat pose. | |
Paripurna | Entire, complete. | |
Parivrtta | Turned around, revolved. | |
Parivrtta Trikonasana | Twisting
triangle. |
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Parsva | The side, flank; lateral. | |
Pasa | A fetter, trap, noose. | |
Paschima | West; the back side of the body. | |
Paschimottanasana | Seated forward fold. Intense stretch of the west side of the body. | |
Patanjali | The author of the yoga sutras. The propounder of Astanga yoga. He put it on paper, so the world could experience it. | |
Pida | Pain, suffering, pressure. | |
Prajna | Intelligence, wisdom. | |
Prana | Breath, respiration, life, vitality, wind, energy, strength. It also connotes the soul. | |
Pranayama | Rhythmic control of the breath. The fourth stage of yoga. | |
Prasarita | Spread out, stretched out. | |
Pratyahara | Withdrawal and emancipation of the mind from the domination of the senses and sensual objects. The fifth stage of yoga. | |
Purva | East, the front of the body. | |
Purvottana | The intense stretch of the East, front side of the body. | |
Purvottanasana | Pose of the intense stretch of the front side of the body. | |