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hey everyone welcome to yoga with

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Adriene I'm Adriene today we're tackling

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the question what is a vinyasa this

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comes up a lot and it's a totally

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awesome question because it's confusing

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we go to public classes and the teachers

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like and vinyasa vinyasa

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mufasa so first things first we'll break

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this down very quickly for you first

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things first is like most sanskrit terms

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the word vinyasa has many meanings the

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first thing we'll do is break down the

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word the Sanskrit word vinyasa means to

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to place the the first part means to

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place Yassa

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in a special way so forget about that

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chaturanga to updog for a second just

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think about that that the Sanskrit term

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itself means to place in a special way

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now I'm not trying to get on my Sanskrit

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high horse of our yogic high horse here

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but I feel like that's really cool and

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really important especially as a

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beginner but even for anyone who might

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be listening to this wanting to kind of

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deepen your practice and embrace the

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yogic philosophy in your asana practice

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and hopefully in your everyday life so

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to place in a special way for me that

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brings up the idea of you know intention

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to move with intention so honestly there

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are many definitions to the word vinyasa

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and for this vinyasa but to place in a

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special way I feel like my favorite

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definition is definitely like how do you

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move with intention to move with

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intention so that brings me to another

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way of interpreting this word vinyasa

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and that is that is a systematic

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approach to moving from one point to the

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next with the breath so very important

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with the breath moving from point A to

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point B with the breath so we have this

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idea of moving with intention and now we

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have this understanding or this idea of

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moving from one pose to the next or just

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moving from point A to point B with the

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breath so it's breath and intention now

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to like the park you know to the

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confusing question but what you know I

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look at a yoga schedule and I see

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there's a vinyasa

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class so linking body movement with the

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breath has become you know this very

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popular way to get the heart rate going

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to flow in and out of the postures so

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using my hands a lot so we also will

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refer to this word as you know flow a

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flow class the vinyasa class so you know

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what to expect when you show up to that

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class

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to link breath and body movement

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probably moves it a semi Swift pace if

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you're in the West and then the final

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kind of practical thing that you might

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be wondering well what about when I'm in

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that vinyasa class and the teacher says

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and now take your vinyasa or rest you

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know and that is looking at the word in

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a whole nother way but still with the

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same principles of moving with intention

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linking body movement with breath and

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that is that little sequence between our

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downward-facing dogs so that moment

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between Auto MOCA and Auto mukha usually

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and so typically that'll be lowering

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down to the belly opening your heart and

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Kol removing with the breath and then

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exhaling back to down dog or again

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really common in the West and in these

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kind of more fast-paced classes we will

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and we and we do them here on the

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channel as well we will take that

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opportunity that vinyasa as a chaturanga

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to upward facing dog and then a return

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to your downward facing dog so I hope

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I'm not confusing you there are lots of

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meanings to the word vinyasa there are

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also these practical applications the

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name of the class

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you know the noun the the moment between

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the downward facing dog but if we really

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go back to the root of the Sanskrit word

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where we're talking about moving with

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intention and using the breath as a tool

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to do just that so hopefully it's helped

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you figure out the word vinyasa it

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doesn't always have to be that fancy

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chaturanga to updog to perform a vinyasa

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if you're in a class and that moment

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comes along and you're not prepared to

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do that or you're working on shoulder

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stuff or you're just growing that

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chaturanga as long as you're moving with

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your breath you're doing it right

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doing it awesome so anyway that's all

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for today keep the questions coming we

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love to respond to the requests because

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it means that we're having a real

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conversation we're not just yoga robots

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wore this shirt especially for you is my

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first time to wear it in a long time I

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made this when I was in fifth grade for

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a track-and-field day

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that might be an overshare but I think

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it's pretty cool okay anyway take care

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everyone we'll see you next time free

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yoga videos every Wednesday

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join the conversation namaste that was

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really cheesy