Padahastasana in Sanskrit

Namaste. Thank you Julia for being here with me. Today we are going to look at another asana, the padhasthasana or the hand under foot pose. It's useful or it's helpful to have the asanas pronounced correctly because just as the body moves the energy in a particular way when you do an asana, the breath moves, when you do the pranayama, it moves the breath in a particular way and then when you say it correctly, the sounds move your energy in a different way. So when you combine the three of them, then you get a great alignment in your whole being. So let's look at the padhasthasana. I will write it out in transliteration form followed by the devanagari. So see if you can say this as many times with me. The more you say it, the better it is. We'll break the sound up into padha plus hasta plus asana. It's formed of these three words padha meaning the foot, hasta the hand and asana pose or posture. In devanagari, this would look like this There you are, padha, hasta, asana. Now let's put it all together, padha, hasta, sa, na. I will write the transliterated form below it again. Padha, hasta, sa, na. There you are. Keep saying it. Just try and repeat these sounds as often as you can. Then you will feel it. Your system will start getting used to these sounds. The English equivalent is hand under foot pose. Now I will request Julia to demonstrate this for me and for us and just keep trying to say this as much as you can. So padha, hasta, sa, na. Padha being the foot, hasta being the hand, goes under and you have the padha, hasta, sa, na. Thank you Julia. You can come up now. Thank you. Thank you.