Quizkrieg: Stretched and Unstressed

Recently the world celebrated the International Day of Yoga. Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual practice now popular across all sections. Let’s glimpse into some fascinating aspects of yoga and its practice.

1. It is a form of yoga popularised by a person in the 1970s in California. The patented practice involves repeating the same 26 poses in set cycles over a 90-minute class. Most rooms are heated, often up to a sweltering 41 degrees Celsius and kept at high humidity and is called as ‘Hot Yoga’. How do we better know it?

2. This yoga works on the natural symbiotic relationship that already exist between you and your dog. If there’s stress and tension in you, your dog may feel it and absorb the tension. So in short, it is the practice of yoga with pet dogs. Identify.

3. Lena Fokina from Russia caused a massive controversy and public uproar when a video of her surfaced on YouTube showing something annoying and outraging which she claims as a new type of yoga. What was it? 

4. He was an American philosopher, historian and a leading transcendentalist. His philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He found out about yoga while visiting Ralph Waldo Emerson in his library and became a great propounder of yoga. Identify.

5. This is a modern hybrid style of yoga that was created and branded by artist David Life and musician Sharon Gannon in 1984. It is a vigorous style of yoga that takes its basic moves from Hatha yoga. It has notably become the most popular among celebrities across the world. Identify. 

Answers: 
1. Bikram yoga (After Bikram Choudhury)
2. Doga 
3. Baby yoga (Swinging and tossing a two-week-old baby)
4. Henry David Thoreau
5. Jivamukti yoga