welcome to panyoga!
What's PanYoga, you ask? Basically, PanYoga fuses a rich variety of practices from all forms of movement play into an elegant synthesis. The goal is to keep movement fresh, fun, invigorating... and inspired! Please enjoy our site, and may you always move in joy and flow!
For starters, here's the etymology of our name and mark:
pan
- prefix designating "all encompassing" [from Greek πᾶν: "all," "of everything," "involving all members" of a group] examples: pantheon (all gods), pangea (all continents), panorama (all views), panyoga (all branches)
- ancient Greek god of woodland, wild, fertility and folk music; progeny of Dionysus (god of ritual ecstasy) & Iris (goddess of the rainbow).
yoga
- the science of dealing with the search for one's soul
- the common name for Hatha Yoga, a series of defined physical postures (asanas) linked through movement (vinyasa); hatha yoga is but one component of a broader philosophy as articulated in the original Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, c. 200 BC.
- derived from the Sanskrit root yuj, meaning "to control", "to yoke" or "to unite"... classically, the bringing together of opposites. Literal translations include "joining", "uniting", "union", "conjunction", and "means," as in "means to accomplish...______"
the emerald monarch™
The butterfly is a universal symbol of radical transformation into a creature of exquisite beauty and divine grace, from earthbound worm to airborne flyer. Emerald green is the color traditionally used to represent the heart chakra, which lies at the energetic midpoint of the kundalini pathway. PanYoga embraces the practice of heart-forward yoga. Bringing the name full circle, the indiginous Guaraní people's name for the butterfly (in Brazil, Peru and Africa) is pan-ambi.
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