2025 Monthly Yoga Poses and Sutras
Theme: Master the Use of Props in Practice
Pose of the Year: Supta Virasana (Reclined Hero's Pose)
January
Focus: The Small Toe
Pose: Tadasana (Mountain Pose)
Sutra: 2.44 Self-study leads to knowledge of the soul.
February
Focus: The Big Toe
Pose: Parsvottanasana (Intense Side Stretch Pose)
Sutras: 1.2 - Yoga Citta Vrtti Nirodha & 1.12 – Through practice and detachment, these fluctuations can be stopped.
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March
Focus: Ball Mound and Heel of Foot
Poses: Ardha Chandrasana ( Half Moon Pose) and Malasana ( Garland Pose)
Sutra: I.4 - Sometimes the Seer focuses outwardly on the objects of consciousness.
April
Focus: Top of the Foot
Poses: Parighasana (Gate Latch Pose) & Triangmukaikapada Paschimottanasana (Single Leg Virasana)
Sutra: 2.42 Santosha - From contentment, unsurpassed happiness is attained
May
Focus: Inner Ankle
Pose: Prasarita Padottanasana (Widespread Intense Stretch)
Sutra: I.33 Start your practice by cultivating friendliness, compassion, joy and indifference to pleasure and pain. This makes you favorably disposed, serene and benevolent
June
Focus: Outer Ankle
Poses: Figure 4 at wall & Baddha Konasana (Bound Angle Pose)
Sutra: 2.46 – Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence & benevolence of spirit.
July
Focus: The Shin
Pose: Utkatasana (Seated Chair Pose), Virasana (Hero’s Pose) & TMP Paschimottanasana
Sutra: 2.54 Pratyahara – Cultivate inner sensitivity to bring awareness into its own form.
August
Focus: The Calf
Pose: Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog)
Sutra: 2.29 – The eight limbs of yoga are: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana & samadhi.
September
Focus: Sides of the Knee
Poses: Vrksasana (Tree Pose) & Sirsasana (Head Stand)
Sutra: 2.10 – Turn inward to stop the afflictions (klesas) at their source: See your own self in action and dry out the seeds before they germinate.
October
Focus: Back of the Knee
Pose: Paschimottanasana (Intense Stretch of the Back or East Side of the Body)
Sutra: 2.43 – Tapas (burning zeal) burns away impurities and kindles sparks of divinity.
November
Focus: The Hamstrings
Pose: Halasana (Plow Pose)
Sutra: 2.18 - Know your Gunas, the qualities of nature.
December
Focus: Quadriceps
Pose: Supta Virasana Reclined Hero’s Pose)
Sutra: II.16 Heyam Dukham Anagatam. The suffering yet to come can and should be avoided.