I will certainly try.

Before that, just a curiosity: You said your friend is a Yoga teacher. How did a plié squat enter the Yoga class ? If it is a Yoga exercise already, it must have a Sanskrit name. If it is not, a non-Yoga item is probably being taught as Yoga. The situation itself is a little vyaakhyaanaapEksha. Any clues?

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:06 PM, patrick mccartney <psdmccartney@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Nagaraj. I know that arrai mandi is not Sanskrit, and that it also doesn't 1:1 match the position or movement of the plié squat. Might you be able to offer a more appropriate Sanskrit term for this dance-like plié position? I've been looking in yogāsana encyclopedias and websites and not found anything even close, apart from mālāsana, which is nothing like a plié squat.

Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )