SoMuchKula.com | Frequently Asked Questions about the Barbados Anusara Kula

Almost everything you ever wanted to know about Anusara Yoga but were too busy to Google...

  1. Query: Just what is Anusara, anyway?

    Response: Anusara is a powerful and dynamic Yoga system that challenges us to live fully in our heart! Founded by John Friend, it is the fastest growing Yoga system in the world.

  2. Query: What do the words to the invocation mean?

    Response: The Anusara invocation in Sanskrit is "Om Namah Shivaya Gurave Sacchidananda Murtaye Nisprapancaya Shantaya Niralambaya Tejase". This means "I offer myself to the true teacher within who assumes the form of reality, consciousness and bliss, who is never absent and is always full of peace, independent in existence, he is the vital essence of illumination."

  3. Query: How does Anusara compare to other Yoga styles?

    Response: All Yoga styles offer a variation of the underlying principle, which is that we all want to experience bliss in an embodied state. Anusara does this with a heart oriented Tantric philosophy, universal principles of alignment and emphasis on community.

  4. Query: What is this So Much Kula business?

    Response: So Much Kula is a gateway to the diversity of Anusara Yoga in the Caribbean, associated with The Sanctuary practice, started by Christy Punnett Eames.

  5. Query: What does "Cheese on Bread" mean?

    Response: Etymologically, a Barbadian abstraction of the root term underpinning such colloquiallisms as "Gee Whillikers!" and "Geez Louise", but with a decidedly plaintive inclination (often intonated subvocally in response to the tenth Triangle Pose in a row).