| Pada | The foot or leg; also part of a book. | |
| Padangustha |  |
The big toe. |
| Padma | |
A lotus. |
| Parigha | A beam or a bar used for bolting or shutting a gate. | |
| Parighasana | Lateral side stretch. | |
| Paripurna Navasana | |
Boat pose. |
| Paripurna | Entire, complete. | |
| Parivrtta | Turned around, revolved. | |
| Parivrtta Trikonasana | Twisting
triangle. |
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| Parsva | |
The side, flank; lateral. |
| Pasa | A fetter, trap, noose. | |
| Paschima | West; the back side of the body. | |
| Paschimottanasana | |
Seated forward fold. Intense stretch of the west side of the body. |
| Patanjali | The author of the yoga sutras. The propounder of Astanga yoga. He put it on paper, so the world could experience it. | |
| Pida | Pain, suffering, pressure. | |
| Prajna | Intelligence, wisdom. | |
| Prana | Breath, respiration, life, vitality, wind, energy, strength. It also connotes the soul. | |
| Pranayama | Rhythmic control of the breath. The fourth stage of yoga. | |
| Prasarita | Spread out, stretched out. | |
| Pratyahara | Withdrawal and emancipation of the mind from the domination of the senses and sensual objects. The fifth stage of yoga. | |
| Purva | East, the front of the body. | |
| Purvottana | The intense stretch of the East, front side of the body. | |
| Purvottanasana | |
Pose of the intense stretch of the front side of the body. |
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