Twisting dragon
Dogs, cats, cows, lizards: yoga has long been associated with the animal world. The animal kingdom has, in fact, inspired so many of the simple poses that we now do every single day on our yoga mats. But dinosaurs and dragons? Now there’s another one to add to the list: the Twisting Dragon. This time the pose has been inspired by the hadrosaur, a kind of bulky, walking prehistoric lizard, in Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. It’s a powerful yin-like pose, l ike Warrior, designed to g et the inner fir es burning – l ike a dr agon br eathing fir e, appar ently. The Toronto Star showed a picture of local yoga instructor, YuMee Chung, performing the pose right in front of the dinosaur skeleton. On this occasion, we’ve found something that’s even older than the ancient discipline of yoga itself.