Geometry in Yoga

Have you heard during a Yoga class phrases like  "in a straight line" or "at 45 / 90 degrees to ..." or parallel to the ground"

Knowing your Geometry is a lesson for life.

Fun with numbers - Ten

When you celebrate 10th birthday...its double digit.

Its the first 2 digit number

Decagon : 10 sided shape.

Decade : 10 years

10 cm make a Decimetre......

10 on 10 is what many aspire for

Fun with numbers - Nine

Here it goes for nine

9 Planets

Nine Eleven is the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center,New York, USA.

Nine months is the average number of months per school year that most primary and secondary students are required to attend.

A human pregnancy ordinarily lasts for nine months.

On cloud nine means happy, euphoric or `high'. The phrase came into use in the 1950s from a term used by the US Weather Bureau. For the meteorologists Cloud Nine is cumulo-nimbus cloud at a height of 10 km, which is high even by the standard of clouds.

Fun with numbers - Eight

This one is interesting

Octagon : Shape with 8 sides.

Octave : set of 8 musical notes

Spiders have 8 legs

The octopus have 8 arms, commonly referred to as tentacles.

A byte is 8 bits.

There are 8 fluid ounces in a cup, 8 pints in a gallon and 8 tablespoonfuls in a gill.

In Chinese culture, the number 8 is regarded as a lucky number because it sounds very similar to the word meaning to generate wealth.

A figure 8 knot is frequently used by climbers.

8 is the atomic number (also known as the proton number) of oxygen.

Pizzas are usually cut into 8 slices.

There are 8 teeth in each quadrant in human adult dentition, and the 8th tooth is called wisdom tooth.

Fun with numbers - Seven

This ones amazing

7 colours in the rainbow - VIBGYOR

The musical notes are 7 - C,D,E,F,G,A & B

7 days in a week

A seven sided shape is a Septagon

The 7 Star constellation : The Big Dipper, also known as the Plough or the Saptarishi

Snow White & Seven Dwarfs

We have 7 chakras / energy centres & and 7 levels of existence - breath, body, intellect, mind, memory, ego & self

Fun with numbers - Six

For Six :

Hexagon has 6 sides

The phrase  I have a 6th sense...

6th grade is the usual divide to middle school

Fun with Numbers - Five

Number 5 has a special significance in our lives....read on

Pentagon - 5 sides

The 5 elements - Air, Water,Fire, Earth, Ether

Enid Blyton's "Famous Five"

The 5 Pandavas in Mahabharat

The 5 fingers on our hand ! (Closed and makes a fist!?) 

The Olympic Rings

For young kids, 5 is half way to a double digit!

Think 5 senses - Gyan Indrian -Sense organs - eyes, ears, nose, skin & tongue

5 karam Indrian - Action Organs - hands, feet, mouth, reproductory & excretory organs

Think about it and add your inputs as comments 

Fun with numbers - Four

And now see how we have 4 in our lives

Most rooms are rectangles

4 directions North, South, East & West

"Be4" is a word we hear often!

4got is a usual excuse

Please 4give me,  we say

Give it a thought.....

Fun with numbers - Three

Here are some fun facts about THREE in our lives....

Triangle is the shape with least sides 3

To win a game of Knots and Crosses you need 3 in a row!

We have Past, Present & Future ( also as tenses in language)

We have 3 Gunas - Tamo Gun, Rajo Gun & Sato Gun

Gandhiji had 3 monkeys that signified - see no evil, hear no evil & speak no evil

There are 3 primary colours

We have the Trinity - Brahma, Vishnu & Mahesh!!!!

We all have heard of 3D in shapes & movies

The famous phrase : I , Me and Myself

Life exists on Land, Water & Air - so for all life forms (The 3 worlds - Patal, Bhoomi & Aakash)

3 armed forces : Army, Air Force & Navy

The 3 Little Pigs...

Goldilocks & 3 bears....

And we hear of 3 shifts a day & 3 meals a day

Also you, we & us!!!!

Three musketeers remember!!!!

Think about it...and add with your comments 

Fun with numbers - Two

Here are some fun facts about Two in our lives....

Pairs of opposites 

Pairs of complementaries and supplementary and alternate angles....

Eyes, Ears, Nostrils, hands...get the point....

Teacher & Student : one makes the other

Man & Woman , Mother & Child....

Two sides of a coin or an argument

Two is the first even number, a factor to all even numbers

You need 2 points to make a line segment 

And 2 line segments to make an angle

This was my 2 cents on the topic.....Think about it...and add with your comments 

Fun with numbers - One

Here are some fun facts about ONE in our lives....

One head, mouth, heart, liver, brain....a lot of important parts/organs of the body are solo.

Solo performances of musicians and singers are well known.

One Sun, Earth has one Moon...

We all have one Mom & Dad

One - soul / atma / paramatma / holy ghost and so on

One Krishna and so many Gopi's

One teacher in a class full of kids

One life and so much to do


Think about it...and add with your comments