Before you start teaching or practicing yoga you need to become comfortable with some common words used in yoga:
Asanas: different postures or positions (i.e. tadasana: tad = mountain; asana = pose)
Adho Mukha Svanasana: downward facing dog pose
Baddhakonasana: cobbler pose
Dandasana:staff pose
Gomukhasana: head-of -cow pose
Marcicyasana: simple twist catching the arms behind
Savasana:corpse pose
Supta: lying down or reclining
Supta Baddhakonasana: lying down in baddhakonasana
Sutras: basic beliefs or tenents (yoga consists of eight sutras)
Tadasana: mountain pose
Urdhva Prasarita Padasana: legs stretched to 90 degrees
Uttanasana: forward extension
Utthita: extended
Utthita Parsvakonasana: extended lateral angle pose
Utthita Trikonasana: extended triangle pose
Vrksasana: tree pose
Virabhadrasana II: warrior pose II
Virasana: hero pose