Yoga & Wellness

1. དེ་རིང་ཡོ་ག་སློབ་ཚན་ཡོད་དམ།

   De-ring yo-ga lop-tsen yod-dam?

   Is there a yoga class today?

   Usage

   Used at yoga studios or retreat centers

   Grammar Note

   "yod-dam" is the interrogative form of "to exist/have"

2. ཞོགས་པའི་སློབ་ཚན་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཙམ་ལ་འགོ་བརྩམས།

   Zhog-pé lop-tsen chu-tsod ga-tsam la go-tsom?

   What time does the morning session start?

   Usage

   Used to check the start time of yoga or meditation sessions

   Grammar Note

   "chu-tsod ga-tsam la" asks "at what time"

3. སློབ་ཚན་འདི་ལས་ཐོག་མ་བ་ལ་རུང་གི་རེད་དམ།

   Lop-tsen di las-tog-ma-ba la rung-gi-red-dam?

   Is this class suitable for beginners?

   Usage

   Ask before joining a yoga or meditation class

   Grammar Note

   "rung-gi-red" expresses suitability or appropriateness

4. ང་གཅིག་པུའི་སློབ་ཚན་གཅིག་ཉར་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

   Nga chig-pu'i slob-tshan chig nyar-thub-kyi-red-dam?

   Can I book a private session?

   Usage

   Used when requesting one-on-one instruction

   Grammar Note

   "thub-kyi-red-dam" is a polite question about possibility

5. ཡོ་ག་གདན་གཡར་ཐུབ་ས་གང་རེད།

   Yo-ga den gyar-thub-sa gang-red?

   Where can I rent a yoga mat?

   Usage

   Ask about mat rental at a studio or facility

   Grammar Note

   "gyar-thub-sa" means "a place where one can rent/borrow"

6. ཡོ་ག་རིགས་ག་འདྲ་ཞིག་རེད།

   Yo-ga rig ga-dra zhig red?

   What style of yoga is this?

   Usage

   Ask about the yoga style (Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, etc.)

   Grammar Note

   "ga-dra zhig" asks "what kind of"

7. ང་ལ་པུས་མོའི་རྨས་སོར་ཡོད། ལག་ལེན་གཞན་ཐབས་ཡོད་དམ།

   Nga-la pu-mö me-sor yod. Lag-len zhen-thab yod-dam?

   I have a knee injury. Do you have modifications?

   Usage

   Inform the instructor of an injury and request modified poses

   Grammar Note

   Two-sentence structure: state the condition, then ask a question

8. བསམ་གཏན་སློབ་ཚན་ཡོད་དམ།

   Sam-ten lop-tsen yod-dam?

   Is there a meditation session available?

   Usage

   Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice is popular with travelers

   Grammar Note

   "sam-ten" refers to Buddhist meditative absorption (dhyana)

9. སློབ་ཚན་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཙམ་རིང་རེད།

   Lop-tsen chu-tsod ga-tsam ring-red?

   How long is the class?

   Usage

   Ask how long the session lasts

   Grammar Note

   "chu-tsod ga-tsam ring" asks the duration in hours

10. དམིགས་བསལ་སྡེ་ཚན་ཉར་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

    Mik-sel de-tsen nyar-thub-kyi-red-dam?

    Can I book a retreat package?

    Usage

    Used when booking a wellness retreat package

    Grammar Note

    "nyar-thub-kyi-red-dam" politely asks if booking is possible

11. སྔོན་འགོད་མེད་པར་ཞུགས་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

    Ngön-gö med-par zhuk-thub-kyi-red-dam?

    Can I drop in without a reservation?

    Usage

    Ask if walk-in attendance is allowed without prior booking

    Grammar Note

    "med-par" is an adverbial phrase meaning "without"

12. རླངས་ཁང་ཡོད་དམ།

    Lang-khang yod-dam?

    Is there a sauna or steam room?

    Usage

    Check what amenities are available at a wellness facility

    Grammar Note

    "lang-khang" means "steam room" and covers steam rooms and saunas

13. སྒྲ་དང་དབུགས་ཀྱི་སློབ་ཚན་ཡོད་དམ།

    Dra dang buk kyi lop-tsen yod-dam?

    Do you offer sound healing or breathwork sessions?

    Usage

    Tibetan singing bowl healing is renowned; ask about these sessions

    Grammar Note

    Tibetan singing bowls (tingsha) are traditional meditation instruments

14. སློབ་དཔོན་ཁྱེད་ལགས་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ། ཤིན་ཏུ་ཡག་པོ་རེད།

    Lop-pön khe-lak-la ka-drin-che. Shin-tu yak-po re

    Thank you, teacher — that was wonderful.

    Usage

    Express gratitude to the instructor after the class ends

    Grammar Note

    "ka-drin-che" is a formal thank-you that carries Buddhist concepts of gratitude

15. སློབ་ཚན་འདིར་མི་ག་ཙམ་ཡོད།

    Lop-tsen dir mi ga-tsam yod?

    How many people are in the class?

    Usage

    Check the class size before joining

    Grammar Note

    "ga-tsam" is a question word asking about quantity

16. གྱོན་ཆས་བརྗེ་ཁང་ཡོད་དམ།

    Gyön-che je-khang yod-dam?

    Is there a changing room?

    Usage

    Ask about changing room facilities at the studio

    Grammar Note

    "khang" means "room/house" and is used in many facility names

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