Yoga & Wellness

1. ད་རིང་ཡོ་གར་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Da-ring yo-gar byong-drar yoe-pa in-na

   Is there a yoga class today?

   Usage

   Used to check if a yoga class is available today

   Grammar Note

   "Yoe-pa in-na" asks about existence "is there/are there?"

2. ཞོགས་པའི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཚད་ལུ་འགོ་བཙུགསཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Zhog-pai byong-drar chu-tso ga-tse lu go-tsugpa in-na

   What time does the morning session start?

   Usage

   Used to check the start time of morning wellness sessions

   Grammar Note

   Sentence-final "in-na" marks a question; "chu-tshoe ga-tshe lu" means "at what time"

3. སྦྱོང་བརྡར་འདི་གསར་ཤར་ལུ་མཐུན་ཨིན་ན།

   Byong-drar di sar-shar lu thun in-na

   Is this class suitable for beginners?

   Usage

   Used to ask if a wellness class is appropriate for beginners

   Grammar Note

   "Lu thun" means "suitable for/appropriate to"

4. གཅིག་ལུ་གཅིག་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་རེ་ཞིབ་བཀོད་ཞུ་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Chig lu chig byong-drar re-zhib ko zhu na do-yi

   I'd like to book a private session

   Usage

   Used to book a private wellness session

   Grammar Note

   "Chig lu chig" literally means "one to one," expressing a private/individual setting

5. ཡོ་གར་གདན་ག་ནེ་ལས་གདམ་ཆོག།

   Yo-gar den ga-ne le gam chog

   Where can I rent a yoga mat?

   Usage

   Used to find out where to rent a yoga mat

   Grammar Note

   "Den" means "mat/cushion/rug." "Yo-gar den" = yoga mat

6. ཡོ་གར་ལུགས་སྲོལ་ག་གི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཨིན།

   Yo-gar lug-sol ga-gi byong-drar yin

   What style of yoga is this? (Hatha / Vinyasa / Yin)

   Usage

   Used to ask what style of yoga is being taught

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-gi yin" is a "what kind" question

7. ང་ལུ་པུས་མོ/རྒྱབ་ལྗིད་ཡི། བཟོ་འཁྲུང་གནང་ཆོག་གམ།

   Nga lu pu-mo / gyab-ji yi; zo-thrung nang chog-gam

   I have a knee / back injury — do you have modifications?

   Usage

   Used to inform an instructor about physical limitations or injuries

   Grammar Note

   "Chog-gam" asks for permission "can you/is it okay to?"

8. བསམ་གཏན་གྱི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Sam-ten gyi byong-drar yoe-pa in-na

   Is there a meditation session available?

   Usage

   Used to check if meditation sessions are offered

   Grammar Note

   "Sam-ten" is a traditional Tibetan Buddhist term for meditation/concentration

9. སློབ་ཚན་འདི་ལུ་དུས་ཡུན་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་འགོར་འོང་།

   Lop-tshen di-lu due-yun ga-dem-chig gor-ong?

   How long is the class?

   Usage

   Used to ask how long a wellness class lasts

   Grammar Note

   "Lop-tshen" means class/lesson; the second half is the construction for asking how long something takes.

10. སྡེ་ཚན་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་བགྲིམ་བཅུགས་གི་ཡི་ནམ།

    De-tshen thon-kye drim-chug gi yi-nam

    Do you offer a retreat package?

    Usage

    Used to ask about wellness retreat packages

    Grammar Note

    "Gi yi-nam" is a confirmation question about an ongoing action or offering

11. རེ་ཞིབ་མ་བཀོད་པར་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་འབད་ཆོག་ག།

    Re-zhib ma-ko-par dzul-zhug bay chog-ga?

    Can I drop in without a reservation?

    Usage

    Used to ask if walk-in attendance is allowed

    Grammar Note

    "Ma-ko-par" is a negative adverbial "without/not having done"

12. ན་ལུ་རླུང་ཁྲུས་ཡང་ན་འཇམ་ཁྲུས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

    Na lu lung-khru yang-na jam-khru yoe-pa in-na

    Is there a sauna or steam room?

    Usage

    Used to ask about the availability of a sauna or steam room

    Grammar Note

    "Yang-na" is a disjunctive conjunction "or/alternatively"

13. ཡིད་དབང་འཕྲོག་ཅིང་ཤི་བ་ཐོ་རངས་གི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

    Yid-wang phrog ching shi-wa tho-rang gi byong-drar yoe-pa in-na

    Do you offer sound healing or breathwork sessions?

    Usage

    Used to ask about specialized wellness offerings like sound healing or breathwork

    Grammar Note

    Bhutan has traditional meditation and breathwork practices connected with "Lungta" (wind horse)

14. གོ་ལ་སོར་སའི་ཁང་མིག་ཡང་ན་བཙན་སྒམ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

    Go-la sor-sai khang-mig yang-na tsen-gam yoe-pa in-na

    Is there a changing room / locker?

    Usage

    Used to ask about changing rooms or lockers at a wellness center

    Grammar Note

    "གོ་ལ་སོར་སའི་ཁང་མིག" is a room used to change clothes, and "བཙན་སྒམ" is a locker. "Yoe-pa in-na" asks whether something exists.

15. སློབ་དཔོན་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ཅིག་ཨིན། ཀདྲིན་ཆེ།

    Lob-pon leg-shom chig in; ka-drin-che

    The instructor was wonderful — thank you

    Usage

    Used to thank and compliment the wellness instructor

    Grammar Note

    "Ka-drin-che" is the most common expression of gratitude in Dzongkha

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