SN-YE: A tool for Surya Namaskara - Yoga Exploration

This is a tool to explore Surya Namaskar (SN), or Sun Salutation, which is a set of choreographed asanas from Yoga. The tool is powered by making queries on the SN-YO ontology.

Image Credit: all visual references in the tool are taken from Common Yoga Protocol (English), Ministry of Ayush, Government of India .

Try queries Predefined, SPARQL, or Natural Language

Start from validated competency questions, write SPARQL directly, or ask supported questions through Gemini-assisted templates.

Inspect evidence Ontology facts and source queries

Review retrieved rows, generated SPARQL, linked asanas, breathing annotations, safety notes, and visual references.

Language Localized asana labels

Use the Language selector to add available UN and Indian scheduled-language labels to predefined and natural-language results.

Natural Language Interface

Query the Knowledge Graph

This framework interprets your natural language prompts and translates them into structured SPARQL queries against the Surya Namaskar Ontology.

Gemini API Key & Model Required

Gemini API key

Model

Input prompt

Getting Started

Example Queries

Select a model and enter a natural language prompt on the left to begin generating custom queries dynamically. If you're not sure where to start, try these tested examples:

"What are the different variants of SN?"
"What is the ordered sequence of poses in the Base Surya Namaskar (Sivananda) variant?"
"What rules and common errors are documented for Bhujangasana (Pose 7)?"
"What breathing pattern and safety note are modeled for each Base SN pose?"
"Which poses in Base SN carry mantra and chakra annotations?"
"Compare the pose counts across all three variants (Base SN, V1, V2, V3)."
"Which asanas are shared across multiple variants?"
"What is the ordered pose sequence for V1 (Krishnamacharya)?"
"Which poses exhibit inverse left/right laterality pairings?"
"Which asanas have linked CYP (Common Yoga Protocol) visual references?"

Generated SPARQL Query

Query Review

SPARQL Workspace

Write Direct Ontology Queries

The local runner supports browser-side SELECT queries over the loaded SN-YO OWL file. Use prefixes, triple patterns, OPTIONAL blocks, VALUES, LANG filters, ORDER BY, and LIMIT for focused exploration.

corehttps://purl.org/ai4s/yoga/sn-yo/core#

basehttps://purl.org/ai4s/yoga/sn-yo/base-sn#

v1https://purl.org/ai4s/yoga/sn-yo/variant01#

v2https://purl.org/ai4s/yoga/sn-yo/variant02#

v3https://purl.org/ai4s/yoga/sn-yo/variant03#

core:Pose core:Asana core:Variant core:hasAsana core:poseNumber core:hasBreathingPattern core:hasSafetyNote

Query Editor

SPARQL SELECT

SPARQL Results

Run a query

Local OWL evaluation

Results from the direct SPARQL editor will appear here.

Query Examples

SPARQL Templates for SN-YO

Use these examples as starting points for direct ontology exploration. Paste one into the editor above after the prefix block, or adapt the variables and predicates for your own question.

Base SN sequence with asanas and breathing

SELECT ?pose ?poseNumber ?asanaLabel ?breathingLabel
WHERE {
  ?pose rdf:type core:Pose .
  ?pose core:belongsToVariant base:BaseSN_SivanandaYogaVedantaCentre_UsedatIITBHU .
  ?pose core:poseNumber ?poseNumber .
  ?pose core:hasAsana ?asana .
  ?asana rdfs:label ?asanaLabel .
  FILTER(LANG(?asanaLabel) = "en")
  OPTIONAL {
    ?pose core:hasBreathingPattern ?breathing .
    ?breathing rdfs:label ?breathingLabel .
    FILTER(LANG(?breathingLabel) = "en")
  }
}
ORDER BY ?poseNumber

Available asanas with localized labels

SELECT ?asana ?englishLabel ?localizedLabel
WHERE {
  VALUES ?language { "fr" }
  ?asana rdf:type core:Asana .
  ?asana rdfs:label ?englishLabel .
  FILTER(LANG(?englishLabel) = "en")
  OPTIONAL {
    ?asana rdfs:label ?localizedLabel .
    FILTER(LANG(?localizedLabel) = ?language)
  }
}
ORDER BY ?englishLabel

Safety notes in the base sequence

SELECT ?poseNumber ?asanaLabel ?safetyNote
WHERE {
  ?pose rdf:type core:Pose .
  ?pose core:belongsToVariant base:BaseSN_SivanandaYogaVedantaCentre_UsedatIITBHU .
  ?pose core:poseNumber ?poseNumber .
  ?pose core:hasAsana ?asana .
  ?asana rdfs:label ?asanaLabel .
  FILTER(LANG(?asanaLabel) = "en")
  ?pose core:hasSafetyNote ?safetyNote .
}
ORDER BY ?poseNumber

Asanas with CYP visual references

SELECT ?asana ?asanaLabel ?cypPage
WHERE {
  ?asana rdf:type core:Asana .
  ?asana rdfs:label ?asanaLabel .
  FILTER(LANG(?asanaLabel) = "en")
  ?asana core:hasCYPPage ?cypPage .
}
ORDER BY ?cypPage