Yoga Quiz: What is your Primary Guna?

Yoga Quiz: What is your Primary Guna?

Through the yogic lens, all of life is made up of three essential qualities. These qualities are called the gunas, and according to Sankhya philosophy, they are the three characteristics in which prakriti, or cosmic matter, can manifest.

In Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar offers some simple explanations to describe the three gunas: rajas, tamas, and sattva. Rajas is the quality of activity and mobility that is responsible for movement, and having an excess of rajas can lead to willful stubbornness. Tamas is the quality of inertia and form and is associated with delusion, obscurity, and ignorance. Sattva is often considered a goal of one’s yoga practice and is the quality of clarity, tranquility, and truth-illumination.

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While one guna may be more dominant within you than another guna, it’s important that we embrace all three gunas because they each have an essential role in our lives. In doing so, we can view the gunas as a complete and functional system, which, when utilized wisely, brings us into balance. Learn more about your primary guna by taking this quiz.

What colors are you most drawn towards?
When do you feel the most creative?
When something seems to go wrong, you…
What’s your diet?
You're happiest about life when...
When you wake up you generally feel...
If someone else takes credit for your idea you...
What's your yoga practice like?
How much sleep do you need to feel present and alert?
What's a typical day look like for you?
If you feel under the weather, what steps do you take to get better?

About April Stolarz

April Stolarz
A lover of life, storytelling, and sharing, April is always seeking ways to spread joy and positivity wherever she goes. After earning her degrees in Journalism and Creative Writing, April traveled throughout Central America to study at different yoga centers and ashrams, get her hands in the soil, learn about other cultures, and spend quality time with nothing but her yoga mat and the ocean. When April’s not working as the Managing Editor for YogaBasics you can find her experimenting in the kitchen by creating plant-based meals, wild-crafting and foraging medicinal herbs and food, practicing yoga on and off the mat or dancing through the forest.

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    Good quiz, however the suggestion to add more carbs & root veg is not going to happen. Too much sugar in carbs & root veg. My body reacts better to high fats (Good fats) & protein.

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    This test is interesting and has the perfect amount of questions to get a quick anser to what my main guna is.

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