Mountain (Tadasana): A standing pose. Stand straight with your feet together and flat on the floor. Fan out your toes so that your weight is even. Relax your shoulders and lift and rotate the thighs inward to open the front of your body.

 

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Mountain (Tadasana): A standing pose. Stand straight with your feet together and flat on the floor. Fan out your toes so that your weight is even. Relax your shoulders and lift and rotate the thighs inward to op . . . View Full Definition

Mountain: A general term used in reference to an area that is at a conspicuously higher elevation than surrounding lands. Mountains are larger than hills and are significant enough in relief that they . . . View Full Definition

Mountain Bike: A fat-tire outdoors bicycle with upright handlebars that is built to withstand rough terrain.

Mountain Breeze: A katabatic wind, it is formed at night by the radiational cooling along mountainsides. As the slopes become colder than the surrounding atmosphere, the lower levels of air cool and drain to . . . View Full Definition

Mountain Wave: A wave in the atmosphere caused by a barrier, such as a mountain. Sometimes it is marked by lenticular clouds to the lee side of mountain barriers. May be called a standing wave or a lee wave.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Style: Various blends of coffee intended by their originators to approximate the qualities of authentic Jamaica Blue Mountain. These blends may contain no actual Jamaican coffee.

Jamaica Blue Mountain: Celebrated single-origin coffee from above 3,000 feet elevation in the Blue Mountain District of Jamaica. Can be exceptional: rich, complex, bouillon-like. More often a rather ordinary balan . . . View Full Definition

Block Fault Mountain: A linear mountain that is bounded on both sides by normal faults.

Fault-Block Mountain: A mountain or range formed as a horst when it was elevated between parallel normal faults.

Gayo Mountain: Market name for coffee exported by a large processing center and mill in Aceh Province, northern Sumatra. Wet-processed Gayo Mountain tends to be a clean but often underpowered version of th . . . View Full Definition