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Devi's fascination with India began at 15 when she read a book by poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and a yoga instruction book by Yogi Ramacharaka.In Berlin, she worked as an actor in The Blue Bird, touring Europe, and accepted a proposal of marriage from the banker Herman Bolm, on condition she could first go to India; he agreed and paid for the trip.
In Light on Yoga, B. K. S. Iyengar notes that the Gheranda Samhita describes the pose as lying prone with both legs "stretched out"; the head is caught in the arms, and the pose is said to "increase bodily heat".
The pose is not found in B. K. S. Iyengar's 1966 textbook Light on Yoga, and may have been created as recently as the start of the 21st century. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The arm position in Virabhadrasana III can be varied; the arms may be held straight out to the sides, or straight back along the sides of the body, or the hands may be held in prayer ...
The Joga Pradīpikā (जोगप्रदीपिका, "A Small Light on Yoga") is a hatha yoga text by Ramanandi Jayatarama written in 1737 in a mixture of ...
The practitioner kneels with the buttocks on the inner arches of the feet, stretches the arms forwards with the hands outspread just off the ground, and makes a facial expression with the mouth open wide and the tongue out to resemble a lion. The yoga guru B. K. S. Iyengar notes that this is the traditional pose; he calls it Simhasana I. [6]
Yoganidrasana is described in the 17th century Haṭha Ratnāvalī 3.70. [4] The pose is illustrated in an 18th century painting of the eight yoga chakras in Mysore. [5] It is illustrated as "Pasini Mudra" (not an asana) in Theos Bernard's 1943 book Hatha Yoga: The Report of A Personal Experience. [6]
The pose stretches the shoulders. The hand position can be modified using a strap to extend the reach for those who cannot bring the hands together behind the back. [1] [9] The pose is contra-indicated for people with a rotator cuff injury. [9] Preparatory poses for Gomukhasana include Baddha Konasana and Garudasana. [1]
The pose is not mentioned in medieval hatha yoga texts. It appears in the 20th century in Krishnamacharya 's school of yoga in Mysore, and in the teaching of his pupils Pattabhi Jois and B. K. S. Iyengar , along with other asanas with names that describe the position of the body and its limbs.