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There are plenty of reasons to pick up yoga, and thanks to the internet, you don’t even have to join a yoga studio to practice. You can just as efficiently do yoga from your home by following ...
Hatha yoga (/ ˈ h ʌ t ə, ˈ h ɑː t ə /; IAST: Haṭha-yoga) [2] is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy. The Sanskrit word हठ haṭha literally means "force", alluding to a system of physical techniques.
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An asana (Sanskrit: आसन, IAST: āsana) is a body posture, used in both medieval hatha yoga and modern yoga. [1] The term is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'seat'. While many of the oldest mentioned asanas are indeed seated postures for meditation , asanas may be standing , seated, arm-balances, twists, inversions, forward bends ...
Baddha Konasana. Baddha Konasana (Sanskrit: बद्धकोणासन; IAST: baddhakoṇāsana), Bound Angle Pose, [1] Butterfly Pose, [2] or Cobbler's Pose (after the typical sitting position of Indian cobblers when they work), [3] and historically called Bhadrasana, [4] Throne Pose, [4] is a seated asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise.
Yoga as exercise is part of a modern yoga renaissance, [247] a 20th-century blend of Western gymnastics and haṭha yoga pioneered by Shri Yogendra and Swami Kuvalayananda. [248] Before 1900, hatha yoga had few standing poses; the Sun Salutation was pioneered by Bhawanrao Shrinivasrao Pant Pratinidhi, the Rajah of Aundh, during the 1920s. [249]
Cobra Pose or Bhujangasana (Sanskrit: भुजंगासन; IAST: Bhujaṅgāsana) [1] is a reclining back-bending asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise. It is also performed in a cycle of asanas in Surya Namaskar, Salute to the Sun, as an alternative to Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, Upward Dog Pose. The Yin Yoga form is Sphinx Pose.
Vrikshasana or Tree pose. Tree pose [1] or Vrikshasana (Sanskrit: वृक्षासन, romanized: vṛkṣāsana) is a balancing asana.It is one of the very few standing poses in medieval hatha yoga, and remains popular in modern yoga as exercise. [2]