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2. Ashtanga vinyasa yoga - Wikipedia

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   Ashtanga vinyasa yoga is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of classical Indian (hatha) yoga. [1] Jois claimed to have learnt the system from his teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya .

3. Matsyasana - Wikipedia

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   Matsyasana (Sanskrit: मत्स्यासन; IAST: Matsyāsana) or Fish pose [1] is a reclining back-bending asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise. It is commonly considered a counterasana to Sarvangasana, or shoulder stand, specifically within the context of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Primary Series. [2]

4. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

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   Asana is a posture that one can hold for a period of time, staying relaxed, steady, comfortable and motionless. The Yoga Sutra does not list any specific asana. [28] Āraṇya translates verse II.47 as, "asanas are perfected over time by relaxation of effort with meditation on the infinite"; this combination and practice stops the body from ...

5. Asana - Wikipedia

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   [138] [139] The asanas are grouped into six series, one Primary, one Intermediate, and four Advanced. Practice begins and ends with the chanting of mantras, followed by multiple cycles of the Sun Salutation, which "forms the foundation of Ashtanga Yoga practice", and then one of the series.

6. R. Sharath Jois - Wikipedia

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   Jois published Ashtanga Yoga Anusthana which provides an introduction and overview to Ashtanga Yoga, delineating the eight limbs of the practice, the importance of Tristhana and Vinyasa, main asanas of the primary series, and supplemental asanas for therapy. Jois, Sharath. Ageless: A Yogi's Secrets to a Long and Healthy Life

7. Guru (2006 film) - Wikipedia

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   The film shows Jois and his grandson Sharath Rangaswamy teaching in the yogashala at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India. [1] It combined footage of beginner and advanced students practising the various Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga series of asanas , from Primary to Advanced, with interviews with Jois and senior staff at the ...

8. Mysore style - Wikipedia

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   The Mysore style of asana practice is the way of teaching yoga as exercise within the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga tradition as taught by K. Pattabhi Jois in the southern Indian city of Mysore; its fame has made that city a yoga hub with a substantial yoga tourism business. [1] [2]

9. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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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 ...