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Adho Mukha Mandukasana, Downward Facing Frog, practised in the Western world, has the knees and the feet equally wide apart, the lower legs pointing straight backwards, and the body supported also by the forearms flat on the floor, the elbows below or a little in front of the shoulders, the palms pressed together with thumbs uppermost. [1] [7] [8]
The name comes from the Sanskrit words Bheka (भेका, bheka) meaning "frog", [1] and asana (आसन) meaning "posture" [4] since the asana resembles a frog.. The pose is not described in the medieval hatha yoga texts.
The description of 84 asanas occupies 314 out of 964 verses in the 1737 version. Most of the asanas are said to bring therapeutic benefits ; all of them ask the practitioner to direct the gaze ( drishti ) at the point between the eyebrows or at the end of the nose.
Anusara School of Hatha Yoga, also known as Anusara Yoga (In Hindi:अनुसार योग) is the successor of a modern school of hatha yoga founded by American-born yoga teacher John Friend in 1997.
The Jivamukti Yoga method is a proprietary style of yoga created by David Life and Sharon Gannon in 1984. [1]Jivamukti is a physical, ethical, and spiritual practice, combining a vigorous yoga as exercise, vinyasa-based physical style with adherence to five central tenets: shastra (scripture), bhakti (devotion), ahims ā (nonviolence, non-harming), nāda (music), and dhyana (meditation).
Yogasopana Purvacatuska is written in the style of an instruction manual. It covers yoga in terms of Patanjali's eight limbs of yoga, with sections on the yamas (prohibitions), niyamas (observances), asanas (postures), and pranayama (breath control).
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The name comes from the Sanskrit गौ go meaning "cow", मुख mukha meaning "face" or "mouth", [2] and आसन āsana meaning "posture" or "seat". [3] The crossed legs are said to look like a cow's mouth, while the bent elbows supposedly look like a cow's ears.