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Mandukasana (Sanskrit: मन्दुकासन; IAST: Mandukāsana) or Frog pose is a group of seated asanas in Hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, all of which put the body in a shape like that of a frog.
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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 mudra Viparita Karani uses a variety of inverted poses, sometimes similar to the modern Sarvangasana, to trap and retain prana, life force, which would otherwise drip from the head and be lost.
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 at the point between the eyebrows or at the end of the nose.
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 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).