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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]
It is arranged in six groups and includes asanas such as Gajāsana, elephant pose, which demand repeated movements, in the case of Gajāsana repetitions of Adho Mukha Svanasana, downward dog pose. It also contains postures that require great agility and strength, such as to cross the legs in Padmasana and then to climb a rope using only the ...
English Sanskrit Meaning Example Adho अधो downward Adho Mukha Shvanasana (downward [facing] dog) Ardha अर्ध half Ardha Padmasana (half lotus) Baddha बद्ध bound Baddha Konasana (bound angle) Dvi द्वि two Dvi Pada Kaundinyasana (two-legged Kaundinya) Eka एक one Eka Pada Shirshasana (one-legged headstand) Parsva
The 84 asanas listed (HR 3.7-20 [7]) include several variations of Padmasana and Mayurasana, Gomukhasana, Bhairavasana, Matsyendrasana, Kurmasana, Kraunchasana, Mandukasana, Yoganidrasana, and many names now not in wide usage; it provides descriptions of 36 of these asanas.
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 name comes from the Sanskrit words vṛkṣa (वृक्ष) meaning 'tree', [3] and āsana (आसन) meaning 'posture'. [4]A 7th-century stone carving in Mahabalipuram appears to contain a figure standing on one leg, perhaps indicating that a pose similar to vrikshasana was in use at that time.
Yogatārāvalī first folio at Prājña Pāṭhaśāḷā Maṇḍaḷ, Wai, Maharashtra. The Yogatārāvalī ("A String of Stars on Yoga" [1]) is a short yoga text of 29 verses from the 13th or 14th century, covering both haṭha yoga and rāja yoga (the yoga of Patanjali).
The work teaches an eightfold yoga identical with Patañjali's 8 limbs (aṣṭāṅgayoga) that it attributes to Yajnavalkya and others, and as an alternative, ten exercises, later called mudras, that it attributes to teachers including Kapila.