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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
Gajāsana, Elephant Pose. Hand-drawn illustration in Sritattvanidhi, 19th century Mysore Palace manuscript.The instruction to perform this pose "over and over again" in the 18th century Hațhābhyāsapaddhati is suggestive of the repetition of Downward Dog in the Surya Namaskar sequence.
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 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.
His 1996 book The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace presents the first English translation of the kautuka nidhi in the Sritattvanidhi, which provides instructions for [6] and illustrations [7] of 122 postures performed by a yogini in a topknot and loincloth. Some of these poses—which include handstands, backbends, foot-behind-the-head poses ...
The name comes from the Sanskrit मकर makara meaning "crocodile" or "monster", [2] and आसन āsana meaning "posture" or "seat". [3]Makarasana is described in the 17th-century Gheraṇḍa Saṁhitā (Chapter 2, Verse 40).