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2. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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   An asana 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, backbends , or reclining in prone or ...

3. 2,100 Asanas - Wikipedia

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   Yoga Journal reviewed the book. It reported Lacerda as saying that he had catalogued 8.4 million yoga poses mentioned in Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and that they had been revealed to him in a dream. He stated that 2,100 Asanas was the first edition, and that he was working on a second edition, to be called 50,000 Asanas.

4. Category:Asanas - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Medieval Hatha Yoga asanas (30 P) Meditation ... Standing asanas (1 C, 21 P) T. Twisting asanas (7 P) Y ...

5. Asana - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; ... [2] Asanas are also called yoga poses or ... as well as several unidentified poses. [32] By the 17th century, asanas became an ...

6. 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.

7. Paschimottanasana - Wikipedia

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   The pose is not found in the medieval hatha yoga texts. The 19th century Sritattvanidhi uses the name Dandasana for a different pose, the body held straight, supported by a rope. The yoga scholar Norman Sjoman notes, however, that the traditional Indian Vyayama gymnastic exercises include a set of movements called "dands", similar to Surya ...