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2. Meditative postures - Wikipedia

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   All the same, she writes, a formal method is helpful, and the asana chosen needs to be stable and comfortable, as the Yoga Sutras state: on the one side, few people would wish to hold strenuous postures like Downward Dog for half an hour or more; on the other side, a restful posture like Savasana (Corpse Pose) might be comfortable but would ...

3. Lotus position - Wikipedia

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   Lotus is one of the yoga poses that most commonly causes injury. [2] [28] Attempts to force the legs into lotus pose can injure the knees by squeezing and damaging the medial meniscus cartilage; this is painful and takes a long time to heal. The hip joints must rotate outwards approximately 115 degrees to permit full lotus. Students who cannot ...

4. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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   An asana (Sanskrit: आसन, IAST: āsana) 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 ...

5. Siddhasana - Wikipedia

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   Siddhasana (Sanskrit: सिद्धासन; IAST: siddhāsana) or Accomplished Pose is an ancient seated asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise suitable for meditation. [1] The names Muktasana (Sanskrit: मुक्तासन, Liberated Pose ) and Burmese position are sometimes given to the same pose, sometimes to an easier ...

6. Dattatreyayogashastra - Wikipedia

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   The Dattātreyayogaśāstra is the first text to describe and teach yoga as having three types, namely mantra yoga, laya yoga, and hatha yoga. All three lead to samadhi , the goal of raja yoga . Mantra yoga consists simply of repeating mantras until powers ( siddhis ) are obtained.

7. Sarvangasana - Wikipedia

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   Iyengar Yoga teaches the pose using props to ensure correct alignment. [ 11 ] Salamba Sarvangasana may be performed on a strong and stable chair , with the legs resting on the chair back, the body supported by a folded blanket on the chair's seat, and the shoulders and neck supported on a bolster on the ground.

8. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

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   Maehle, Gregor (2007), Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy, New World Library; Taimni, I.K. (1961), The Science of Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (PDF) Whicher, Ian (1998), The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga, SUNY Press; Wynne, Alexander (2007), The Origin of Buddhist Meditation (PDF), Routledge

9. Padmasana - Wikipedia

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   Padmasana is a term derived from Sanskrit word padma: lotus, and āsana: seat or throne, and may refer to: Lotus throne in Hindu–Buddhist art; Lotus position in yoga; Mayurasana in yoga; Padmasana (shrine), a type of Balinese Hindu shrine