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  2. Bridge (exercise) - Wikipedia

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    An image of a bridge position with straight legs. The body is pushed over the shoulders to enable straight vertical arms, stretching the shoulders and upper body. The bridge (also called gymnastic bridge [1]) is an exercise. Many variations of this exercise are employed throughout the world, most commonly the balancing of the body on the hands ...

  3. Chakrasana - Wikipedia

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    The pose is often chosen by yoga practitioners who wish to advertise themselves: the Welsh author Holly Williams, writing about the commercialisation of yoga in The Independent, commented that she had "unfollowed [several] people on Instagram whose artful shots of their Lycra-clad one-legged wheel poses come with a barrage of hashtags (#fitspo ...

  4. List of human positions - Wikipedia

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    Pose implies an artistic, aesthetic, athletic, or spiritual intention of the position. Attitude refers to postures assumed for purpose of imitation, intentional or not, as well as in some standard collocations in reference to some distinguished types of posture: "Freud never assumed a fencer's attitude, yet almost all took him for a swordsman." [2]

  5. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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    A single asana is listed for each main pose, whether or not there are variations. Thus for Sirsasana (Yoga headstand), only one pose is illustrated, although the pose can be varied by moving the legs apart sideways or front-and-back, by lowering one leg to the floor, by folding the legs into lotus posture, by turning the hips to one side, by placing the hands differently on the ground, and so on.

  6. Asana - Wikipedia

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    An āsana (Sanskrit: आसन) is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose, [1] and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses.

  7. Bhujangasana - Wikipedia

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    Bhujangasana (Sanskrit: भुजंगासन; IAST: Bhujaṅgāsana) or Cobra Pose [1] is a reclining back-bending asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise. It is also performed in a cycle of asanas in Surya Namaskar , Salute to the Sun, as an alternative to Urdhva Mukha Svanasana , Upward Dog Pose.

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  9. Shirshasana - Wikipedia

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    In the Supported Headstand (Salamba Shirshasana), the body is completely inverted, and held upright supported by the forearms and the crown of the head. [9] In his Light on Yoga, B. K. S. Iyengar uses a forearm support, with the fingers interlocked around the head, for the basic posture Shirshasana I and its variations; he demonstrates a Western-style tripod headstand, the palms of the hands ...