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2. Ujjayi - Wikipedia

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   Ujjayi (Sanskrit: उज्जायी, "victorious") [1] is a pranayama (breathing technique) employed in a variety of yoga practices. In the context of yoga, it is sometimes called "the ocean breath."

3. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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   The traditional number of asanas is the symbolic 84, but different texts identify different selections, sometimes listing their names without describing them. [3] [a] Some names have been given to different asanas over the centuries, and some asanas have been known by a variety of names, making tracing and the assignment of dates difficult. [5]

4. List of human positions - Wikipedia

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   The human body is capable of a wide variety of positions, as exemplified by this energetic yoga position, "astavakrasana".. Human positions refer to the different physical configurations that the human body can take.

5. Postures of Bikram Yoga - Wikipedia

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   The postures include 24 asanas (poses in modern yoga as exercise), one pranayama breathing exercise, and one shatkarma, a purification making use of forced breathing. Bikram Yoga was devised by Bikram Choudhury around 1971 when he moved to America.

6. Tree pose - Wikipedia

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   Vrikshasana or Tree pose. Tree pose [1] or Vrikshasana (Sanskrit: वृक्षासन, romanized: vṛkṣāsana) is a balancing asana.It is one of the very few standing poses in medieval hatha yoga, and remains popular in modern yoga as exercise. [2]

7. Dhanurasana - Wikipedia

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   The name comes from the Sanskrit words धनुर (dhanura) meaning "bow", [2] [3] and आसन (āsana) meaning "posture" or "seat". [ 4 ] A similar pose named Nyubjasana, "the face-down asana", is described and illustrated in the 19th century Sritattvanidhi . [ 5 ]

8. Durvasasana - Wikipedia

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   Durvasasana is an advanced standing balancing pose with one leg behind the neck; [9] the hands are held together over the chest in prayer position. [10] As well as rating the pose of difficulty level 21 (out of 60), B. K. S. Iyengar states that it is difficult to balance in the pose, and recommends using a support to begin with. [2]

9. Bakasana - Wikipedia

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   The names for the asanas come from the Sanskrit words बक baka ("crane") or काक kāka ("crow"), and आसन āsana meaning "posture" or "seat". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] While different yoga lineages use one name or another for the asanas, Dharma Mittra makes a distinction, citing Kakasana as being with arms bent (like the shorter legs of a crow ...