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The Mysore style of asana practice is the way of teaching yoga as exercise within the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga tradition as taught by K. Pattabhi Jois in the southern Indian city of Mysore; its fame has made that city a yoga hub with a substantial yoga tourism business.
Yoganidrasana is described in the 17th century Haṭha Ratnāvalī 3.70. [4] The pose is illustrated in an 18th century painting of the eight yoga chakras in Mysore. [5] It is illustrated as "Pasini Mudra" (not an asana) in Theos Bernard's 1943 book Hatha Yoga: The Report of A Personal Experience. [6]
The pose was unknown in hatha yoga until the 20th century Light on Yoga, but the pose appears in the 1896 Vyayama Dipika, a manual of gymnastics, so Norman Sjoman suggests that it was one of the poses adopted into modern yoga in Mysore by Krishnamacharya. The pose would then have been taken up by his pupils Pattabhi Jois and B. K. S. Iyengar. [4]
The yoga scholar Mark Singleton states that "Krishnamacharya was to make the flowing movements of sūryanamaskār the basis of his Mysore yoga style". [27] His students, K. Pattabhi Jois , [ 28 ] who created modern day Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga , [ 29 ] and B. K. S. Iyengar , who created Iyengar Yoga , both learned Sun Salutation and flowing ...
The pose is not mentioned in medieval hatha yoga texts. It appears in the 20th century in Krishnamacharya 's school of yoga in Mysore, and in the teaching of his pupils Pattabhi Jois and B. K. S. Iyengar , along with other asanas with names that describe the position of the body and its limbs.
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Tadasana is the basic standing asana on which many other poses are founded. The feet are together and the hands are at the sides of the body. The posture is entered by standing with the feet together, grounding evenly through the feet and lifting up through the crown of the head.
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