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2. Mindful Yoga - Wikipedia

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   The professor of medicine and pioneer of Mindfulness Yoga Jon Kabat-Zinn wrote in 1990 that "Mindful hatha yoga is the third major formal meditation technique that we practice in the stress clinic [at the University of Massachusetts Medical School], along with the body scan [a] and sitting meditation…"

3. Yoga as therapy - Wikipedia

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   Although relatively safe, yoga is not a risk-free form of exercise. Sensible precautions can usefully be taken, such as avoiding advanced moves by beginners, not combining practice with psychoactive drug use, and avoiding competitiveness. [59] A small percentage of yoga practitioners each year suffer physical injuries analogous to sports ...

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. Yashtikasana - Wikipedia

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   Yashtikasana (Yastikasana) or Stick position is a beginner level yoga pose that is usually performed in preparation for more intermediate to advanced level asanas. In Sanskrit, "Yastik" means stick. It is widely used for meditation. Yastikasana ultimate simple yoga pose to destress and remove all fatigue.

6. 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 .

7. Uttanasana - Wikipedia

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   The modern pose is described in Krishnamacharya's 1934 Yoga Makaranda, [5] and in the works of his pupils, B. K. S. Iyengar's 1966 Light on Yoga [6] and Pattabhi Jois's Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] Theos Bernard however illustrates the related pose "Padhahasthasana" (sic) in his 1944 report of his experience of hatha yoga on the border of ...