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2. 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 ...

3. Scorpion pose - Wikipedia

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   Scorpion pose or Vrischikasana is an inverted asana in modern yoga as exercise that combines a forearm balance and backbend; [1] [2] the variant with hands rather than forearms on the floor, elbows bent, is called Ganda Bherundasana. [3] Light on Yoga treats both forearm and hand balance forms as variants of this pose. It is a part of the ...

4. Headstand - Wikipedia

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   The yoga headstand, Shirshasana, may be balanced and symmetrical from all perspectives, even though not always in a legs-vertical position. The asana has many variations, several of them asymmetrical.

5. 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 ...

6. Yoga - Wikipedia

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   A number of yoga texts, such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads, have borrowed from (or frequently refer to) the Yoga Yajnavalkya. [197] It discusses eight yoga asanas (Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura), [198] a number of breathing exercises for body cleansing, [199] and ...

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   12. The Lean-In. Sometimes keeping it simple is the best way to go when it comes to creative sex positions. Lie on your back and allow your partner to go down on you while also penetrating you ...

8. Handstand - Wikipedia

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   An acro dancer pauses in a precision handstand before handwalking across the stage. A handstand is the act of supporting the body in a stable, inverted vertical position by balancing on the hands. In a basic handstand, the body is held straight with arms and legs fully extended, with hands spaced approximately shoulder-width apart and the legs ...

9. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

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   Yoga asanas were brought to America by the yoga teacher Yogendra. [27] [44] He founded a branch of The Yoga Institute in New York state in 1919, [45] [46] starting to make Haṭha yoga acceptable, seeking scientific evidence for its health benefits, [47] and writing books such as his 1928 Yoga Asanas Simplified [48] and his 1931 Yoga Personal ...