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2. 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 ...

3. Haṭha Ratnāvalī - Wikipedia

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   It mentions 8 purifications , criticising the Hatha Yoga Pradipika for only describing 6 of these. [3] It is one of the earliest texts (the other being the unpublished Yogacintāmaṇi) actually to name 84 asanas, [4] earlier manuscripts having simply claimed that 84 [a] or 8,400,000 asanas existed. [6]

4. Joga Pradīpikā - Wikipedia

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   The 84 asanas described and illustrated in the 1830 document include some that are widely practised in modern yoga, but its selection differs markedly from that in other hatha yoga texts such as the Hatha Ratnavali.

5. Asana - Wikipedia

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   Asanas are also called yoga poses or yoga postures in English. The 10th or 11th century Goraksha Sataka and the 15th century Hatha Yoga Pradipika identify 84 asanas; the 17th century Hatha Ratnavali provides a different list of 84 asanas, describing some of them.

6. Hatha yoga - Wikipedia

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   Yogacintamani: an early 17th-century text on the eight auxiliaries of yoga; the asana section describes 34 asanas, and variant manuscripts add another 84, mentioning most of the non-standing asanas used in modern yoga. [30] Hatha Ratnavali: a 17th-century text that states that Haṭha yoga consists of ten mudras, eight cleansing methods, nine ...

7. Shiva Samhita - Wikipedia

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   The Shiva Samhita talks about the complex yoga physiology and names 84 different asanas. [3] It teaches only four of the asanas: siddhasana , padmasana , paschimottanasana , and svastikasana . Mallinson states that it is the first text to describe paschimottanasana, a pose resembling dandasana as taught in the Patanjalayayogashastra , but with ...

8. Gomukhasana - Wikipedia

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   [4] [5] For instance, it is listed and described within the 84 asanas in the 17th-century Haṭha Ratnāvalī (3.7–20). [5] [6] However, the current form of Gomukhasana with the hands behind the back is mentioned only in such ancient tantric texts as the Ahirbudhnya Samhita. [5] It is sometimes used for meditation and pranayama. [7]

9. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

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   Asana is a posture that one can hold for a period of time, staying relaxed, steady, comfortable and motionless. The Yoga Sutra does not list any specific asana. [28] Āraṇya translates verse II.47 as, "asanas are perfected over time by relaxation of effort with meditation on the infinite"; this combination and practice stops the body from ...