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2. The impressive health benefits of yoga - and 13 easy poses ...

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   Yoga poses for beginners. If you’re new to yoga, here are some great beginner poses to start with. I recommend trying them as a way to warm your body up in the morning or before a walk or wind ...

3. 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 ...

4. Anusara School of Hatha Yoga - Wikipedia

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   Friend was a popular teacher in the Iyengar style and, during the 1990s, served on the board of the Iyengar Yoga Organization for four years before leaving to found Anusara, Inc. in 1997. [5] [4] Since 2012, Friend has had no role in Anusara nor the training and certifying of teachers in the Anusara School of Hatha Yoga.

5. Downward Dog Pose - Wikipedia

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   Yoga Journal has called Downward Dog "deservedly one of yoga's most widely recognized yoga poses". [6] The Tico Times and others have called it the "quintessential yoga pose", [7] [26] noting that it is often chosen by film-makers when they need to depict a yoga class in progress. [7]

6. Sarvangasana - Wikipedia

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   The name Sarvangasana [8] is modern, but similar inverted poses were in use in medieval hatha yoga as a mudra, Viparita Karani, which is documented in the 14th century Śiva Saṃhitā 4.45-47, [9] the 15th century Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā 3.78-81, [9] the 17th century Gheraṇḍa Saṃhitā 3.33-35, [9] and other early texts such as the ...

7. Restorative Yoga - Wikipedia

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   The yoga teacher Cyndi Lee suggests a short sequence of six asanas, all with the use of supports: reclining bound angle pose (Supta Baddha Konasana), legs up the wall (Viparita Karani), a prone twist with both knees to one side (Jathara Parivartanasana), a sitting forward bend (Paschimottanasana), child's pose , and corpse pose (Shavasana, with ...

8. 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.

9. Standing asanas - Wikipedia

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   For example, Natarajasana, the pose of Dancing Shiva, is depicted in 13th - 18th century Bharatnatyam dance statues of the Eastern Gopuram, Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, implying, according to Ananda Bhavanani, that the pose was used in medieval hatha yoga and that there was a cultural interchange between yoga and dance. [8]