enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. New to yoga? Start with these 13 easy poses - AOL

   www.aol.com/news/yoga-learn-6-easy-poses...

   These easy yoga poses for beginners will increase flexibility, reduce anxiety and aid in weight loss. Learn yoga basics like downward dog and sun salutation.

3. The Beginner's Guide to Yoga - AOL

   www.aol.com/beginners-guide-yoga-150700408.html

   Yoga is one of those things that we’ve almost all heard about, but very few of us know the full depths of what yoga is, where it came from, or how it’s come to be what it is today. As a ...

4. List of asanas - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asanas

   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. Lotus position - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_position

   It is an ancient asana in yoga, predating hatha yoga, and is widely used for meditation in Hindu, Tantra, Jain, and Buddhist traditions. Variations include easy pose (Sukhasana), half lotus, bound lotus, and psychic union pose. Advanced variations of several other asanas including yoga headstand have the legs in lotus or half lotus.

6. Meditative postures - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditative_postures

   They may, in the words of the yoga and meditation teacher Anne Cushman, be practising "self-torture ... apparently believing that bruising your inner thigh with your ankle is crucial to spiritual awakening." [7] The pose can cause beginners knee pain [8] and injury. [9] [10] Baddha Konasana is a safer alternative, provided the knees are not ...

7. Yoga - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga

   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 ...