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An International Day of Yoga class in Kolkata practising Ardha Ustrasana, Half Camel pose. Ustrasana is a deep backward bend from a kneeling position; the completed pose has the hands on the heels. [7] The backs of the feet may be flat on the floor, or the toes may be tucked under for a slightly less strong backbend. [8]
The scholars Agi Wittich and Patrick McCartney wrote in 2020 that the image of contemporary yoga is the idealized, fit, young, slim, white, female yoga body, commercialized on the covers of glossy magazines such as Yoga Journal, and that non-lineage yoga evolved in reaction against that image.
Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice is a 2010 book on yoga as exercise by the yoga scholar Mark Singleton.It is based on his PhD thesis, and argues that the yoga known worldwide is, in large part, a radical break from hatha yoga tradition, with different goals, and an unprecedented emphasis on asanas, many of them acquired in the 20th century.
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The 19th century Sritattvanidhi uses the name Ardha Chandrasana for a different pose, Vrikshasana. [4] Swami Yogesvarananda used the name in his 1970 First Steps to Higher Yoga for a pose similar to Kapotasana, Pigeon. [4] The modern usage of the name is found in B. K. S. Iyengar's 1966 Light on Yoga. [5]
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The name of the pose comes from the Sanskrit उत्थित Utthita extended, वसिष्ठ Vasiṣṭha, a sage, [1] and आसन āsana, "posture" or "seat". [2] [3] The pose is not described in the medieval hatha yoga texts. It appears in the 20th century in the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga of Pattabhi Jois. [4]
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