Pada Hastasana: Steps, Benefits
Introduction Pada Hastasana is a standing forward bend. We call it a modern yoga posture since the medieval yoga texts did not mention it. However, the posture has a place...
Eka Padasana: Steps, Benefits
Introduction Eka Padasana is a standing yoga pose. Classic yoga texts don't mention this posture. Therefore it is a modern yoga posture or it might have been in practice without...
Trikonasana: Meaning, Steps, Benefits
Introduction Trikonasana aka Utthita Trikonasana is a modern standing yoga posture. Yoga Guru T.Krishnamacharya first described this posture in his book Yoga Makaranta in the year 1934. Before that, we...
Dwikonasana: Steps, Benefits
Dwikonasana is a modern intermediate level standing yoga posture that improves the flexibility of the shoulder joints. We could not find any mention in the medieval yoga text. Dwikonasana Information...
Samakonasana: Meaning, Steps, Benefits
Introduction Samakonasana is a recently developed modern yoga posture. We could not find any mention in yoga texts. Despite the fact that it is a seated yoga posture, Bihar School...
Uttanasana: Meaning, Steps, Benefits
Introduction Uttanasana is a forward bending yoga pose. Also it forms part of Sun Salutation. The third and tenth position of Sun Salutation is this asana. This fact is a...
Garudasana: Meaning, Steps, Benefits
Introduction Garudasana which is known to us now is diffrent from the pose that was originally described in the Seventeenth Century yoga text Gheranda Samhita. Gheranda Samhita 1.37 describes Place...
Tadasana: Meaning, Steps, Benefits
Introduction Tadasana is a simple basic level standing yoga pose. It is also a base yoga position upon which many other standing yoga postures are performed. Surya Namaskar starts and...