People practice yoga looking for many benefits: mental, physical and spiritual. This site focuses on the physical postures (asanas) which support you to do things like:
Develop techniques that allow you to control the body and mind.
Increase your overall flexibility.
Improve heart and circulatory health.
An asana or pose is a posture, whether for traditional hatha yoga or for modern yoga. 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, backbends, or reclining in prone or supine positions.
Text from the List of Asanas Wikipedia page.
We created this site to show people some basics of Yoga practice like poses and benefits. Some of the history and origins of Yoga is also included.
