General information to expand your mind!

Yoga Asana

The practice of Asana, is necessary to teach us how to sit erect keeping ourselves healthy and channeling the current of prana towards the final goal of spirituality. Poses have been devised to bring a rich supply of blood to the brain and to the various parts of the spinal column. Yoga asana works by stretching, bending and twisting the spinal column in different directions to promote the health of the nerves. When the body is purified, Prana can be conserved and the individual can become healthy and conscious.

Regularity in yoga asana practice is an absolute necessity if one wishes to release the full potential of the Yoga process. If the foundations of a building are not correctly laid, the superstructure will fall down. So too, if a student of Yoga has not gained a certain degree of mastery over the person can not successfully proceed to the advanced disciplines.

Yoga is a direct experience of the vast interrelatedness of all life and of all things. You will feel at peace at the end of a Hatha yoga (yoga asana) class because there is a natural realignment of your body which leads to a natural realignment of your perception of life and of who you are.

Asanas - Standing
Virabhadrasana I - Warrior I	Virabhadrasana II - Warrior II	Utthita Parsvakonasana - Extended Side Angle Pose	Parivrtta Parsvakonasana - Revolved Extended Side Angle Pose	Prasarita Padottanasana I
Vrksasana - Tree Pose	Nataraja - Lord of the Dance Pose	Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana - Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose	Garudasana - Eagle Pose	Uttana Tadasana - Extended Mountain Pose
Asanas - Seated & Twists
Chaturanga Dandasana - Four Limbed Staff Pose	Ubhaya Padangusthasana - Both Big Toe Pose	Padmasana - Lotus Posture	Krounchasana - Heron Posture	Matsyasana - Fish Pose
Marichyasana II	Dhanurasana - Bow pose	Ustrasana - Camel Pose	Kurmasana - Tortise Pose	Supta Virasana - Reclined Hero Pose
Asanas - Inversions
Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog	Salamba Sirsasana "B"- Headstand	Salamba Sirsasana - Headstand Variation	Urdhva Dhanurasana - Upward Bow Pose	Halasana - Plow
Salamba Sarvangasana - Shoulderstand	Salamba Sirsasana "A"- Headstand
Asanas - Arm Balances
Mayurasana - Peacock	Vrschikasana - Scorpion Pose
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