Pose Library
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Found 14 poses
Bird of Paradise
Bird of Paradise is an advanced standing balance pose that incorporates a bind, requiring significant hamstring, hip, and shoulder flexibility, as well as core strength and focus. It strengthens the standing leg and opens the chest.
Bound Extended Side Angle
Bound Extended Side Angle Pose deepens the stretch of Extended Side Angle by adding a bind behind the back. This intensely opens the shoulders and chest, stretches the hips and groins, strengthens the legs, and improves stamina.
Compass
Compass Pose is an advanced seated posture involving a deep hamstring stretch, shoulder opening, and twist. It requires significant flexibility in the hamstrings, hips, and shoulders, opening the side body and chest.
Cow Face
Cow Face Pose deeply stretches the hips (especially outer hips/glutes), ankles, thighs, shoulders, armpits, triceps, and chest. It improves posture and requires coordinating stacked knees with bound arms behind the back.
Flying Warrior
Visvamitrasana, or Flying Warrior Pose, is an expert-level posture integrating an arm balance, side bend, twist, and intense hamstring stretch. It demands and builds exceptional strength, flexibility, balance, and concentration.
Half Bound Lotus Standing Forward Bend
This advanced standing forward bend involves balancing on one leg while the other is in Half Lotus, with a bind around the back. It deeply stretches the standing leg's hamstring, opens the lotus leg's hip, stretches the binding shoulder, and challenges balance.
Humble Warrior
Humble Warrior is a standing forward fold typically performed with legs in a Warrior I stance and hands bound behind the back. It stretches the shoulders, chest, and hips, strengthens legs and core, calms the mind, encourages introspection, and releases upper back tension.
Low Lunge with Quad Stretch
This variation of Low Lunge adds an intense quadriceps and hip flexor stretch for the back leg. It also opens the chest and shoulder of the arm reaching back and challenges balance.
Sage's 1
Marichyasana A is an intermediate seated forward fold incorporating a bind around one bent leg. It stretches the shoulders, hamstrings (straight leg), and hips, calms the brain, stimulates abdominal organs, and improves digestion.
Sage's 3
Marichyasana C is an intermediate seated twist, often incorporating a bind around the bent leg. It stretches the shoulders, hips, and spine, massages abdominal organs, improves digestion, energizes the spine, and can relieve mild backache.
Noose
Noose Pose is an advanced squatting twist with a bind. It deeply stretches the shoulders and chest, increases spinal flexibility, massages abdominal organs aiding digestion/detoxification, and strengthens ankles/legs.
Sugarcane
Sugarcane Pose is an intermediate standing balance that evolves from Half Moon Pose. It adds a quadriceps stretch and backbend by catching the lifted foot, opening the hips, chest, and shoulders while challenging balance and coordination.
Super Soldier
Super Soldier Pose is a highly complex and advanced standing balance involving a deep twist, a bind holding the extended leg, and intense stretches. It challenges balance, flexibility (hamstrings, hips, shoulders), strength, and concentration to an extreme degree.
Tiger
Tiger Pose, often a balancing pose on all fours with lifted leg/arched back (optional opposite arm extension/bind), strengthens core/back, improves balance/coordination, stretches hip flexors, warms spine.