Pose Library
Browse and explore yoga poses for your practice
Found 18 poses
Chinstand
An advanced pose combining an arm balance and a deep backbend, Chinstand builds significant strength in the arms, shoulders, chest, and back, enhances balance, fully opens the front body, and provides an energizing effect.
Dolphin
Dolphin Pose strengthens the shoulders, arms, and core while stretching the shoulders, hamstrings, and calves. It serves as a mild inversion, calms the brain, relieves stress, and is excellent preparation for deeper inversions like Forearm Stand and Headstand.
Downward-Facing Dog
Downward-Facing Dog is a cornerstone yoga pose offering a mild inversion, full-body stretch (especially shoulders, hamstrings, calves), and strengthening for arms and legs. It energizes the body, calms the brain, improves digestion, and relieves fatigue.
Fallen Angel
Fallen Angel Pose is a visually striking and challenging arm balance that incorporates a twist and balance on one hand and the side of the head. It builds arm, shoulder, and core strength, stretches the side waist, and enhances proprioception.
Forearm Stand
Forearm Stand (Feathered Peacock Pose) is an advanced inversion and arm balance that builds significant strength in the shoulders, arms, upper back, and core. It improves balance, proprioception, stretches the shoulders, and builds confidence.
Forearm Wheel
Forearm Wheel Pose (Inverted Staff) is an advanced deep backbend and inversion. It profoundly opens chest/shoulders, strengthens arms, legs, back, improves spinal flexibility, and stimulates the nervous system.
Handstand
Handstand is an advanced inversion and arm balance that builds significant strength in the shoulders, arms, wrists, and core. It improves balance, proprioception, increases circulation, and can calm the mind and build confidence once proficiency is gained.
Legs-up-the-Wall
Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose is a restorative mild inversion known for alleviating tired legs and feet, gently stretching the hamstrings and lower back, calming the nervous system, reducing stress/anxiety, and potentially improving sleep.
Plough
Plow Pose is an intermediate inversion and forward fold that stretches the shoulders and the entire spine (especially neck and upper back), stimulates abdominal organs and the thyroid gland, calms the brain, reduces stress/fatigue, and stretches hamstrings.
Rabbit
Rabbit Pose provides a deep flexion for the spine, stretching the upper back, neck, and shoulders. Often used as a counter-pose to backbends like Camel, it also offers a mild inversion effect and can relieve tension.
Ragdoll
Ragdoll Pose is a passive standing forward fold where the upper body hangs heavily, releasing tension in the spine, neck, and shoulders. It gently stretches the hamstrings and calves and offers a calming, restorative effect.
Standing Forward Bend
Standing Forward Bend stretches the hamstrings, calves, hips, and back spine, while calming the brain and relieving stress. It can reduce fatigue/anxiety, stimulate organs, and improve digestion. Acts as a mild inversion.
Standing Split
Standing Split is an intermediate standing balance and forward fold that intensely stretches the hamstrings of both legs, strengthens the standing leg, improves balance/coordination, and acts as a mild inversion.
Headstand
Supported Headstand (Salamba Sirsasana) is an advanced inversion considered the 'King of Asanas' in some traditions. It strengthens the arms, shoulders, core, and spine, calms the brain, relieves stress, improves digestion, and stimulates endocrine glands. Requires careful alignment and minimal weight on the head.
Supported Shoulderstand
Supported Shoulderstand, often called the 'Queen of Asanas', is an intermediate inversion with numerous traditional benefits including calming the brain, relieving stress/mild depression, stimulating thyroid/prostate glands and organs, stretching shoulders/neck, toning legs/buttocks, improving digestion, and reducing fatigue.
Three-Legged Dog
Three-Legged Dog is a variation of Downward-Facing Dog where one leg is lifted towards the ceiling. It deepens the stretch in the standing leg's hamstrings and calves, opens the hips, strengthens the upper body and core, and improves balance.
Wheel
Wheel Pose (Upward Bow) is an advanced deep backbend strengthening arms, legs, abdomen, spine; profoundly stretching chest, lungs, shoulders, hip flexors. Highly energizing.
Wide-Legged Forward Bend
Wide-Legged Standing Forward Bend stretches the hamstrings, groins, hips, calves, and spine. It calms the brain, relieves stress, strengthens legs/spine, tones organs, and eases mild backache. Acts as a mild inversion.