Pose Library
Browse and explore yoga poses for your practice
Found 49 poses
Big Toe
Big Toe Pose is a standing forward fold where the big toes are grasped, deepening the stretch in the hamstrings, calves, hips and spine. It calms the brain, relieves stress, strengthens thighs, and stimulates abdominal organs.
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.
Chair
Chair Pose (Utkatasana, meaning fierce or powerful pose) strongly strengthens the thighs, calves, ankles, and spine, while toning the core and glutes. It builds heat, stamina, and stimulates abdominal organs.
Crescent
Crescent Lunge is a standing pose that strengthens the legs, glutes, and core, while stretching the hip flexors and groins of the back leg. It improves balance, concentration, opens the chest/shoulders (with arms lifted), and builds stamina.
Dancer's
Dancer's Pose is an elegant standing balance combining a backbend and quadriceps stretch. It enhances balance, focus, stretches shoulders, chest, thighs, and abdomen, strengthens the standing leg, and cultivates grace.
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.
Eagle
Eagle Pose is an intermediate standing balance that involves wrapping the arms and legs, improving concentration, strengthening ankles and calves, and stretching the shoulders, upper back, and outer hips.
Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe
Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose (version A, leg forward) is an intermediate standing balance that strengthens the legs and ankles, intensely stretches the hamstrings, and improves balance and concentration.
Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe
Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose (version B, leg out to side) is an intermediate standing balance pose that strengthens the standing leg, opens the hips, stretches hamstrings and adductors of the lifted leg, and challenges balance and focus.
Extended Side Angle
Extended Side Angle Pose is a foundational standing pose that strengthens the legs and core, while stretching the side body, groin, chest, and shoulders. It builds stamina and can improve digestion.
Extended Triangle
Extended Triangle Pose is a foundational standing posture that stretches the hips, groins, hamstrings, calves, shoulders, chest, and spine. It strengthens the legs and core, stimulates abdominal organs, relieves stress, and improves balance.
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.
Gate
Gate Pose is a kneeling side bend that deeply stretches the side torso, spine, hamstrings, and adductors of the extended leg. It opens the shoulders/chest, stimulates organs, and improves spinal flexibility.
Goddess
Goddess Pose is a standing squat that strongly strengthens the legs (quads, glutes, inner thighs) and core, while opening the hips and groins. It builds heat, stamina, and promotes a sense of grounding and empowerment.
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.
Half Moon
Half Moon Pose is an intermediate standing balance pose that opens the hips and chest, stretches the groins and hamstrings, strengthens the legs and core, and improves coordination and balance.
Half Splits
Half Splits Pose provides an effective and accessible stretch for the hamstrings and calves of the front leg, while also gently stretching the hip flexors of the back leg. It is a key preparatory pose for Full Splits (Hanumanasana).
High Lunge
High Lunge strengthens the legs, glutes, and core, stretches the hip flexors and groins (back leg), improves balance, opens chest/shoulders (arms lifted), and builds stamina. Similar to Crescent Lunge.
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.
Intense Side Stretch
Intense Side Stretch Pose (Pyramid Pose) is a standing forward fold over one leg with both feet grounded. It deeply stretches the hamstrings, calves, hips, and spine, strengthens the legs, stimulates abdominal organs, improves posture/balance, and calms the brain.
Low Lunge
Low Lunge provides a deep stretch for the hip flexors and quadriceps of the back leg, while gently opening the chest and shoulders (if arms lifted). It improves balance slightly and releases hip 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.
Mountain
Mountain Pose is the fundamental standing posture, the blueprint for alignment. It improves posture, strengthens legs/ankles, firms core/glutes, reduces flat feet, and promotes grounding, stability, and body awareness.