Pose Library
Browse and explore yoga poses for your practice
Found 18 poses
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.
Easy Pose Twist
Easy Pose Twist is a gentle seated spinal rotation that improves spinal mobility, massages abdominal organs, aids digestion, and releases tension in the back, shoulders, and neck. It's an accessible twist for most levels.
Eight-Angle
Eight-Angle Pose (Astavakrasana) is an advanced twisting arm balance that challenges strength, flexibility, and balance. It builds significant arm and core power, improves hip and hamstring flexibility, and offers a detoxifying spinal twist.
EPK 1
Eka Pada Koundinyasana I (often called Flying Splits or Flying Man Pose) is an advanced twisting arm balance. It demands deep core strength (especially obliques), powerful arms and shoulders, good balance, and open hamstrings.
EPK 2
Eka Pada Koundinyasana II is a highly advanced arm balance integrating a deep twist, significant core and arm strength, and balance. It is known for its detoxifying effects due to the intense twist.
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.
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 Lord of the Fishes
Half Lord of the Fishes Pose is a classic seated spinal twist that increases spinal flexibility, energizes the spine, stretches shoulders, hips, and neck, massages abdominal organs, aids digestion, and can relieve mild backache.
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.
Reclined Twist
Reclined Spinal Twist gently rotates the spine while stretching the back muscles, glutes, hips, chest, and shoulders. It massages abdominal organs, aids digestion/detoxification, relieves stress, calms the nervous system, and improves spinal mobility.
Revolved Chair
Revolved Chair Pose is a powerful standing twist that combines the leg strengthening of Chair Pose with a deep spinal rotation. It builds heat, improves balance, detoxifies abdominal organs, and strengthens the core.
Revolved Head-to-Knee
Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose is an intermediate seated posture combining a deep side bend, twist, and hamstring stretch. It intensely opens the side waist/rib cage, stretches hamstrings/groins/shoulders, stimulates organs, and relieves fatigue.
Revolved Side Angle
Revolved Side Angle Pose is an intermediate to advanced standing twist that deeply strengthens legs/core, stretches spine/chest/shoulders, improves balance/stamina, aids digestion, and offers potent detoxifying effects.
Revolved Triangle
Revolved Triangle Pose is an intermediate standing twist that strengthens/stretches the legs, stretches hips/spine, stimulates organs, improves balance, and offers detoxifying benefits. Requires hamstring flexibility and spinal mobility.
Side Crane (Crow)
Side Crane Pose (Parsva Bakasana), or Side Crow, is an advanced twisting arm balance building significant strength in arms, wrists, and core (especially obliques). It improves balance, focus, and offers a deep, detoxifying spinal twist.
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.
Thread the Needle
Thread the Needle Pose is a gentle reclined twist and shoulder stretch performed from Table Top. It releases tension in the upper back, shoulders, and neck, and provides a mild spinal rotation.