Pose Library
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Found 64 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.
Boat
Boat Pose is a seated posture that significantly strengthens the core (abdomen, back) and hip flexors. It improves balance, digestion, builds focus and stamina, and can help relieve stress.
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.
Bow
Bow Pose is an intermediate prone backbend that deeply stretches the entire front of the body, including the chest, abdomen, hip flexors, and quadriceps, while strengthening the back muscles, improving spinal flexibility, and stimulating abdominal organs. It is an energizing pose.
Camel
Camel Pose is an intermediate deep backbend performed from a kneeling position that stretches the entire front body—hip flexors, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and throat. It improves spinal flexibility, strengthens back muscles, opens the shoulders and chest, and enhances posture.
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.
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.
Cobra
Cobra Pose is a foundational prone backbend strengthening the spine, stretching the chest, abdomen, and shoulders, and toning the buttocks. It helps relieve stress, opens the heart and lungs, and is often part of Sun Salutations.
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.
Crane
Crane Pose is an intermediate arm balance that builds arm, wrist, and core strength, improves balance and focus, and can open the groins slightly. It differs from Crow by having straighter arms and higher hips.
Crow
Crow Pose (Kakasana) is a foundational arm balance that strengthens the arms, wrists, and core, tones abdominal organs, and significantly improves balance and concentration. In Kakasana, the elbows are typically more bent and knees rest on the triceps.
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.
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.
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.
Firefly
Firefly Pose (Tittibhasana) is an advanced arm balance demanding significant arm, wrist, and core strength, coupled with deep hamstring and groin flexibility. It strengthens the upper body and stretches the entire back line of the legs.
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.
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.