Pose Library
Browse and explore yoga poses for your practice
Found 105 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 Angle
Bound Angle Pose, or Cobbler's Pose, is a seated hip opener that stretches the inner thighs, groins, and knees. It stimulates abdominal organs, improves circulation, calms the mind, and can soothe menstrual discomfort.
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.
Bridge
Bridge Pose is a beginner-friendly backbend that stretches the chest, neck, and spine, while strengthening the glutes, hamstrings, and back muscles. It can calm the brain, alleviate stress, and improve digestion.
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.
Cat
Cat Pose, typically paired with Cow Pose, involves rounding the spine towards the ceiling for spinal flexion. It gently massages and stretches the back muscles, relieves stress, improves posture, and increases coordination.
Balancing Table
Balancing Table (Bird Dog) is a foundational core strengthening pose that improves balance, coordination, and stability. It strengthens the core, back, and glutes while teaching proper spinal alignment and opposite limb coordination.
Cat-Cow Stretch
Cat-Cow Stretch is a gentle, flowing movement between two poses that warms the spine and improves flexibility. This dynamic sequence massages the spine, relieves back tension, improves posture, and connects breath with movement. It's an essential warm-up in most yoga practices.
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.
Child's
Child's Pose is a restorative forward fold that gently relaxes the front body while stretching the back torso, hips, thighs, and ankles. It calms the brain, helps relieve stress and fatigue, and can ease back and neck pain when supported.
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.
Cow
Cow Pose involves arching the spine (spinal extension) while on hands and knees, dropping the belly, lifting the chest and tailbone. It stretches the front torso and neck, massages the spine, and is typically paired with Cat Pose for warming up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eagle Arms
Eagle Arms is the upper body component of Eagle Pose, focusing on stretching the shoulders, upper back, and between the shoulder blades. This arm position can be practiced seated, standing, or as part of other poses to release tension in the upper body.
Easy
Easy Pose is a foundational seated posture for meditation and pranayama. It promotes grounding, stability, strengthens the back (when upright), gently opens the hips, and stretches the knees and ankles.
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.
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.