Pose Library
Browse and explore yoga poses for your practice
Found 50 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fish
Fish Pose is a reclined backbend opening the chest, throat, and shoulders, stretching the front neck and abdomen, and strengthening upper back muscles. It often counters Shoulderstand and can relieve fatigue.
Forearm Plank
Forearm Plank pose is a foundational core and upper body strengthener, building stability in the shoulders, arms, abdomen, and back. It prepares the body for more challenging inversions and arm balances.
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.
Frog
Frog Pose is an advanced prone backbend providing an intense quadriceps, hip flexor, and ankle stretch. It opens the chest/shoulders, strengthens back muscles, and stimulates abdominal organs.
Pigeon
Kapotasana (full Pigeon) is an expert-level symmetrical deep backbend from kneeling. It profoundly opens the entire front body, maximizes spinal flexibility/strength, opens chest/shoulders deeply, and stimulates nervous/endocrine systems.
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.
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.
Half Lotus
Half Lotus Pose is an intermediate seated hip-opening posture that prepares the body for Full Lotus. It stretches the hips, knees, and ankles, promotes an upright spine, and is often used for meditation and pranayama.
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.
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.
Head-to-Knee Forward Bend
Head-to-Knee Forward Bend is a seated forward fold stretching one leg's hamstring while opening the opposite hip and groin. It calms the brain, relieves mild depression/anxiety, stretches the spine/shoulders, stimulates liver/kidneys, and aids digestion.