Pose Library
Browse and explore yoga poses for your practice
Found 52 poses
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.
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.
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.
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 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 Puppy
Extended Puppy Pose (Melting Heart) offers a deep shoulder, chest, and upper back stretch with a mild spinal extension. It calms the mind, relieves stress, and prepares the body for deeper backbends or inversions.
Fire Log
Fire Log Pose (Double Pigeon) provides an intense stretch for the outer hips, glutes, and piriformis. It requires significant external hip rotation and can calm the mind when practiced mindfully.
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.
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 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).
Happy Baby
Happy Baby Pose is a gentle reclined posture that stretches the inner groins, hips, and lower back. It calms the brain, helps relieve stress and fatigue, and can release tension in the sacrum.
Hero
Hero Pose is a seated posture that stretches the thighs, knees, and ankles (tops of feet). It improves digestion, relieves tired legs, enhances posture, and serves as an alternative seat for meditation or pranayama.