Pose Library
Browse and explore yoga poses for your practice
Found 7 poses
Knees-Chest-Chin
Knees-Chest-Chin Pose is a traditional transitional posture in some Sun Salutation variations. It involves eight points of contact with the floor, creating a gentle backbend and strengthening the arms and chest.
Lotus
Lotus Pose is an advanced seated posture iconic for meditation, requiring extreme external hip rotation and flexible knees/ankles. It calms the brain, stimulates pelvic organs, stretches ankles/knees, and promotes upright posture.
Peacock
Peacock Pose (Mayurasana) is an advanced and classic arm balance renowned for strengthening the upper body and core, toning abdominal organs, and aiding digestion. It symbolizes digestive fire and requires significant wrist and forearm strength.
Plough
Plow Pose is an intermediate inversion and forward fold that stretches the shoulders and the entire spine (especially neck and upper back), stimulates abdominal organs and the thyroid gland, calms the brain, reduces stress/fatigue, and stretches hamstrings.
Scale
Scale Pose (Tolasana), usually performed from Lotus Pose, is an arm balance strengthening arms, wrists, shoulders, and core. It demands balance, concentration, and significant core lifting power combined with the stability of bound legs.
Headstand
Supported Headstand (Salamba Sirsasana) is an advanced inversion considered the 'King of Asanas' in some traditions. It strengthens the arms, shoulders, core, and spine, calms the brain, relieves stress, improves digestion, and stimulates endocrine glands. Requires careful alignment and minimal weight on the head.
Supported Shoulderstand
Supported Shoulderstand, often called the 'Queen of Asanas', is an intermediate inversion with numerous traditional benefits including calming the brain, relieving stress/mild depression, stimulating thyroid/prostate glands and organs, stretching shoulders/neck, toning legs/buttocks, improving digestion, and reducing fatigue.