Pose Library
Browse and explore yoga poses for your practice
Found 41 poses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
King Pigeon
One-Legged King Pigeon Pose deeply opens hips (external rotation front leg, extension back leg) and chest, creating a significant backbend. It stretches thighs, groins, psoas, abdomen, chest, shoulders, neck, improving spinal flexibility.
Legs-up-the-Wall
Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose is a restorative mild inversion known for alleviating tired legs and feet, gently stretching the hamstrings and lower back, calming the nervous system, reducing stress/anxiety, and potentially improving sleep.
Lizard
Lizard Pose is a deep hip opener that intensely stretches the hip flexors, hamstrings (of the front leg), and groins. It can also open the chest and shoulders in some variations and builds strength when active.
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.
Low Lunge
Low Lunge provides a deep stretch for the hip flexors and quadriceps of the back leg, while gently opening the chest and shoulders (if arms lifted). It improves balance slightly and releases hip tension.
Low Lunge with Quad Stretch
This variation of Low Lunge adds an intense quadriceps and hip flexor stretch for the back leg. It also opens the chest and shoulder of the arm reaching back and challenges balance.
Pigeon Prep / Sleeping Swan
Pigeon Pose Prep (Sleeping Swan) is a deep hip-opening forward fold that primarily stretches the external rotators of the front leg's hip (like piriformis and glutes) and the hip flexor of the back leg. It is often used to relieve sciatic discomfort and promote relaxation.
Ragdoll
Ragdoll Pose is a passive standing forward fold where the upper body hangs heavily, releasing tension in the spine, neck, and shoulders. It gently stretches the hamstrings and calves and offers a calming, restorative effect.