Pose Library
Browse and explore yoga poses for your practice
Found 33 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Crocodile Pose / Prone Resting
Crocodile Pose is a prone resting posture that allows the body to relax completely. It calms the nervous system, relieves tension in the lower back, and encourages diaphragmatic breathing.
Prenatal Cat-Cow
A pregnancy-safe version of the classic Cat-Cow stretch that promotes spinal mobility and relieves back tension. Modified to avoid deep backbends while maintaining the benefits of spinal movement throughout pregnancy.
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.
Reclined Butterfly
Reclined Butterfly (Supine Bound Angle Pose) is a restorative posture that gently stretches the inner thighs, groins, and hips. It calms the nervous system, reduces stress, stimulates abdominal organs, and can relieve menstrual discomfort.
Reclined Pigeon
Reclined Pigeon, often called Supine Figure Four or Eye of the Needle, effectively stretches the outer hips, glutes, and piriformis muscle. It's a safer alternative to traditional Pigeon Pose for sensitive knees.
Reclining Hero
Reclining Hero Pose offers an intense stretch for the quadriceps, hip flexors (psoas), ankles, and knees. It improves digestion, relieves tired legs, and can be a mild to deep backbend depending on the level of recline.
Savasana
Savasana is the ultimate relaxation posture, typically practiced at the end of a yoga session. It allows the body to completely rest, integrate the benefits of the practice, calm the nervous system, reduce stress and fatigue, and cultivate a state of deep conscious relaxation.