Following are a series of
main yoga asanas performed by Ganga
Puri of the Santoshpuri
Ashram - click for larger asana pictures :
Ardha dhanur-asana
Ardha vrishchik-asana 1
Ardha vrishchik-asana 2
Badh padm
Bak-asana
Garbh pind-asana
Garbh-asana
Goraksh-asana
Hal-asana
Karna pind-asana 1
Karna pind-asana 2
Kukkut-asana
Matsya-asana
Mayur-asana
Padm sarvang-asana
Paschimottan-asana
Parivritta trikon-asana
Sarvang-asana
Setubandh-asana 1
Setu bandh-asana 2
Shirsh-asana 1
Shirsh-asana 2
Shirsh-asana 3
Supta vajra asana
Utthita trikon-asana
Vir bhadr-asana 1
Vir bhadr-asana 2
Yoga mudra-asana
Excercising postures or Asanas in Hatha
Yoga has two essential objectives.
The first is that to practice any real meditation,
one needs at the least one asana in which one can be perfectly
comfortable for a longer period of time. The more such postures
one can master, the better the basis for developing the inner
meditation techniques.
Free video clip on how to develop your stable sitting posture :
The second objective of excercising asanas in
Hatha Yoga is to bring health and energy to body and mind
by opening the nadis. When such excercises are regularly perfomed,
the path of hatha yoga is opened automatically, though one
still has to follow it further.
The mere mastering of postures is no objective
in itself, though mastering various postures certainly strengthens
the power of will and concentration and the habit of not paying
too much attention to the information input by the senses.
Thus practicing asanas in Hatha Yoga directly opens the path
to Prathyahara and Dharana.
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