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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.
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.
See also the "Role of Asana" teaching poster texts. and also "Yoga Asanas and Doshas (body types).
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 |
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Yoga mudra-asana |
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