Caturanga Dandasana
Chaturanga Dandasana ( sa, चतुरङ्ग दण्डासन; IAST: ''Caturaṅga Daṇḍāsana'') or Four-Limbed Staff pose, also known as Low Plank, is an asana in modern yoga as exercise and in some forms of Surya Namaskar (Salute to the Sun), in which a straight body parallel to the ground is supported by the toes and palms, with elbows at a right angle along the body. The variation Kumbhakasana, Phalakasana, or High Plank has the arms straight. Etymology and origins The name comes from the sa, चतुर् IAST ''catur'', "four"; अङ्ग ''aṅga'', "limb"; दण्ड ''daṇḍa'', "staff"; and आसन; ''āsana'', "posture" or "seat". The pose is unknown in hatha yoga until the 20th century '' Light on Yoga'', but the pose appears in the 1896 ''Vyayama Dipika'', a manual of gymnastics, as part of the "very old" sequence of ''danda'' exercises. Norman Sjoman suggests that it is one of the poses adopted into modern yoga in Mysore by Krishnam ...
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