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Surya Namaskar
Sun Salutation, also called Surya Namaskar or Salute to the Sun (, ), is a practice in yoga as exercise incorporating a flow sequence of some twelve linked asanas. The asana sequence was first recorded as yoga in the early 20th century, though similar exercises were in use in India before that, for example Indian wrestling, among wrestlers. The basic sequence involves moving from a standing position into Downward dog, Downward and Upward Dog poses and then back to the standing position, but many variations are possible. The set of 12 asanas is dedicated to the Hinduism, Hindu solar deity, Surya. In some Indian traditions, the positions are each associated with a different mantra, and with seed sounds or bīja. The precise origins of the Sun Salutation are uncertain, but the sequence was made popular in the early 20th century by Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi, the Rajah of Aundh State, Aundh, and adopted into yoga by Krishnamacharya in the Mysore Palace, where the Sun Salu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downward Dog
Downward Dog Pose, Downward-facing Dog Pose, or Downdog, also called Adho Mukha Svanasana (; ), is an inversion asana in yoga as exercise. It is often practised as part of a flowing sequence of poses, especially Surya Namaskar, the Salute to the Sun. The asana does not have formally named variations, but several playful variants are used to assist beginning practitioners to become comfortable in the pose. Downward Dog stretches the hamstring and calf muscles in the backs of the legs, and builds strength in the shoulders. Some popular sites have advised against it during pregnancy, but an experimental study of pregnant women found it beneficial. Downward Dog has been called "deservedly one of yoga's most widely recognized yoga poses" and the "quintessential yoga pose". As such it is often the asana of choice when yoga is depicted in film, literature, and advertising. The pose has frequently appeared in Western culture, including in the titles of novels, a painting, and a televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoga Teacher Training In India (cropped)
Yoga (UK: , US: ; 'yoga' ; ) is a group of Asana, physical, mental, and Spirituality#Asian traditions, spiritual practices or disciplines that originated with Yoga (philosophy), its own philosophy in History of India, ancient India, aimed at controlling body and mind to attain various Soteriology, salvation goals, as practiced in the Hinduism, Hindu, Jainism, Jain, and Buddhism, Buddhist traditions. Yoga may have pre-Vedic period, Vedic origins, but is first attested in the early first millennium BCE. It developed as various traditions in the eastern Ganges basin drew from a common body of practices, including Vedas, Vedic elements. Yoga-like practices are mentioned in the ''Rigveda'' and a number of early Upanishads, but systematic yoga concepts emerge during the fifth and sixth centuries BCE in ancient India's sannyasa, ascetic and Śramaṇa movements, including Jainism and Buddhism. The ''Yoga Sutras of Patanjali'', the classical text on Hindu yoga, samkhya-based but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pant Pratinidhi 1928 Surya Namaskar Sequence
Pant may refer to: Clothing * Pants or trousers, an article of outer clothing worn on the lower half of the body, it comes in a variety of shapes like narrow, slim fit, baggy pants and many others. * Underpants, an item of underwear Places * Pant, Denbighshire, Wales; a township of Llysfaen * Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales *Pant, Shropshire, England * Pant, Wrexham, Wales; an electoral ward in Wrexham County Borough *River Pant, upper part of the River Blackwater, Essex, England Other uses * Pant (surname), a North Indian and Nepalese surname * Pant, a horror character created by Indian writer Narayan Dharap Narayan Dharap (27 August 1925 – 18 August 2008) was an Indian writer, primarily of horror fiction in the Marathi language. He wrote more than 100 books and was the first Marathi author to bring H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos to Marathi r ... * Annette Island Airport (ICAO: PANT) See also * Pant railway station (other) * Panting (other) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
