1.Therefore, many Yoga asanas are named after mammals, birds, sea creatures, insects, and reptiles
2.Like many other Yoga asanas the Swan Posture consists of two opposite movements which I have demonstrated in figures 15 and 16, page 61
3.Yogamudra, one of the basic Yoga asanas, is essentially a cleansing exercise, both of the system and of the mind
4.This is one of the most advanced Yoga asanas called Oorhwapadmasana or the HEADSTAND LOTUS POSE
5.Having just described, in this chapter on disorders of the respiratory tract, one of the most difficult of the Yoga asanas, I will now describe a really easy one which will present not the slightest difficulty
6.This is one of the most spectacular of the Yoga asanas and is for more advanced students
7.As with many of the Yoga asanas, this posture has a variation for advanced students only
8.Ideally all Yoga asanas should be performed in the open air in order to draw into the lungs the maximum amount of fresh air
9.One of the basic Yoga asanas, it stretches the vertebrae to the maximum, and subjects the abdomen and its organs and muscles to a powerful massage
10.Practice all the Yoga asanas described in the chapter on constipation, and in particular practice the water-drinking habits of the Yogis and the relaxing and contracting movements known as Uddiyani
11.This ridding your body of excessive waste, and the practice of Yoga asanas and breathing exercises will go a long way towards sheering that superfluous fat from your body and here is a Yoga asana which will help you on your way
12.This being the last of the so-called ‘slimming1 Yoga asanas, I should like to lend a helping hand to those of you who, with the best will in the world to practice Yoga and grow slim, feel that you cannot find the time to practice
13.In view of the fact that Yoga asanas should be done on an empty stomach it is usually convenient to perform your practice schedule first thing in the morning when you get out of bed
14.You may feel you are too sleepy to do them then but you will find that some of the asanas are very bracing owing to their stimulating effect on the nervous system and soon give you a wide-awake feeling
15.Women who practice a course of asanas systematically, with interest and attention, will have wonderful health and vitality
16.I hope they will give patient hearing to my earnest and sincere prayer and start practicing the asanas from the very day they read the Yoga lessons
17.OF all the gems in the rich collection of Yoga asanas there shines forth one which, in sheer beauty, symmetry and grace, outshines all others except, perhaps, the serene Lotus, that impenetrable fortress of repose
18.Complicated? Yes, I’m afraid it is at first, but once you master the movements you will find it is likely to become one of your favourite asanas
19.combined practices of asanas, breathing, and meditation
20.Pranayama is best practiced straight after asanas without
21.Now let's look at some of the asanas, or positions, that are central to a yoga
22.When treating a tension headache with asanas and breathing, it's
23.Asanas, Pranayama, recitation of the Names of the Lord, singing hymns and prayer, study of philosophical books will produce harmonious vibrations in the physical, vital, mental, intellectual and blissful sheaths respectively
24.Francis did several yogic asanas, postures that included the Tree, the Dancer, the Camel, Upward Dog, Downward Dog, the Sun Salutation, and the Moon Salutation
25.what asanas could he perform ? But despite all such physical
26.Pranayama is best practiced straight after asanas without breaking
27.Now let’s look at some of the asanas, or positions, that are central to a yoga
28.When treating a tension headache with asanas and breathing, it's important to
29.Asanas are static postures with diff erent degrees of complexity that
30.verted asanas, compressive and combined asanas that produce a quite
31.asanas eff ect upon individual’s psychological state that has shown that
32.In yoga there are following types of exercises: asanas, pranayamas,
33.practicing an insignificant number of asanas, with no difficult ones, that
34.a list of 11 asanas for body strengthening and 4 meditative ones
35.Asanas are not the ultimate goal, but an intermediate instrument
36.«Gheranda samhita» gives 32 asanas, which are still considered as
37.Most of asanas activate many muscles, in particular those that are
38.the hydraulic aspect of asanas gives us hints on how to do them: as each
39.respected, asanas become at the best the ordinary fitness for muscles
40.That is why most of asanas change hydrostatic pressure on certain
41.Psychosomatic influence of asanas uses another mechanism —
42.Anyone who practiced asanas, could notice that unlike Patanjali
43.It concerns asanas, pranayamas, as well as the rest of tech-
44.Some asanas significantly change the intensity of blood circulation
45.So there are the following energy mechanisms of asanas influence:
46.Stretching asanas influence our meridians, located on the for-
47.Actually there are much more asanas
48.You can also make combined asanas, having
49.hatha yoga; using them practitioner will know, how to construct asanas
50.It’s interesting to note that in asanas, described in «Hatha Yoga
51.This means that meditations, like asanas, should be practiced
52.In asanas the
53.fect from asanas will diminish
54.Second group of asanas
55.Mastering this group of asanas should be done after having mas-
56.tered asanas of the first group, as well as when the physiological effect
57.In the yoga complex these asanas should be done after the postures of
58.We should proceed to pranayamas after having practices asanas
59.structure, after it was purified and formed by asanas
60.asanas (for beginners I recommend only this order), but the «mixed»
61.breaks between asanas: to sit, to think, to recover your breath and con-
62.Groups of asanas are chosen to include all elements
63.understanding that now with the help of asanas, pranayamas, mudras,
64.As it was said above, asanas are not an end in itself of yoga, but
65.doing it in one of asanas
66.both in asanas (then you’ll see that it works, if an unpleasant symptom
67.Being in asanas some practitioners feel some pain and want to
68.Asanas and pranayamas, which were influencing greatly the
69.To neutralise this adaptation we use advanced variations of asanas
70.by their energy effect and sensations, these asanas are similar to the
71.plicated asanas will only exhaust inside reserve of the body
72.gether with asanas and pranayamas
73.The principle of cleansing MTM is the same we used in asanas: to
74.patient) are compensated by asanas with the opposite action
75.As it was already said, there are six categories of asanas: stretch-
76.sides asanas can be divided into four groups according to the direction
77.It’s easy to notice that asanas become more intensive with every
78.Asanas in our interpretation (there can be others), corre-
79.Strengthening asanas firm us and correspond to Earth element
80.tures, these asanas are the less needed for the body
81.As it was said above, pranayamas secure the effect from asanas,
82.Do a couple of asanas, working out the
83.the idea of the possibility of building up complexes, where asanas and
84.Asanas accompanied with holding breath is the advanced level
85.The effect of asanas, which
86.all the planned asanas
87.of asanas and types of breathing is the same as in static complexes
88.Of course, in asanas not only anterior and posterior middle chan-
89.it makes sense to breathe up in asanas only if they are correctly formed
90.versa, different variations of asanas are needed to work out and energise
91.Hence asanas can be divided into
92.the Yang — of the posterior, but doing all asanas with no regard to the
93.The main reason is the imperfect physical performance of asanas
94.sition in asanas, but it’s fair to notice that
95.ent techniques of the same (by their names) asanas?
96.standing of their principles, you can adjust asanas and yoga complexes
