vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Kurmasana (Sanskrit: कूर्मासन; IAST: kūrmāsana), Tortoise Pose, or Turtle Pose is a sitting forward...
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legs straight) Uttanasana (standing forward bend with legs straight) Kurmasana "Tortoise pose" (seated forward bend with arms under straight legs) Bowing...
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Kukkutasana, the cockerel pose, which it calls Thamba āsana; Kurmasana, the turtle pose; Uttana Kurmasana, which it calls Vajrasana; the yoga headstand; and Garbhasana...
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figures (like Matsyendrasana, the sage Matsyendra's pose), or animals (like Kurmasana, tortoise pose), "an overwhelming eighty-three" of Iyengar's asanas have...
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108–9112 Guptāsana Secret 2.20 — — Kukkutāsana Rooster 2.31 1.23 — Kūrmāsana Tortoise 2.32 1.22 — Makarāsana Crocodile 2.40 — — Mandukāsana Frog...
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Cockerel Balancing 7th C. AS 13th C. VS 15th C. HYP 1.23 17th C. GhS 2.31 Kurmasana कूर्मासन Tortoise Sitting Forward bend 7th C. AS Lolasana लोलासन Pendant...
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one of the ten avatars or incarnations of the god Vishnu. The yoga pose Kurmasana is named for the avatar. World Turtles are found in Native American cultures...
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hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise. The pose is identical to Uttana Kurmasana, the inverted tortoise pose, except that the body is on the back in that...
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Purana (16-21) names 18 hatha yoga postures (asanas) including Simhasana, Kurmasana, Kukkutasana, Garudasana and Sirsasana. As the influence of Indian culture...
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his mother and himself from enslavement from Kadru.[citation needed] Kurmasana (Tortoise Posture) is a Yoga posture. 'Panikacchapika' (Sanskrit पाणिकच्छपिका)...
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figures (like Matsyendrasana, the sage Matsyendra's pose), or animals (like Kurmasana, tortoise pose), many of Iyengar's asanas have names that simply describe...
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Garbha Pindasana - another upright pose with a similar arrangement Uttana Kurmasana - a seated forward bending pose with a similar leg position Yoganidra...
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Padmasana and Mayurasana, Gomukhasana, Bhairavasana, Matsyendrasana, Kurmasana, Kraunchasana, Mandukasana, Yoganidrasana, and many names now not in wide...
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Kapali asana 22 Gorakshasana 29 Viparita Karani 66 Narasimhasana 81 Kurmasana 84 Siddhasana Jayataramā 1999. Bühnemann 2007, pp. 28–29, 38–63. Mallinson...
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