Uttanasana is the pose that comes directly after Urdhva Hastasana in Sun Salutation, which I only really registered as a sequence once I stopped treating the whole flow as one continuous blur to g…
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Upward Salute is the pose I used to blow through without thinking, treating it as the two seconds between Tadasana and the actual stretch I was waiting for in a Sun Salutation. It took me an embarras…
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Back and biceps is Tuesday and Friday on my actual split, and it took me embarrassingly long to realize the two muscle groups are basically a package deal. Almost every pulling exercise recruits your…
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Frog Pose is the one posture on this site where I actually have good news about the history, for once. After spending time on Downward Dog and Trikonasana finding out both traced back to 20th-centur…
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Trikonasana was the pose that finally made me stop assuming every yoga posture with a Sanskrit name had to be centuries old. It's a fair assumption to make, and I made it confidently for months,…
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Bridge Pose was the first yoga posture where I actually recognized the exact movement pattern from my gym training before a teacher had finished explaining it. The shape is close enough to a bodyweig…
Read full post about Setu Bandhasana (Bridge Pose): Steps & Real Benefits