Assignment: Physical Education and Yoga, Minor—3, Semester—4
आसन का अर्थ एवं महत्त्व Asana An āsana ( Sanskrit : आसन ) is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose , and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise , to any type of position, adding reclining, standing , inverted, twisting, and balancing poses. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali define "asana" as स्थिरसुखमासनम् sthira sukham āsanam "[a position that] is steady and comfortable". [ Patanjali mentions the ability to sit for extended periods as one of the eight limbs of his system . Asanas are also called yoga poses or yoga postures in English. The 10th or 11th century Goraksha Sataka and the 15th century Hatha Yoga Pradipika identify 84 asanas. Asanas were claimed to provide both spiritual and physical benefits in medieval hatha yoga texts. More recently, studies have provided evidence that they imp...
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