What are Yogasanas?
The word asana literally means a posture. Out of the innumerable asanas a body can assume, 84 have been identified as Yogasanas, through which one can transform the body and mind into a possibility for ultimate wellbeing. Yogasanas are not exercises, but rather very subtle processes to manipulate one’s energy in a particular direction.
Yoga is offered as a set of 36 powerful postures, or yogasanas, to enable the system to sustain higher dimensions of energy. This profound science enhances how one thinks, feels, and experiences life. Isha’s program requires no special physical agility or previous experience of yoga. It is not merely physical exercise, but enables a person to flower into his ultimate potential; to naturally achieve a state of health, joy, and bliss. In an untrained state, the human body is a constant manifestation of various levels of compulsiveness. By consciously forming the body into a certain posture, one creates a conducive passage for energy flow that can elevate one’s consciousness. Yogasanas are a way of aligning the inner system and adjusting it to the celestial geometry, thereby becoming in sync with the existence and naturally achieving a chemistry of healthfulness, joyfulness, blissfulness, and above all, balance.
Benefits
In Sadhguru’s Own Words
Sadhguru illuminates the deeper science behind asana practice — why posture is not about exercise, but about alignment with existence.
Sadhguru Spot · isha.sadhguru.org
Sadhguru explains the science of yogasanas — 84 fundamental postures identified as the basis of classical Hatha Yoga. These are not mere physical exercises but subtle energy processes that align the body with the geometry of the cosmos and systematically activate the human energy system.
Formats Available
“The physical posture that we call yoga is just one aspect. It is only relevant and powerful if it comes from a certain understanding of the mechanics of the body — and from that, it becomes a doorway to the beyond.”
— Sadhguru
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