{"id":2403,"date":"2020-03-15T17:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoga-stile-im-vergleich.de\/2020\/03\/15\/what-does-asana-actually-mean\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:43:24","slug":"what-does-asana-actually-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoga-stile-im-vergleich.de\/en\/2020\/03\/15\/what-does-asana-actually-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does \u0101sana actually mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The\nterm \u0101sana describes a posture or position1<\/sup><\/a>.\nIn Raja Yoga, also known as Royal Yoga, \u0101sana\nis the third link of an eight-stage path. Patanjali wrote the so-called Yoga Sutras around 2000 years ago\n, in which he describes the philosophy and practice of yoga in concise\nsentences. This work\nforms the basis of practice for many yoga schools today\nand is also commonly known as ashtanga yoga, which can be translated as\nstructure or sequence of steps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the original sense, however,\n\u0101sana does not refer to the body positions that are so\nwidespread today, but rather\ninitially refers to a certain sitting posture on the floor. In the\nyoga sutras, \u0101sana is described relatively briefly in three verses.2<\/sup><\/a> <\/p>\n\n

II, 46: sthira-sukham-\u0101sanam <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The sitting position is stable and comfortable.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n

The \u0101sana was by no means a method for optimizing the body, but an important basis for further meditation practice, in which the body found its natural place. On the one hand, it should be experienced as stable and firm, as belonging to matter, not imposing itself and, on the other hand, expressing a certain lightness. <\/p>\n\n

This description can also be translated as “truly happy position”.<\/p>\n\n

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II, 47: prayatna-\u015baithilya-ananta-sam\u0101patti-bhy\u0101m<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

It is characterized by freedom from tension and an orientation towards the infinite.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n

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On the one hand, the tensions can refer to physical conditions, or more broadly to mental tensions, which are naturally given by the earthly world and accompany people simply by being in the world.<\/p>\n\n

However, as the transient earthly world and thus the body found their corresponding intuitive classification, the consciousness was able to align itself more clearly with the opposite pole of the infinite. This movement can also be viewed the other way round, in that the orientation towards the infinite creates freedom from tensions. The withdrawal of material, earthly tensions is therefore connected with the orientation of consciousness towards a spiritual dimension. <\/p>\n\n

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III, 48: tato dva\u1e45dva-an-abhigh\u0101ta\u1e25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

This attitude allows freedom from polarities and freedom from attacks.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n

The earthly world is characterized to a certain extent by duality, which finds its expression in the most diverse phenomena. Man also finds himself in this field of tension as long as he does not rise above it by virtue of his consciousness and approach a greater dimension that is free of earthly polarities. <\/p>\n\n

This is the state we strive for by implementing and practicing the further steps of the eight-step path. The consciousness therefore does not identify with the body, with the transient, but instead focuses freely on a non-earthly, spiritual dimension. This orientation, in turn, leads people from ignorance to knowledge, from darkness to light, from non-being to being. Through this realization, people can face circumstances in a fundamentally different way and confront circumstances, tensions and attacks of all kinds without becoming entangled in them. <\/p>\n\n

1<\/a> Heinz Grill,Die Vergeistigung des Leibes, Lammers-Koll, 2004<\/p>\n\n

2 http:\/\/yoga-praxis.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2<\/a> 015\/12\/Yoga-Sutra.pdf<\/p>\n\n

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The term \u0101sana describes a posture or position1. In Raja Yoga, also known as Royal Yoga, \u0101sana is the third link of an eight-stage path. Patanjali wrote the so-called Yoga Sutras around 2000 years ago , in which he describes the philosophy and practice of yoga in concise sentences. This work forms the basis of … <\/p>\n

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