Ashtanga Namaskara
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Ashtanga Namaskara (
Surya Namaskar sequence in modern yoga as exercise, where the body is balanced on eight points of contact with the floor: feet, knees, chest, chin and hands
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Etymology and origins
The name comes from the Sanskrit words अष्ट asht, eight, अङ्ग anga, limb, and नमस्कार namaskar, bowing or greeting.[3]
The asana is unknown in medieval
Ashtanga Yoga, rather than supposing that the name of the system somehow came from the 2,000 year old Ashtanga, the Eight Limbs of Patanjali's system of yoga.[6]
Description
Ashtanga Namaskara is a prone posture with eight parts of the body in contact with the ground: both feet, both knees, both hands, the chest, and either the chin[7] or the forehead.[8] The hands are below the shoulders, the elbows bent.[8][7]
The pose has been used as an alternative to
Surya Namaskar sequence, considered suitable for practitioners lacking the strength to do the usual pose; arguments against this usage include compression of the lower back and stress on the shoulder joint.[9] It was used in the early Surya Namaskar of Pant Pratinidhi, with the forehead touching the ground.[5]
References
- ^ Mallinson, James (9 December 2011). "A Response to Mark Singleton's Yoga Body by JamesMallinson". Academia.edu. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
This is a revised version of a paper given at the American Academy of Religions conference in San Francisco on 19 November 2011.
- ^ "Eight-Limbed Pose Ashtangasana". Yoga Basics. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Ashtanga Namaskara – Eight Limbed Salutation". Yogic Way of Life. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ^ Pratinidhi 1938, pp. 113–115.
- ^ a b Pratinidhi 1938, p. 51.
- ^ Singleton 2010, pp. 205–206.
- ^ a b Saraswati 1996, p. 167.
- ^ a b Lidell 1983, p. 34.
- ^ Sugerman, Leah. "Why Knees, Chest, Chin Is Not a Chaturanga Alternative". Yoga International. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
Sources
- Lidell, Lucy; The )
- Pratinidhi, Pant(1938) [1929]. The Ten-Point Way to Health=Surya Namaskars... Edited with an introduction by Louise Morgan. J. M. Dent.
- ISBN 978-81-86336-14-4. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2015-08-07. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- OCLC 318191988.
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