Have you ever wondered why Yoga āsana are named after animals?

We have a whole bunch of them: the cobra, the peacock, of course the dogs, we also have a camel, a fish, and a dove…

When I started with Yoga over 20 years ago i never spent a lot of thoughts on this. I giggled a bit when I heard them the first time, but I didn’t really think about it. After getting used to their names, I put a little effort into pronouncing them correctly in Sanskrit, but that was it…

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