Kukkutasana
Kukkutasana (Sanskrit: कुक्कुटासन; IAST: Kukkuṭāsana), Cockerel Pose,[1] or Rooster Posture[2] is an arm-balancing asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, derived from the seated Padmasana, lotus position.Tulasana (Sanskrit: तुलासन; IAST: Tulāsana) is from Sanskrit tula (तुला) meaning "balance";[10] it appears in the 20th century in Swami Yogesvarananda's 1970 First Steps to Higher Yoga (spelt Tulasana),[11] and in B. K. S. Iyengar's 1966 Light on Yoga (spelt Tolasana).Norman Sjoman suggests that it is one of the poses adopted into modern yoga in Mysore by Krishnamacharya.[18] In Tulasana, the legs and feet are crossed in Padmasana, as in Kukkutasana, but the arms are held straight beneath the shoulders, with the palms on the floor on either side of the hips.The body is elevated and held up by the hands, fitting the descriptive term lola, meaning "dangling like an earring" or "a pendant".
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