Standing Head to Knee. A step by step guide.
What is Standing Heading to Knee ?
The Standing Head to Knee Pose is a balancing and strengthening posture in the Bikram Hot Yoga Series called in Sanskrit Dandayamana Janushirsasana. The breakdown of the name Dandayamana Janushirsasasana in Sankrit is Dandayamana which means standing. If you want to break down Dandayamana a little further in Sanskrit, the meaning of Danda is "Stick," and Yamana has the definition of "Restraint."
Janushirsasasana is broken into three parts in Sanskrit: Janu means knee, Shira stands for head, and Asana means posture. The easiest way to understand this posture for beginners is to break it down into three separate parts. We are going to try and explain this pose for beginners to easily understand.