The Transformative Symbols of Yoga

Each yoga asana is in its essence a symbol:  its name is by no means arbitrary, and indeed hints at its inner meaning, whether it is an animal, plant, bird or geometrical shape.

Moreover, not only is the asana a symbol which may be reflected upon intellectually, but the practitioner is invited to ‘enter it’ and to experience it organically and existentially in the timeless here and now and indeed to become one with it, “the dancer becoming one with the dance” to paraphrase Yeats.