Simhasana (Sanskrit: सिंहासन; IAST: Siṁhāsana) or Lion Pose is an asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise.SimhasanaFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumptonavigationJumptosearchAkneelingpostureinhathayogaSimhasanaThisarticlecontainsIndictext.Withoutproperrenderingsupport,youmayseequestionmarksorboxes,misplacedvowelsormissingconjunctsinsteadofIndictext.Simhasana(Sanskrit:सिंहासन;IAST:Siṁhāsana)orLionPose[1]isanasanainhathayogaandmodernyogaasexercise.Contents1Etymologyandorigins2Description3Seealso4References5Furtherreading6ExternallinksEtymologyandorigins[edit]"Narasimhasana"fromanillustratedmanuscriptoftheJogaPradipika,1830ThenamecomesfromtheSanskritwordssimha(सिंह),meaning"lion",andāsana(आसन),meaning"posture"or"seat".[2]TheposehasalsobeennamedNarasimhasana,[3]fromSanskritनरसिंहNarasimha,alion-manavatarofthegodVishnu.[4]ThepostureisdescribedinthetenthcenturyVimānārcanākalpa.[5]Description[edit]Theasanaresemblesaseatedlion,hencethename.ThepractitionerkneelsasinVirasanaandmakesafacialexpressiontoresemblealion.Seealso[edit]ListofasanasReferences[edit]^"YogaJournal-LionPose".Retrieved2011-07-03.^Sinha,S.C.(1996).DictionaryofPhilosophy.AnmolPublications.p. 18.ISBN 978-81-7041-293-9.^Bühnemann,Gudrun(2018).84AsanasinYoga.D.K.Printworld.p. 59(plate68).^Williams,GeorgeM.(2008).HandbookofHinduMythology.OxfordUniversityPress.p. 223.ISBN 978-0-19-533261-2.^Mallinson,James;Singleton,Mark(2017).RootsofYoga.PenguinBooks.pp. 100–101.ISBN 978-0-241-25304-5.OCLC 928480104.Furtherreading[edit]Iyengar,B.K.S.(1October2005).IllustratedLightOnYoga.HarperCollins.ISBN 978-81-7223-606-9.Retrieved9April2011.Saraswati,SwamiJanakananda(1February1992).Yoga,TantraandMeditationinDailyLife.WeiserBooks.ISBN 978-0-87728-768-1.Retrieved11April2011.Saraswati,SwamiSatyananda(1August2003).AsanaPranayamaMudraBandha.NesmaBooksIndia.ISBN 978-81-86336-14-4.Retrieved9April2011.Saraswati,SwamiSatyananda(January2004).ASystematicCourseintheAncientTantricTechniquesofYogaandKriya.NesmaBooksIndia.ISBN 978-8