Asana And Pranayama

As per my knowledge  Yoga, Asana does not mean a specific posture, but means sitting. It means, mainly, sitting for meditation. Asana means a meditative seat.The way in which you sit for meditation should be such that the body is motionless and steady and it should not cause any discomfort to the body; otherwise, it cannot be maintained for a long time.When the posture is comfortable that you can maintain it for a long life.Maintaining the Asana for a long time is of paramount importance to facilitate proper meditation. Yoga is science and it help to prepare the person for meditation physically and mentally.So, a comfortable posture is a very important thing.Each Yoga teacher likes to think that he has discovered many of these forgotten postures and so there are Yoga teachers who have produced books containing 200 postures, 250 postures and so on.As per basic Yogasana book has mentioned this fact steady posture, the practitioner develops Titiksha, the power of endurance.