Yoga Posters

After you have been practicing yoga for awhile, and you have taken a few classes and gotten a feel for how to do the different asanas, you may want to start doing yoga at home. There are thousands of books on the topic of yoga that have different poses that you can follow, but when you are actually doing yoga practice it can be difficult to hold the book open. Also, the asanas may not be in the order that you want to do them in.

Yoga posters are a great device for solving this dilemma. A yoga poses poster is a large, laminated poster that has several different yoga poses depicted on it. You can hang the poster up in the room where you will be doing your practice so that you can see each pose as you perform it yourself.

Yoga postures posters are also a useful tool for yoga teachers. If you are teaching in a studio you can hang the poster on the wall so that the students can see each pose properly executed. Under each pose they will see both the Sanskrit and English name for each pose.

You can find yoga and Pilates posters at yoga supply shops, sporting goods stores and many online web stores that sell other yoga supplies.

There are also yoga posters that are more decorative art than instructional. They can be framed and hung around your home or yoga studio, and they have inspirational themes, and beautiful photographs of the human form performing various yoga poses, or simply in the seated meditation pose.
Some yoga posters also have inspirational quotes or phrases below the picture.

A yoga pose poster would make an excellent gift for someone who is just starting their yoga practice, or for someone who has years of experience.

There is a yoga poses poster that shows 908 different yoga poses. This poster was produced by Sri Yogi Dharma Mittra in the 1970's and it has not lost its popularity.

The OM poster captures images of the OM symbol taken from locations all over India. Photographed by Martin Branding, this beautiful poster comes laminated to protect the image.

The Ashtanga Lotus Flower Poster contains detailed descriptions of the postures and the breathing that accompanies each pose.

The 84 Classic Asanas in the tradition of Bikram Choudhury depicts the 84 poses that form the basis of a complete hatha yoga practice.