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Yog Aasan in the West is commonly practiced as physical exercise or alternative medicine, rather than as the spiritual self-mastery meditation skill and is called Yog. It is more associated with in the East.

In the Yog Sutras, Patanjali suggests that the only requirement for practicing aasans is that it be “steady and comfortable”. The body is held poised with the practitioner experiencing no discomfort. When control of the body is mastered, practitioners are believed to free themselves from the duality of heat / cold, joy / grief, hunger / satiety, which is the first step toward the non attachment that relieves suffering. This non-dualistic perspective comes from the Sankhya School of the Himalayan Masters.

Traditional Practices for Performing Aasans

Listed below are traditional practices for performing aasans:

 The stomach should be empty.

 Force or pressure should not be used, and the body should not tremble.

 Lower the head and other parts of the body slowly; in particular, raised heels should be lowered slowly.