CORPSE POSE

摘要

In 35 years of practicing asana, only rarely have I heard Savasana, yoga’s final relaxation pose, called by its literal name: Corpse Pose. Whoever thought of this name for a pose that so many list as their favorite was definitely not thinking about marketing it to future Western yoga practitioners. The person who came up with the Sanskrit name for Corpse Pose likely understood life and death differently from the way we do in the West. Yes, we all know death is inevitable, but we mostly don’t think it’s imminent—until it is.