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asana

[ ah-suh-nuh ]

noun

  1. any of the postures in a yoga exercise.


asana

/ ˈɑːsənə /

noun

  1. any of various postures in yoga See also hatha yoga


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Word History and Origins

Origin of asana1

First recorded in 1810–15; from Sanskrit āsanam “(act of) sitting, sitting position,” from the Sanskrit root ās- “to sit, be seated”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of asana1

Sanskrit

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Example Sentences

For project-organizing software company Asana, it took Sutton months and hundreds and hundreds of names before they decided on Asana.

Find the editorial calendar tool that works best for you and that you’ll actually use — whether it’s Trello, Asana, Monday, or just plain Google Sheets.

The company uses a video API to let each person take up little orbs of space, and adds integrations of platforms like Google Docs, YouTube, Asana or GitHub.

Another online task manager for businesses, Asana was founded by former Facebookers—including Dustin Moskovitz, a Harvard dormmate of Mark Zuckerberg’s—at the end of 2008.

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The surge was led by the multibillion IPOs of companies such as Snowflake, Palantir, Asana and Unity.

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Asana is the aspect of yoga that involves bending the body into forms; it is the yoga of wall calendars and gyms across the land.

Here is your hallowed asana- blanket, where you daily sat to fill your expanding heart with God!

Pliny certainly saw the lost writings of King Juba, and in them he met the word Asana.

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