Other forms: asanas
An asana is a specific yoga position. Your favorite asana in yoga class might be "corpse pose" at the end, when you just lie there and breathe.
Anyone who's taken a yoga class is familiar with the term asana, which simply means "pose" or "position." There are 84 classic asanas in yoga, and even more variations on them. When a yoga class does an asana together, the students position their bodies in a particular way, often holding the asana as they breathe. In Sanskrit, āsana means "seat" or "manner of sitting."