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- noun Plural form of
posture .
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Examples
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A yoga practice comprised only of postures is an exercise routine.
Derek Beres: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude Derek Beres 2010
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The craving of perfection of postures is still a desire, and in yoga the practitioner is attempting to move to a state of mind that is beyond clinging.
Derek Beres: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude Derek Beres 2010
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Sprawled about the bed in postures meaningless to the point of obscenity.
Precipitations 1920
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As the postures are all quite clearly explained, try any exercises you desire in any order you choose.
Nora Zelevansky: Home Sweat Home Nora Zelevansky 2010
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The branch of the system which deals with method and discipline is called Kriyâ-yoga and in later works we also find the expression Haṭha-yoga, which is specially used to designate mechanical means (such as postures, purification, etc.) prescribed for the attainment of various mental states.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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i am endlessly amused & sickened ... no easy trick - by people rushing to kiss Lugars ass, ignoring the fact hes got blood & guts up to his armpits from his statesmanlike "postures" during the Carter/Reagan/Bush I mass murder in Central America.
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According to Locke, dance teachers should eliminate “apish affected postures” and “the jigging part” that leads children away from “perfect graceful carriage.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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It shows in the tired drought lines of our faces and in the uninspired, non-fluidic postures of our bodies.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Excessive and lustful kissing, lustful embraces, suggestive postures and gestures, are not to be shown . . .
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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* Explore the foundations and simple graces of asana (postures).
Show & Tell # 5-Zine of the Week « in other words [a portland feminist and queer bookstore and blog] 2010
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