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Check as many poses as you have done! Or write what I have missed below...There are so many poses.

What Pose Can You Do? multiple choice
	Downward Dog
	Upward Dog
	Cobra
	Tree
	Plank
	Chatarunga
	Sideways Plank
	Wheel/Upward Bow
	Shoulder Stand
	Headstand
	Camel
	Crow
	Boat
	Locust
	Scorpion
	Pigeon
	Bridge
	Eagle
	Triangle and Side Angle
	Plow
Votes accepted starting: 06/28/08 05:54 PM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

Wow i didn't know there were so many, whats the easiest and whats the hardest pose. some poses don't look human ;o) How many can you do Jilly?

You have to understand, I'm a lot more comfortable with some of them than others. The tree is always a challenge for me, sometimes I have no problem and sometimes my balance is totally off. And I have only accomplished the upward bow twice in my life, but I keep trying! It took me a year to manage the eagle, and longer than that to do the pigeon without moaning. And the sideways plank is hard for me because I don't have a whole lot of arm strength, so there is considerable shaking going on.
You don't mention any of the seated forward folds; those took me several years to develop the flexibility to get my nose all the way down to my knee, but I had more than 65 years of spinal rigidity to overcome.
The reverse triangle took a while, too. Only recently have I been able to do that without falling over or hanging on to furniture.
Then there's the whole Warrior series. I can do Warrior 1 and 2 and sometimes 3 & 4, depending on the state of my balancing.
That's what is great about yoga, there's always more to learn and perfect.

I think the first half yes, the second half no except the eagle - and I only tried the eagle because you all were posting about it Interestingly I didn't have much problem with the eagle, but I am relatively thin and I think that's a big part of it. My boyfriend is thicker and his body parts just don't wrap like that.

The eagle has more to do with the state of your hip tendons than the size of your legs, although there's a limit there! My hips were very tight so it took a long time for them to loosen up enough for me to do the eagle and the pigeon with ease. For the same reason it has been taking me forever to do a straddle split wide enough to be able to touch the floor with the top of my head. Not there yet! And it is frustrating for me to watch one chubby little woman in my yoga class whose hips are SO flexible that she can fling her legs around in ways that I can still only dream of.

Okay, so for me, I can do all these poses except crow, handstand and scorpion.

I had a dream the other night that I did the handstand and that it was easy and fun. I really WANT to try it, but need a good space to do it and a spotter and want to be all warmed up first. I don't want to hurt myself. But it felt SO GOOD in my dream.

Scorpion looks the hardest of all. I see that someone here has been able to do it. Who is that? How did you work up to it? Don't you have to be able to do crow first?

I want to try crow but i think that one also needs a spotter. I have not really given it a decent try - a few halfhearted attempts.

I try to do an upward bow and some sideways planks once a week just to stay with it.

I know there are so many more poses, and that I did not add the forward bends and warrior poses, but one of the limitations of this poll is that you have to guess how many options you need and i guessed at 20. I should have picked 50!

Rosie, the easiest poses are corpse and mountain and most people can do cobra and child's pose.

The hardest ones, on this list at least, are handstand, scorpion, camel, wheel/upward bow, eagle, sideways planks, shoulder stand and plow. But really, it's hard to say. For balance-challenged people tree is hard. For strength-challenged the basic plank and chatarunga are difficult. So it's hard to give an absolute answer.

OK I *think* I can do pigeon. Like this?

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My favourite's not there: King Dancer

The pose I still haven't managed fully yet is hanumanasana - part of the pose involves full splits. And I find the strength based poses harder to do than the flexibility or balance poses. Sideways plank took a few sessions.

Oh this one?

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