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Mayūrāsana () or Peacock pose is a hand-balancing asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise with the body held horizontal over the hands. It is one of the oldest non-seated asanas, described in the 10th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mayurasana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.