{"id":1101,"date":"2023-11-13T10:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drishtiyogaschool.com\/blog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2025-06-07T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:47:34","slug":"chair-pose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drishtiyogaschool.com\/blog\/chair-pose\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAIR POSE \/ \u00a0UTKATASANA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chair Pose is known as “Utkatasana”. The Sanskrit word \u201cUtkata\u201d means wild, intense, or fierce and \u201cAsana\u201d means posture. It is said that Krishnamacharya <\/strong>originated the modern chair-like pose after the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The posture is designed to be seated on an imaginary chair. This posture is not an easy chair but a substitute for a throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dated in the history of India, chairs were not commonly used, most people would be seated on the floor, whereas the Royals would have elevated chairs or thrones.
This elevation made it easy to have an act of seeing and being seen between the king and his subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The philosophical aspect of Utkatasana<\/strong>, the Epic of Ramayana states that lord Rama the ruler of Ayodhya was sent to forest for 14years for Vanvas.
During that period Lord Rama\u2019s sandals were placed on the throne making a statement: \u201cRama is absent, but I would perform my best during his absence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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