e/Ardha Candrāsana

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has gloss	eng: Ardha Candrāsana (Sanskrit translation: Ardha means half. Candra or Chandra means moon or luminous, as in the light from the moon) is a yoga posture. The moon is symbolic in yoga mythology. Hatha, as in hatha yoga, is sometimes taken to mean sun and moon from the syllables “ha” and “tha” representing solar and lunar energies. Yoga means yoke, so hatha yoga is a binding or yoking together of solar and lunar energies. Chandra is also the golden moon god known as Soma. Soma is the elixir of immortality drunk by the gods. So in doing the posture Ardha Chandrasana (half moon pose), one tunes into the unconscious energy of the moon which changes by waxing and waning.
lexicalization	eng: Ardha Candrāsana
instance of	(noun) (Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga) asana