ASANAS
Stage three, ASANA (right posture) instructs how the body should be prepared for meditation [YS 2,46].
It is the first stage of physical ascetism. Its aim is to immobilize the body with the only
goal of helping concentration.
goal of helping concentration.
Their purpose is NOT, as is commonly believed, to confer health, fitness and relaxation to the body but to be a physical support for meditation. Each asana has a fundamental purpose.
Padmasana (the lotus posture) for instance, ensures that the spiritual cord, the sushumna, is in a vertical position
to facilitate the upward movement of the subtle female kundalini energies [shakti] awakened in the muladhara chakra at the base of the spine, through five other psychic energy centres to unite with the male power centre [shiva] located in the forehead chakra, climaxing in the sahasrara or crown chakra at the top of one’s head in a cosmic orgasm.
to facilitate the upward movement of the subtle female kundalini energies [shakti] awakened in the muladhara chakra at the base of the spine, through five other psychic energy centres to unite with the male power centre [shiva] located in the forehead chakra, climaxing in the sahasrara or crown chakra at the top of one’s head in a cosmic orgasm.
Each chakra [lit. wheel] or spinning energy centre corresponds to a Hindu guardian deity and is associated with its mantra and governing cosmogonical element as elaborated here [Chakra/ Guardian deity/ Mantra/ Cosmogonical element]:muladhara/ Brahma/ lam/ Earth; svadishtana/ Vishnu/ vam/ Water; manipura/ Maharudra/ ram/ Fire; anahata/
Ishvara/ yam/ Air; vishuddha/ Sadashiva/ ham/ Ether; ajna/ Shiva/ om or aum; sahasrara or crown chakra.Once kundalini reaches the last chakra, it returns to its primordial union with the impersonal Ultimate Reality. 
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