In yoga, the wheel pose is also called chakrasana or urdhva dhanurasana in Sanskrit. It's sometimes called the upward-facing bow pose as well. Regardless of its name, wheel pose is an ...

One of the most sought-after yoga poses is the beautifully Instagrammable backbend, but this somewhat precarious position is by no means the easiest to achieve. With a yoga wheel, however, you can not ...

Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article about backbends first appeared in the November-December 1986 ...