What Asana mean?

 Asana in Sanskrit means “static position of the body" or also "comfortable position for the body".
At this point I ask you: do you see any connection between what is usually proposed and the original meaning of Asana? If the answer is no, it means that what is required to do is not a Yoga practice..... and then the results that are expected wont be the same! So why teachers call something else Asana? Because they rely on the fact that the participants don't know much about it and therefore they “sell” something different from what it should be.

Asana, as static position, what does it mean? It means to wisely move the body until it reaches a certain position, that is able to stimulate some physical mechanisms as well vital energy energy and character; in order to obtain positive results, it must be given time to all the various mechanisms, to let them have the chance to be influenced and absorb the positive influence that is given in that moment. So it is essential that the body must be stopped, still, to give the right time to the body to work deeply and to benefit to the positive related effects.
Asana, as comfortable position, represent a position in which the body does not create any hassle during the process of the pose: otherwise it would become a source of fight between benefits and pain, a condition that is not harmonic at all! Harmony, as we previously said, is one of the fundamental goals of the system. Asana, the position in which the body is brought to remain still, is neither easy nor difficult, it must be just gradual; step by step the body will improve and acquire features that are not appropriate to deal by forcing methods.