Sanskrit

Asana…  one of the eight limbs of aSTaNgayoga — Asana is the word, ancient, and modern, that is applied to yoga postures and typically translated as “seat” even in the Sanskrit dictionary.

To be sure, the development of a proper seat is essential to meditation and the yoga postures do that, as well as create a seat, a base, for traversing the 4 aims of life.

However I think one can go deeper and perform an Asana on “Asana”:

“sana” means “gain or act of presenting”

“A” means the opposite of that

so Asana really means a release, a going in.

Renay