Use "postures" in a sentence

1. Some of the postures have relation to the nervous body and that inner structure of fine nerves, called the 'nadis', which underlie the nervous system

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2. The last of the seated postures I will describe in this chapter is as follows:

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3. The following simple exercise will help to limber up the spine and prepare it for more difficult postures

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4. You may wonder why I have waited until I reached more than half-way through this book before introducing you to this best known of all Yoga postures

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5. And once you have established the habit of doing Yoga postures first thing in the morning it should become as much a part of your routine as having your morning bath or cleaning your teeth

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6. I have said that one is as old as one’s spine and I have described all manner of Yogic postures designed to keep the spine healthy and supple, mainly involving forward and backward bending movements

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7. Then just as suddenly, habit, distraction, and old postures resume and all is as it was before

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8. ” His tone gave no comfort to Harry as he attended carefully to the postures, mannerisms and words of the men before him

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9. practice of the body science, postures which promoted extraordinary balance and flexibility

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10. Hatha yoga is the physical system of postures, breathing, cleansing practices, and other techniques

11. Three vampires stood behind the table, the female agnate and two others I hadn’t seen before, their indolent expressions at odds with the tension their postures betrayed

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12. Their sparkling eyes and cheery postures indicated they were happy with their car and their driver so far today

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13. eyebrows as he observed the same old postures of discomfort revealed by his former overseer

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14. Men looming over her with violence mirrored in their postures, stinking of sweat and lust and alcohol, her dread magnifying their frightfulness

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15. His five followers are close by, themselves sitting in meditative postures, as starved and bedraggled as he

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16. Perfecting the postures in hatha yoga has two objectives:

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17. You can do postures when the body feels stiff, tense,

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18. When you are at the dinner table or at a service, you can follow the socially expected postures for prayer

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19. Postures associated with negative feelings will trigger negative feelings

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20. body in postures of apology at Church in the years since, and Church had let it go, the

21. ―There is one method of Yoga in which neither postures nor techniques of concentration and meditation are involved

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22. The scolding was silent, for the boy didn’t speak but simply adopted body postures that suggested he was a bit authoritarian in his manner

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23. Westerners think primarily of sitting still or, worse yet, configuring the physical body into the shape of a pretzel, as the proper postures for meditation

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24. Francis did several yogic asanas, postures that included the Tree, the Dancer, the Camel, Upward Dog, Downward Dog, the Sun Salutation, and the Moon Salutation

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25. Especially let him do nothing in the way of changing times and modes of worship, nothing in the matter of new ceremonials, new decorations, new gestures, new postures, without first taking counsel with his lay-people

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26. Most lay Churchmen can only see that the service in some churches is more ornamental and musical than in others, and that in some there is more importance attached to the Lord's Table, and to flowers, decorations, gestures, dress, and postures, than in others

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27. Maybe the saving grace was the insertions for wife-swapping that seemed genuine for they were all about give and take; but then, wasn’t he rendered a hors de combat for he lacked the means for a quid pro quo? What about Vimala, he thought as he recalled that evening when he was led into a lounge of a mansion where he found a score of whores in awkward postures, and as he turned his back on the gaudy dames in disgust, one lissome lass in a Turkish towel walked in

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28. of a man, never on the postures of his

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29. performances and postures might have medicinal use when one is afflicted with ailments but

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30. A few sit still in lotus meditation postures

31. Relaxed in all postures, especially those reclining on one side, the stone and clay figures indicate a lifestyle devoid of internal stress

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32. Norah could see it in their postures, read it in their faces

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33. When you sell, you can use postures, facial expressions, gestures, mannerisms, and your physical appearance to close the sale successfully

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34. and age alike into the cliche postures that apathy poses in the

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35. Their hunched postures allowed for only a narrow gap and the man held his position, forcing Tanya to turn sideways to pass through, her crotch all but brushing his nose as she tried to make her way out

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36. You can do postures when the body feels stiff, tense, tired

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37. in the vajra and lotus postures

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38. At the same time that she moved thoughtlessly, she was doubly conscious of her postures

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39. Clearly the respective groups were taking fighting postures

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40. He walked in the office premises silently in thoughtful postures

41. Some of the nudes were conventional, others in very strange postures focusing on the genitals both with Panos and Ceres

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42. It has a highly developed ritual which consists largely of sexo-yogic postures

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43. The sexo-yogic postures so widely displayed on the sculpted ornaments on the facades and the interiors of temples are considered part of the tantric practices

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44. destined to reach the supreme energy and felicity by means of a union with a partner and this is, perhaps, why the postures are so unconventional

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45. While she holds her legs obscenely apart as wide as possible for long periods of time… striving to show no pain or inconvenience… as she postures her perfect limbs in total silence… as she is visually raped by all the old senile men in the audience

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46. They notice the changing postures of the bride and groom

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47. Asanas are static postures with diff erent degrees of complexity that

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48. to start learning Bhujangasana and other basic postures with the help of

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49. In the yoga complex these asanas should be done after the postures of

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50. A complex is built with groups of three postures in each group

51. Unlike stretching and pivoting postures, their effect is based on at-

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52. The general feature of postures with legs apart is that they drive

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53. Their postures bringing their weapons downward on the bearers,

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54. postures and points of view, fit to feast the luxury of the eye

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55. With a supreme effort, she had lifted her child above her head, and the poor little creature's arms were still twined around its mother's neck! The postures of the four seamen seemed ghastly to me, twisted from convulsive movements, as if making a last effort to break loose from the ropes that bound them to their ship

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56. My friend, however, who for this time had alone the disposal of me, humoured their curiosity, and perhaps his own, so far, that he placed me in all the variety of postures and lights imaginable, pointing out every beauty under every aspect of it,

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57. and exhaust their inventions in means and devices to make up for the capital deficiency; and even towards lessening that, what arts, what modes, what refinements of pleasure have they not recourse to, to raise their languid powers, and press nature into the service of their sensuality? But here is their misfortune, that when by a course of teasing, worrying, handling, wanton postures, lascivious motions, they have at length accomplished a flashy enervate enjoyment, they at the same time light up a flame in the object of their passion, that, not having the means themselves to quench, drives her for relief into the next person's arms, who can finish their work; and thus they become bawds to some favourite, tried and approved of, for a more vigorous and satisfactory execution; for with women, of our turn especially,

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58. infinite variety of postures and points of view, fit to feast the luxury of the eye

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59. She saw the combined desperation and determination in their postures and expressions, and she raised her left hand quickly, elevating the shotgun muzzle to point at the deckhead instead of them

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60. For those of us who can’t hack the traditional postures, there are several rows of chairs lined up behind the mats

61. My Belly was so large, i’faith, that ’twas almost impossible for me to fulfill my weekly Obligations to Lord Bellars—for I could scarce clasp him ’round the Waist, much less allow him to lye with me in any but the most bestial of Postures, and e’en that one grew unwieldy in Time

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62. (’Tis oft’ the case with Men who claim Superiority o’er the Fair; they say they do not doubt their Dominance, yet can they ne’er enjoy a Woman till she be bound in Irons like a Guinea Slave!) Be that as it may, he had but passing Interest in the Act of Copulation, which he executed only when the Victim was upon all fours in the most bestial of Postures, and only when he might assault that Altar of Love which is shared by both Sexes, for he had no Use whatsoe’er for that Part specifick to the Female of the Species

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63. Cuddy’s research showed that just assuming “power poses” or postures of high power (think Wonder Woman with her hands on her hips and legs firmly planted on the ground; or the guy in your office leaning back in his chair, hands clasped behind his head, elbows out wide—you know the one) increased testosterone (the dominance hormone) by 20%, while simultaneously reducing cortisol (the major stress hormone) by 25%

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64. Several tens of thousands of the slain lay in diverse postures and various uniforms on the fields and meadows belonging to the Davydov family and to the crown serfs- those fields and meadows where for hundreds of years the peasants of Borodino, Gorki, Shevardino, and Semenovsk had reaped their harvests and pastured their cattle

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65. The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures

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66. There were statues frozen in angelic postures over gravel mounds, and intricately carved stones tall as men with angels spilling all down their rims, and tombs as big and ridiculous as beds put out to dry in the sun after some nocturnal accident

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67. Their faces and postures betrayed great apprehension

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68. Step by step, frame by frame of film, stop motion by stop motion, he, Terwilliger, had run his beasts through their postures, moved each a fraction of an inch, photographed them, moved them another hair, photographed them, for hours and days and months

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69. Several tens of thousands of the slain lay in diverse postures and various uniforms on the fields and meadows belonging to the Davýdov family and to the crown serfs—those fields and meadows where for hundreds of years the peasants of Borodinó, Górki, Shevárdino, and Semënovsk had reaped their harvests and pastured their cattle

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