page_title: Mandukasana
section_title: Adho Mukha Mandukasana
hierarchical_section_title: Mandukasana / Variations / Adho Mukha Mandukasana
caption_attribution_description: English: Two male yogis are doing prostrate frog pose variation taught in Sparsa Yoga by Fank Andreas, a yoga therapy guru from Malang, Indonesia.
context_page_description: Mandukasana, or Frog posture is a group of seated asanas in Hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, all of which put the body in a shape like that of a frog. Another frog-like posture is Bhekasana.
context_section_description: A different form of the pose, practised in the Western world, has the knees and the feet equally wide apart, the lower legs pointing straight backwards, and the body supported also by the forearms flat on the floor, the elbows below or a little in front of the shoulders, the palms pressed together with thumbs uppermost. This pose is sometimes called Adho Mukha Mandukasana, Downward Facing Frog.
  The Yin Yoga variant of this, named Frog Pose, has the chest lowered to the floor, the palms face down on the floor with the thumbs touching. The pose is characteristically held for three to five minutes.
caption: Prostrate variants of Downward Facing Frog pose
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