Editing Handstand (section)

===Yoga===
[[File:Mr-yoga-eagle-handstand-pose.jpg|thumb|upright| [[Adho Mukha Vrikshasana]] with legs in [[Garudasana]] (Eagle pose)]]

In modern [[yoga as exercise]], the handstand is among the inverted poses; it is known as Adho Mukha Vrksasana,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Budilovsky |first1=Joan |last2=Adamson |first2=Eve |title=The complete idiot's guide to yoga |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5pE8-Oyly0C |edition=2 |year=2000 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-02-863970-3 |page=179}}</ref> Downward-facing Tree Pose. In traditional [[hatha yoga]] in the 18th and 19th centuries, the ''Vyayāmadipike'', which calls it the "second ''gardam''", and the ''[[Śrītattvanidhi]]'' use the handstand in a sequence involving touching the nose to the ground; the ''[[Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati]]'' calls this Syenasana, meaning hawk pose.<ref name="Birch Singleton 2019">{{cite journal |last1=Birch |first1=Jason |author1-link=Jason Birch |last2=Singleton |first2=Mark |author2-link=Mark Singleton (yoga scholar) |title=The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Hathayoga on the Cusp of Modernity |journal=Journal of Yoga Studies |date=2019 |volume=2 |pages=3–70 |doi=10.34000/JoYS.2019.V2 |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32089/1/Jason%20Birch%20and%20Mark%20Singleton%20Hathabhyasapaddhati%20Journal%20of%20Yoga%20Studies%20Dec%202019.pdf <!--authorised eprint at authors' site-->|url-access=subscription }}</ref>