Taḍasana, or Samasthiti, is a standing in modern as exercise [1]. It forms the basis for several other standing asanas. The pose was not found in until the twentieth-century book . However, in 1896, it appeared in Vyayama Dipika, a manual of gymnastics , as part of the “very old” sequence of danda (Sanskrit for “staff” or “stick”) exercises. It is used as a “primary foundation” in the flow of vinyasa by [1].