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thumb|upright=1.35|Tortoise Pose, Kurmasana
Kurmasana (; ), Tortoise Pose, or Turtle Pose is a sitting forward bending asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turtle Pose” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.