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Modern Yoga Fitness Studio / Meditation Instructor / Personal Trainer / Life Coach / Healer / Reiki Master / Massage Therapy Collections - EKA PADA RAJAKAPOTASANA MEANING Eka Pada Rajakapotasana translates into “One-Legged King Pigeon Pose”: “Eka” for “one,” “pada” for “leg” or “foot,” “raja” for “king,” “kapota” for “pigeon,” and, finally, “asana” for “posture” or “seat.” Like many popular Vinyasa poses, One-Legged King Pigeon first starts showing up in the work of BKS Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois, both students of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya — so it likely started appearing between the 1930s and the 1950s. While pigeons hold significance in Vedic and Hindu mythology — they represent Yama, god of death and justice — that doesn’t mean that Pigeon Pose is about anything more than just a pigeon. Iyengar, in his 1966 book Light on Yoga, says it’s called King Pigeon because “the chest is pushed forward like that of a strutting pigeon” or a pouter pigeon.