Compare yoga styles

Most style comparisons trade in adjectives — this one is gentle, that one is dynamic. Because we hold the full pose canon of every style as data, these compare the actual lists instead: how many poses two styles genuinely share, which ones only one of them uses, and where each spends its time.

• Hatha vs Vinyasa

  Same poses, different glue: Hatha holds a shape and then sets it down, Vinyasa links every shape to the next with a breath-timed movement.

  24 poses in both · 18 only Hatha · 22 only Vinyasa

• Ashtanga vs Vinyasa

  Vinyasa is Ashtanga with the sequence unlocked — and after decades of unlocking, the two now spend their time in completely different parts of the room.

  22 poses in both · 31 only Ashtanga · 24 only Vinyasa

• Power vs Vinyasa

  Power yoga is Vinyasa with the recovery taken out: nearly every pose it uses is a Vinyasa pose, but the softest ones are gone and the arm balances have doubled.

  33 poses in both · 3 only Power · 13 only Vinyasa

• Yin vs Vinyasa

  They are not two speeds of the same thing: Vinyasa asks muscle to work, Yin waits for connective tissue to give — and the pose lists barely touch.

  9 poses in both · 15 only Yin · 37 only Vinyasa

• Iyengar vs Hatha

  The pose lists are nearly the same; what changes is how long you stay, how exactly you are placed, and how much equipment gets you there.

  33 poses in both · 10 only Iyengar · 9 only Hatha

• Hot 26 vs Ashtanga

  The only real thing they share is the discipline of an unchanging sequence — the sequences themselves have almost no poses in common.

  6 poses in both · 21 only Hot 26 · 47 only Ashtanga