Meaning of आसन in English

The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.
Place; position; situation.
State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.
To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model.
To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.
Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
Free from toil.
of Sate
The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.
Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
To fix; to set firm.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
To rest; to lie down.