Śavāsana — Lying as the Dead Liehatha yoga classicalYou lie flat on your back, arms a little away from the body, palms up, legs loose and turned out, and stay completely still — the posture is named for a corpse because that is the degree of stillness intended. Nothing is tensed, nothing is stretched, nothing is counted. The Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā gives it in a single line (1.32): lying like this removes the fatigue produced by the other practices and quiets the mind. It is the oldest instruction in this collection for doing nothing on purpose, and the one modern deep-rest recordings are descended from.What it's for

Body Disconnect — Feeling cut off from your own body is read here as a body that has only been used, never inhabited. Stillness is the condition under which sensation becomes noticeable again, because nothing louder is happening.

Tension Headache — Held tension is read as effort that was never called off — the body still braced for something that finished hours ago. The remedy is not to stretch it out but to lie down and stop supplying it.

Work Burnout — Burnout is read as depletion that rest keeps failing to touch, because what passes for rest still has tasks in it. This posture removes the tasks — there is nothing in it to do well.