Malasana This is a wonderful asana for opening up the hips and also for working on balance.
Badakonasana This posture is also known as bound angle pose or cobbler's pose is also a very good posture for opening up the inner thighs.
Remember there are variations where you can lean forward to increase the stretch and a variation where you can lie back to relax into the stretch.
Navasana This posture is also known as boat pose is a very good posture for strengthening the core muscles.
Makarasana Makarasana is also known as crocodile pose.
It involves lying on your front with the palms supporting the chin is very good for opening up the upper back.
Salamba Bhujangasana This posture is also known as sphinx pose.
To do this pose lie on your front with the forearms on the ground and your elbows under your shoulders.
This opens up the upper and middle back.
Sarpasana This posture is also known as snake pose.
Lie on your front with your hands behind your back and interlinked.
This helps to open up the shoulders and the upper back.
Bhujangasana This posture is like upward dog which is described below but in this version you only rise to where feels comfortable and also in this version you take your palms off the ground.
This helps to open up and strengthen the upper back.
Urdhva Mukha Svanasana This posture is also known as upward dog and stretches out the whole of the spine.
Extend up as much as you can in this pose.
Salabasana Salabasana is also known as locust pose and strengthens out the lower back.
Ardha Matsyendrasana This is also known as half spinal twist and is exactly that.
As well as releasing out the spinal cord (which is good after practising backbends) this posture also helps to stimulate the pancreas and hence the beta cells in the islets of Langerhans within the pancreas which produce insulin.
This posture hence helps prevent diabetes.
Gomukhasana This posture is also known as cow faced pose and helps to open out the shoulders as well as the hip muscles.
Agnistambhasana This posture is also known as fire log pose and helps to open up the hips, the gluteus muscles and also the piriformis muscle.
Sit on the floor with the fronts of the legs parallel to the yoga mat and ankle over knee of the opposite foot.
Both feet should be flexed to protect the knee joints.
Trikonasana Trikonasana is also known as triangle pose.
This posture also helps to open up the hips.
Rajakapotasana This posture is also known as king pigeon pose.
It helps open out the quadricep muscles at the front of the thigh from the leg which is rested on the ground.
It also helps open out the hip muscle of the opposite leg.
Vrksasana This posture is also known as tree pose.
This posture helps to strengthen out the core and develop balance.
It also helps to strengthen out the supporting leg.
As well as this the hip also opens up for the side which has the leg balancing.