Tripod Headstand is a variation of the challenging inversion that brings your hands into play. Here's what to know.

Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article first appeared in the July-August 1984 issue of Yoga Journal.

I do yoga pretty regularly, and I like to consider myself well-versed in the practice: Warrior II? Chair Pose? Full bind? You got it! But any time the instructor calls for this intimidating inversion, ...