This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Standing Asanas gathers three postures of the hatha yoga repertoire, and what unites them is less their shape than a fact worth stating plainly: genuinely standing postures, feet planted on the ground bearing the whole body's weight, are almost absent from the classical hatha corpus even though they make up the bulk of what most modern classes teach.
Garudasana, named for Garuda, the eagle who carries Vishnu, is entered in the Gheranda Samhita by pressing the shins and thighs to the ground, setting the hands on the knees and holding the body steady. The winding of one leg around the other that the name suggests to a modern practitioner is not in the classical description at all, which is a settled, steady seat rather than an entwined balance. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika does not carry it.
Utkatasana, whose name means raised, fierce or excessive, has the practitioner rise onto the toes with the heels lifted, the whole body balanced high and the seat resting back toward the heels. Even here the body stays on the toes rather than flat on the feet, which makes it the closest thing in the classical corpus to a standing posture. The deep squat with arms overhead taught under this name today is a different shape entirely, and the Pradipika does not carry it either.
Vrikshasana, the tree, stands on one leg with the other foot placed at the root of the opposite thigh, and the Gheranda Samhita is again its only classical source. Between the three, the group makes its own point: standing postures are one of the smallest categories the manuals actually describe.