What is Hatha Yoga
Hatha Yoga is the most popular branch of Yoga. All styles of manifest from Hatha Yoga including Ashtanga Yoga.Hatha Yoga came from the words ha which means sun and tha which means moon. It is often translated as the branch of Yoga that brings union of the pairs of opposites referring to the positive (sun) and negative (moon) currents in the system. Yogi Swatmarama and Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Yogi Swatmarama was a 15th and 16th century yogic sage in India. He is best known for his compiling the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, which introduced the system of Hatha Yoga. Hatha Yoga focuses on purification of the body as a path that leads to purification of the mind.
Hatha yoga is a particular system of Yoga introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a yogic sage of the 15th century in India, and compiler of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika.The Hatha Yoga of Swatmarama and his contemporaries differs from the Raja Yoga of Patanjali in that it focuses on shatkarma, the purification of the physical as leading to the purification of the mind (ha) and prana, or vital energy (tha).Hatha Yoga is what most people associate with the word |
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