Hatha Yoga

Hatha means to stick fast, to be devoted and to hold closely or firmly. Yoga means to unite, to associate, to yoke and to join. It also means zeal, endeavor, fixing the mind on one point, holding the body in a steady posture, contemplation and meditation.

Hatha yoga is about balancing the body and mind. With "Ha" representing the esoteric sun, and "tha" the moon, and the practice of Hatha yoga aiming to join, yoke, or balance these two energies.

Hatha Yoga is that branch of the Yoga Philosophy which deals with the physical body, care its wellbeing, its health, its strength and all that tends to keep it in its natural and normal state of health.

Hatha Yoga preaches a sane, natural, normal manner of living and life, which if followed will benefit any one. It keeps close to nature and advocates a return to natural methods in preference to those which have grown up around us in our artificial habits of living.

Hatha Yoga thus accepts man for what he really is and therefor does not neglect the physical, It recognizes the concept of the wholeness of man and proposes to achieve psychosomatic sublimation through a system of physical culture which inter alia includes physical education, hygiene, therapy, and biologic control of the autonomous nervous system affecting the hygiene of the mind and moral behavior

Hatha yoga represented a trend towards democratisation of yoga insights and religion similar to the Bhakti movement. It eliminated the need for either ascetic renunciation or priestly intermediaries, ritual paraphernalia and sectarian initiations.

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