At the end of February we left off with one foot in the door of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, one of the oldest surviving Hatha Yoga manuals. Hatha Yoga emerged sometime in the 9th or 10th centuries CE, strongly influenced by both Hindu Tantra and Indian alchemy. The Pradipika was written four or five hundred [...]
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News from the Piedmont Yoga Studio Newsletter January 2008
Traditional Hatha Yoga, as it’s described in the school’s oldest surviving instruction manuals, is an odd-looking duck, at least to our modern Western eyes. Take the granddaddy of these books, Svatmarama Yogendra’s Hatha Yoga Pradipika (literally “Light on the Forceful Union-Method”), which is a venerable 600 years old, possibly older. It consists of 389 verses [...]
