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 [...]