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Rod Stryker says that you can think about asana as a way to “dissolve or breakdown the resistance to energetic flow.” Baking and Alchemyīefore the advent of hatha yoga, yogins thought very little of having a body, equating it with a dump. That’s not a foreign way of thinking to us, as we still use terms like stuck, blocked, or plateau. Eastern practices imagine we have blockages that we need to remove before they can cause disease. The most significant problem you can have, in the Indian mind, is when things get stuck. Like many Eastern practices, such as acupuncture, the goal is to keep the energy of the body flowing. Hatha yoga seeks to bring harmony to the two sides of the body, thought of as two separate channels– the Ida and Pingala. Balance of the mental and physical energies.kundalini awakenings could lead to “mental anguish.” ( Feuerstein)īesides the metaphoric serpent smacking, the goals of traditional hatha yoga are: Through yoga, you could wake up or strike the snake with your force, and that would cause it to stand up and move through your chakras–said like “chuck” not “chalk,” that lie along your central channel, the Sushumna Nadi.

We are not in the 15th century anymore, and our knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and other sciences has grown.Īt this time, the hatha yogins imagined a coiled serpent at the base of your spine called the kundalini. Therefore it is a text to illuminate and describe what hatha yoga is about.Īs your guide, my goal is to explain how the theory works, not to agree with the point-of-view. Hatha Yoga Pradipika translates to Light on Hatha Yoga. Together, with the Gheranda Samhita and Siva Samhita, they comprise the corpus of hatha yoga. Hatha yoga was born around the 13th century with it’s most famous text, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, written by Swami Swatmarama, appearing 2 centuries later. This is the tale of two hathas, one dating back to around the 13th century and the modern, twenty-first-century method, which is nothing like it. Theos Bernard concurred, back in 1947, but says in a footnote: “The traditional meaning of the word hatha is force, hence this form of Yoga is sometimes called forceful Yoga.” Modern Hatha and Traditional Hatha Yoga Some scholars, notably Eliade say hatha can also mean sun and moon. Hatha refers to the practices of the body, so we typically think of yoga postures being hatha, but so too are breathing, eating, and others.

It gets a little more poetic, though, as you’ll see. Think of “force” as what you generate with your efforts, like powering an old school flashlight with a hand crank. I know this can be shocking, especially if you know yoga to be about peace, love, and understanding. The literal meaning of hatha is “ force” or “forceful.” It also means to strike a blow. You pronounce hatha, like “ hot ta,” where the “a” rhymes with la, ma, and pa and it has a hard “t,” not like “hath tha,” as in “bath” and “math.” Not all yoga is hatha yoga, but all physical yoga is hatha.īut, and here’s where the problem comes up, in modern yoga, we tend to treat hatha yoga like it’s own separate practice. What’s the difference between cars and red cars, or the difference between fruit and oranges. So in some aspects, the question like saying: Hatha yoga is referred to as an umbrella term or broad category of things, like cars. Hatha Yoga refers to all physical yoga practices, including Vinyasa yoga. However, the short answer when comparing hatha and vinyasa is: Then we need to separate what’s helpful and not and bring it back into the modern era to apply it to your practice. To determine the difference between hatha yoga and vinyasa yoga, we need to reach back and look at some 15th-century texts.