Hatha Yoga
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In the West, the understanding of hatha yoga has been divorced from its roots in the ancient conceptualization of yoga to represent a means to attain purely physical well being. While it does contribute to that, that was not its original purpose.The yogic system was first described, and compiled, by Patanjali in his Yoga Aphorisms, which are dated to the second or third century B.C.E. These yoga sutras have been translated and discussed by many interpreters -- a good modern version being that of J.H. Woods (1914). The term "yoga" itself has two different meanings in the Sanskrit, with the most commonly accepted meaning being that of joining, or yoking (Evans Wentz, 1935). The various yoga paths are means of joining the unenlightened human being to the divine nature so that the human being can eventually escape the cycle of death and rebirth. Hatha yoga is simply one form of yoga, and the least of the forms, not yoga itself, as is often popularly believed. Hatha yoga was developed to provide the yogis with t
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