“Like an unbaked earthen pot thrown in water, the body is soon decayed [in this world]. Bake it hard in the fire of training in order to strengthen and purify the body.” — The Gheranda Samhita Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras defines Hatha Yoga as the first...

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If you mention yoga to most people in the West they generally conjure up images of hordes of people in a yoga studio, contorting their bodies into various postures. This practice is generally associated with hatha-yoga or raja-yoga. The word yoga, means “yoke”, to join...

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