Archive for December, 2014
Friday, December 26th, 2014
Retention of bindu
In its earliest formulations, hatHa was used to raise and conserve the physical essence of life, identified in men as bindu (semen), which is otherwise constantly dripping downward from a store in the head and being expended. (The female equivalent, mentioned only occasionally in our sources, is rajas, ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2014
The mudras (seals) of the Hathayogapradipika compiled by Svatmaraman about 1450 AD, are not original to that work, but are also to be found in the following works which predate the HYP.
(A1) Amrtasiddhi – 11th C
(D) Dattatreyayogasastra – 13th C
(V) Vivekamartanda – 13th C
(G) Goraksasataka – 13th C
(K) Khecarividya – ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
The history of the specifically postural yoga that is the root of the yogas that are practiced in the modern West is not well known. We know that most forms of current Western practice can be traced back to the teachers Vivekananda, Yogananda, Sivananda, Kuvalayananda, Hariharananda, Krishnamacharya, and a few ...
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