Hatha Yoga

Hatha Yoga:
An OverviewHatha yoga is one of the four main traditions of Tantra Yoga। Hatha yoga is mainly practiced for health and vitality in this modern age। It comes from the words ‘Ha’ meaning sun and ‘Tha’ meaning moon unites in Hatha Yoga। It is commonly translated as the yoga, which brings combination "of the pairs of opposites।"It is the symbolic combination of active and passive energies, the opposites। Hatha yoga is sometimes also known as “forceful yoga।” It is from this yoga that several other styles of yoga originated including Power yoga, Bikram yoga, and Kundalini yoga.
History of Hatha yog:
Hatha Yoga is a system of yoga introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a yogic sage in the 15th century in India. It is introduced to modern society by T. Krishnamacharya, a yoga teacher in Mysore Palace in south India, in late 19th century.His disciples B.K.S. Iyengar, K.Pattabhi Jois and Indira Devi, and his son T.K.V. Desikachar, were involved in setting up their schools and spreading Yoga all over the world, especially in America.Hatha Yoga tries to attain balance between body and mind, and also tries to free the more subtle spiritual elements of the mind through physical asanas, pranayama, and meditation.It basically concentrates on the practice of asanas and pranayama to energize the subtle channels. Therefore it focuses mainly on the 3rd and 4th steps in the eight limbs of yoga.