Ha-tha Yoga as Meditation

Throughout the classical yoga literature, Hatha Yoga is consistently described as the science of utilizing all aspects of one’s personality: body, breath and mind, for the purpose of ascending to the heights of Raja Yoga in the experience of one-pointed awareness, meditation and samadhi.

Until the prana enters the middle path [ of the sushumna stream],
Until the point [of concentration] becomes firm through the control of prana,
Until one’s essence flows naturally and evenly in meditation,
Till then all your knowledge [of hatha] is myth, hypocrisy, and words.

(Translated from Svatmarama’s Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Dr Usharbudh Arya in Philosophy of Hatha Yoga, 1977).

This week long seminar will touch on the traditional approach of Hatha Yoga and the subtleties of practice as a pathway towards meditation and inner awareness as taught by Swami Veda Bharati.