Author: Swami Muktibodhananda
Publisher: Yoga Publications Trust
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 659
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185787387
Description
Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Light on Hatha Yoga) includes the original Sanskrit text compiled by Maharishi Swatmarama with a translation and thorough commentary in English by Swami Satyananda and Swami Muktibodhananda.
This text elucidates the entire science of hatha yoga (asana, pranayama, shatkarma, mudra and bandha) as it was conceived and practiced not only for health and fitness but for awakening the vital energies: pranas, charkas and kundalini shakti. It points out that hatha yoga is not just a physical practice but a process of cellular transmutation from gross to subtle to divine. Thus hatha yoga was considered to be the foundation of all higher yogas.
Line drawings and diagrams illustrate the text.
Contents
CHAPTER ONE
Asana
CHAPTER TWO
Shatkarma and Pranayama
CHAPTER THREE
Mudra and Bandha
CHAPTER FOUR
Samadhi
GLOSSARY
INDEX OF PRACTICES
INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS