Hatha Yoga

The author draws our attention to its continuity with nature. Specifically, he examines the complex notion of a subtle bodily matrix - comprising vital channels, centres, and forces, or as he terms them Prana - which is so crucial, as to form the basis for this discipline; this matrix being held to form, as it were, a bridge between the gross physical and mental spheres. Description: Hatha Yoga is concerned with the most elemental of matters: the development of an ethical and spiritually oriented appreciation of humanity, the cultivation of maximal health and perceptual acuity, and the quest for self-realization and thus logically a closer relationship with nature.