BY NAYASWAMI HRIMAN MCGILLOWAY

Hatha Yoga, the yoga of physical postures, is not a sepa-rate yoga science in its own right; rather it is the physical discipline of the integral teach-ing known as raja yoga. Yoga means “union.” On a physical level of application, this signifies the complete har-mony of all parts of the body — a balanced support of all the members for one another in such a way that disease, or dis-harmony, is faced with a united defense and can hardly make any inroad into the body. Applying this to the body, we may understand that disease and other symptoms of bodily inharmony are not natural to man. If one can return to his natural state, disease will van-ish as a matter of course. The yoga postures help to harmonize the body with natural law. The primary emphasis in hatha yoga is on freeing the body of any impurity that may prevent it from functioning as it should. Even a little physical vitality can become dynamic, if the unnatural obstructions to its flow are removed. Yogis and Western medical doctors both say that the toxins in the body soon leave the bloodstream and settle in the joints. Western medical doc-tors have actually stated that the spinal discs of many people even in their twenties already show signs of deterioration, owing to want of proper irriga-tion. Western systems of physi-cal exercise do not develop the limberness necessary to keep the joints free of toxins and the spinal column well irrigated with life force. In both of these matters, the science of hatha yoga stands supreme. Hatha yoga also exercises a gentle massage on the internal organs and glands, gradually strengthening them. Much emphasis is given in yoga to the elimination of waste from the body. Tension, the chief obstruction to this flow, is the first obstacle to be overcome

if the body is to return to its divinely natural state. McGilloway teaches the popular Raja & Hatha Yoga Intensive at the Ananda Medita-

tion Temple in Bothell: www.AnandaBothell.org. He excerpt-ed this article from that course’s text by Swami Kriyananda: Art and Science of Raja Yoga.

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