Hatha Yoga

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Hatha Yoga can give tone to your body and add so much to your health and well being. Various poses can give flexibility from the practice of hatha yoga but they can also give something more. For instance what we call in the west the salute to the sun. I recall practicing it almost ten times and suddenly I fell to the ground, after stretching back, in complete euphoria. I lay there in savasana, in an ecstatic state feeling all the lights in my body being turned on and what it is like to have a similar experience in meditation. I felt like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. Although an orgasm may be used as an analogy it is simply not the same as consciousness itself being awakened with bliss.