Integral Yoga-3

Body is part of the mind, not that mind is contained in the body, as many misconceive.

Hatha Yoga is a means of mind management, using the body as its front. Practitioners having difficulty about directly accessing the mind, may find it easy to use the body as conduit, coupled with other requisite components, such as breathing technique, synchronised with body postures with the application of awareness . 

Surya Namashkar, for instance, is a complete pack, comprising dynamic postures, synchronised with yogic breathing called pranayama , incorporating the awareness component to turn the application into a meditational form, especially when it is followed by Shavasana which is expandable into psychic sleep, or sleepless sleep called Yoga Nidra. 

There are numerous yoga postures, which may be described as belonging to a very wide range, I.e, as easy to perform as may come handy even for one who is bed ridden while on the other extreme, as tough as requiring perseverance , patience and systematic training for a young who has no fitness issues.

Suffice it to say that the choice is so large and  result-wise so efficacious that no body would have difficulty in embracing a suitably picked up package of asana , pranayama, mudra and  bandha , besides Shavasana, yoga nidra and meditation. 

The main focus of Hatha yoga practices is on purification of the energy channels in the body followed by its purification by clearing the energy blocks. 

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