Hatha Yoga is the foundation of Raja Yoga. "Hatha" literally means sun and moon. Hatha Yoga strives to balance these two contrary yet complementary elements which represent the masculine and the feminine, strength and flexibility.
Regular, consistent practice of these postures will improve Immune, Respiratory, Circulatory, Digestive and Nervous Systems. It will bring you an ocean of calm and peace, and provide you with the key to the Kingdom of Health and Vitality.
To be able to resist disease, to bear strain, and to enjoy mental vitality, to feel the body as a luxury, as a bird does when soaring through the air, and as a normal child does, is health. Proficient students of this Yoga program will recapture the power of youth every day.
This Yoga system teaches us how to help nature to generate and store up more life current than is used up and also teaches us how to send this life current down to all tissues of the body, promoting their health through contact with inner cosmic energy.