Publisher's Synopsis
There are many branches of yoga: service love and devotion meditation repetition of a mantra wisdom. But in his first book Swami Satchidananda is about hatha yoga or what is known as yoga exercise - bodily postures methods for deep relaxation breath control cleansing processes and systems of mental concentration. This book is a simple lucid and beautifully designed introduction to hatha yoga which can be used individually in the home or in conjunction with local yoga classes. The exercises contained in this book have been used by millions of people over thousands of years to transcend human limitations gain self-realisation and experience the divine.