The body in early Hatha Yoga
by Ruth Westoby | 2024 | 112,229 words
This page relates 鈥榊ogayajnavalkya and Hatha Yoga鈥� of study dealing with the body in Hatha Yoga Sanskrit texts.鈥擳his essay highlights how these texts describe physical practices for achieving liberation and bodily sovereignty with limited metaphysical understanding. Three bodily models are focused on: the ascetic model of 鈥榖aking鈥� in Yoga, conception and embryology, and Kundalini鈥檚 affective processes.
The 驰辞驳补测腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补 and Ha峁環a Yoga
The fourteenth-century 驰辞驳补测腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补 teaches a 惫补颈峁ａ箛补惫补 form of 补峁ａ弓腻峁単补测辞驳补 without the 丑补峁环补 yoga 尘耻诲谤腻s. Bouy discusses the 驰辞驳补测腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补 but does not appear to date the text (1994). Divanji published an edition in 1954 which does not include a translation. The 贬补峁环补辫谤补诲墨辫颈办腻 borrows verses on 腻蝉补苍补 from the 驰辞驳补测腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补, and the 驰辞驳补测腻箩帽惫补濒办测补 takes its teachings on 办耻峁囜笉补濒颈苍墨 (YY 4.21-4) from the 笔腻诲尘补蝉补峁僪颈迟腻 (2.13c鈥�2.17b) (Mallinson and Singleton 2017:490n21).
I do not include the 驰辞驳补测腻箩帽补惫补濒办测补 in my core selection of sources because although it is within my timeframe its teachings are similar to that of the earlier 痴补蝉颈峁ａ弓丑补蝉补峁僪颈迟腻 which I do include.