Hatha Yoga should not be taught as an exercise form, but as a live process.

Then asanas will lead to ecstatic states.

We must understand just the way you hold your body can change the fundamental chemistry of who you are.

You can experiment if you wish, if you sit in a comfortable posture,

hold your hands facing down and see how you breathe.

Turn it around and see how you breathe. The way you breathe,

alter itself simply because you turn your hands around.

That is how sensitive and sophisticated the human mechanism is.

So if you just learn to hold your body right,

you can create a chemistry of blissfulness and ecstasy.

So Hatha Yoga is not an exercise form of stretching and torturing yourself in most difficult postures.

It is about learning to manipulate your chemistry to the highest level of pleasantness

by simply moving your body and holding it in different ways.

These are not just exercises. These are not just postures.

These are a very profound science of understanding the relationship between Asana

and one's experience or the posture and one's experience.

You might have noticed this other way.

If you walk into your home, somebody that you know well,

if you notice the way they are sitting, you know whether they are happier or unhappy.

Just the way they hold their body, you know whether they are peaceful or not.

You know whether they are angry or freaked out.

You know what's happening within them just by the way they hold their body.

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