What Actually is Hatha Yoga with Prasad Rangnekar

Let's Talk Yoga

Arundhati Baitmangalkar

Business, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In the popular world of yoga, there's widespread misinformation about the tradition and the path of Hatha Yoga. Its rich history is often forgotten or laid aside and replaced with various misleading interpretations. While most yoga teachers are borrowing every day from hatha yoga. Hardly anyone knows its origins or in fact much about this path at all. Prasad Rangnekar, who has been on the podcast many times before is from the Natha lineage. The founding lineage of Hatha Yoga. He share...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I hope you are doing well. On the show today, I have Prasad Rangneker who is back for the fourth time. I think honestly I have stopped counting at this point. And if you are a regular listener to the show, you know Prasad is one of our most popular guests.
0:22.9	I actually feel like popular is not the right word.
0:25.5	He's one of the guests that you resonate with the most.
0:28.2	And I'm so grateful for his generosity that he keeps coming back and sharing his wisdom with us.
0:34.5	And on the show today, we're going to be talking about what is Hata Yoga and really
0:40.4	contextualizing Hata Yoga because there is so much misinformation about the tradition of Hata
0:47.2	yoga, the path of Hata yoga. And there's no better person to ask these questions to then
0:52.8	Prasad. Prasad is associated with the Nata lineage, the founding
0:57.3	lineage of Hata Yoga. And he's been associated with them for over 16 years. And he has stayed and
1:04.1	studied with Natha yoga masters in India and Nepal. And he gives us a lot of clarity about what is Hata yoga and the meaning of Hata.
1:15.6	And is it a style of yoga or a path of yoga?
1:19.2	And he really articulates that beautifully.
1:21.9	Who are the main stewards of this path?
1:24.4	He talks to us about the history and the evolution of Hata Yoga and what exactly
1:30.0	comes under Hata yoga itself because most modern yoga teachers don't know this and the ultimate
1:36.1	goal of Hata yoga and how is that different from different paths of traditional yoga and even
1:42.0	aspects that we've misunderstood about this and where you can go to gain
1:46.7	more clarity about hata yoga. This is truly an enriching conversation. Actually, any any conversation
1:53.3	or interaction with Prasad is like that. So I really hope you find this episode insightful and you gain a lot by listening to it. Now, before I let
2:04.9	you get to the interview, I just wanted to quickly remind you that my teaching yoga to
2:09.5	beginners course is starting on June 10th and June 5th, which is literally the weekend after this
2:16.0	episode drops. I'm hosting an information session
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