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=What is Hathayoga?=
Hathayoga is a powerful, but difficult and onerous system whose whole principle of action is founded on an intimate connection between the body and the soul. The two main members of its physical discipline, are ''āsana'', the habituating of the body to certain attitudes of immobility, and ''prāṇāyāma'', the regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body. These two methods, complex and cumbrous in action, but simple in principle and effective. Perfection of Asana and Pranayama, is only a basic physical power and freedom. The principal gain is that by this purification the vital energy can be direcHere it comes into line with Rajayoga, and a point is reached at which a transition from the one to the other can be made.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p2</ref>
All Yoga proceeds in its method by three principles of practice; first purification, secondly concentration, and thirdly liberatio. The enjoyment of our liberated being which brings us into unity or union with the Supreme, is the consummation; it is that for which Yoga is done.
=How to Cultivate Hathayoga Practice?=