How To Do Hatha Yoga Video

Hatha yoga combines breathing exercises and yoga poses to prepare the body for meditation. Learn how to practice Hatha yoga in this yoga video.

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Balance mind, body, breath
Follow 8 limb path
Honor your body

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. My name is Cindy Mastry, and in this clip we'll be discussing Hatha yoga. Hatha yoga is one of the original forms of yoga. It's one of the oldest known forms. The word, hatha, means sun-moon, representing the balance of the energy forces within the body. In the typical Hatha yoga class, you're going to use the eight-limb path where there are rules of social and personal behavior, Asana practice. You're going to use Pranayama breathing practices. You're going to use meditation, withdrawing the senses, concentration, and finally relaxation and meditation. Normally, you use the postures as with all yoga practices. That's what makes this one of the most well-known, most loved types of yoga in the United States. It has such a dynamic practice of standing poses, balancing poses, twisting poses, all to bring your body into health and purify your nervous system. So, Hatha yoga means balance connecting your mind, body, and breath. You follow the eight-limb path, and as always you honor your body and do what feels right for you today.

How to Do Hatha Yoga Video

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