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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 50. What is the Difference between Haṭhayoga and Hatha Yoga?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46392

Blurb:

The majority of modern practitioners engage in a generic relaxation-oriented yoga which is not associated with any specific lineage or school and which, if it needs to be differentiated from yoga’s branded forms, has, by default, come to be denoted by Hatha Yoga, an anglicised form of haṭhayoga, the Sanskrit technical term for physical yoga.

Chapter Contributors

  • James Mallinson (jm63@soas.ac.uk - jmallinson) 'University of Oxford'