The concept has taken a slight turn in these modern times. Modern yoga focuses on flexibility, strength and fitness at 26% of breathing with the goal of improving mental and physical well-being. It's still linked to inner peace and mental stability, but now with an added touch of vanity. He studied with Kuvalayananda in the 1930s, creating in his yogashala at the Jaganmohan Palace in Mysore “a union of hatha yoga, wrestling exercises and modern Western gymnastic movement,” Singleton says.
But then what is this modern yoga? Is it a reality that concerns India and its ancient tradition or is it a new practice born in the West? These include some that are similar to those practiced in modern times, such as Padmasana, Mayurasana, Gomukhasana, Matsyendrasana, Kurmasana and Mandukasana. To do this, techniques derived from traditional kundalini yoga, layla yoga and tantra are used, as described in my article, adapted by Yogi Bhajan to the modern Western lifestyle, but with the same purpose of creating a complete discipline that encompasses the entire human being and not just his physical part. These two are some of Hatha's main texts referred to in modern Yoga and demonstrate a process path that begins with crude modalities and ends with the realization of the self. “Modern yoga in English,” Singleton says, is “heavily inspired by the textual vision of Orientalist and Anglo-Indian scholarship in the late 19th century.
The impact of modern postural yoga on physical and mental health has been the subject of systematic studies, with evidence that regular yoga practice produces health benefits. Modern transnational yoga is viewed in various ways through “cultural prisms” that include religion, psychology, sports science, medicine, photography and fashion of the New Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888-1898), “the father of modern yoga”, claimed to have spent seven years with one of the few teachers of hatha yoga who Ramamohana Brahmachari then lived on Lake Manasarovar, in Tibet, from 1912 to 1918. This is a complete tantric discipline and does not belong to modern postural yoga. movement, which is mainly based on positions. In premodern and classical yogic systems, “Hatha Yoga or Hatha Marga”, the path of Hatha Yoga, is understood as an orientation of Yoga that works with subtle physiology for a specific teleology, Moksha, the liberation of conditional life.
According to her, asanas “only became prominent in modern yoga in the early 20th century as a result of dialogic exchanges between Indian and American and European reformers and nationalists interested in health and fitness. Jain states that, although “hatha yoga is traditionally believed to be the ur system of modern postural yoga, equating them does not explain historical sources.
