Month: January 2018

This unscheduled article has been induced by my short post on Facebook. A couple of days ago my sight was caught by an ad of “Hatha Yoga after Patanjali” event in Kharkov, and I could not but turn the yoga community attention to incorrectness of this word combination. They started speaking about Hatha-yoga in the… Continue reading Hatha Yoga and Patanjali

They traditionally believe that the word “yoga” was not used in Vedas, at least in the context of designating a system of esoteric psycho-practices as we know it today. However, this is not quite the case.   Vedas indeed do not contain the word “yoga” as an absolute equivalent of the meaning we assign to… Continue reading Yoga and Magic. The Most Ancient Reference to Yoga in Atharvaveda