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Doing this, they’re honoring the deepest sources. They explain how modern yoga comes from the transition from tantra to hatha yoga. Good news- the yoga teacher trainings that are correcting this are on the rise. So common that most yoga teachers have learned it in their training. My co-author Mark Singleton has written about how 95% of modern yoga is not from that. That’s what most practitioners of modern yoga learn. “The conventional history is that yoga begins with Patanjali in the fourth century CE. The yogic scholar James Mallinson writes : This emphasized renunciation and the seminal power of male practitioners. The move from tantra to hatha yoga changed a Goddess-based practice into a male-based one. In the yoga text, this became available to everyone from any social class – men, women, and householders. This tantric scripture presented ‘Hathayoga’ as a female devotional practice. He claims that, in 2016, he discovered that verses in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika came from the Varahi Tantra. Hatha yoga pradipika and the tantric textsĬhristoper Tompkins, another Sanskrit and tantra scholar, has a similar insight. We also have a newly translated very important scripture, called Matsyendra Samhitā, dated 1300, which claims to be the teaching that Goraksha received from Matsyendra.
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“A couple of scholars have shown now, it’s not widespread knowledge yet that Hatha Yoga almost definitely comes out of a south Indian Tantric lineage called Shambhavānanda lineage. Tantra scholar Christopher Hareesh Wallis writes : The tantric work of Goraksha and Swatarama is the most influential on modern yoga today. This is the true classic text on yoga, where all modern exercise-based yoga comes from. Around 1450 CE he compiled the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, a basic text for yogis. Swami Swatarama, like Goraksha, was also of the tantric Nathas lineage. Worth noting: not the same as modern Ashtanga Yoga. These were practical prescriptions for having a good life. The tantrikas saw this hatha yoga as a tantric amplification of Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga. By removing the more complex practices of energy and mantra, he wanted to suit the mainstream. What was his goal? Goraksha wanted to create a simplified version of tantric yoga. Goraksha was a tantric practitioner of the lineage of the Nath tradition (1000-1200 CE). This is the system we know and practice today.
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Let’s get nerdy, yeah? You can skip ahead if your current mood isn’t history buff.Īccording to yoga historians, Goraksha is who truly compiled the earliest hatha yoga texts. Other names are divine consciousness, infinite potential, innate fullness, the absolute, or even God. ‘That’ refers to our true nature: the underlying power that moves through everything. Just as the water droplet is individual but, at the same time, part of the great ocean. Learning tantra, we realize that we are that oneness. Sarvam sarvaātmakam is a maxim that means, “everything is the essence of everything else”. Tantra acknowledges the interconnectedness of all things. There is an invisible energy web that connects everyone and everything as oneness. It helps you realize that everything is energy. Tantra is a system of techniques to align your energies with universal energies. Using tantric meditation and spiritual practice to expand your awareness and consciousness. Some would say that the most accurate and original meaning of the word is, “a technology to expand”. They only share the same spelling and pronunciation.
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Still, that meaning of the word tantra is actually a different Sanskrit word. Tantra as weaveĪnother meaning of tantra is “weave”, the translation Western tantra teachers often adopt. The tantras, or scriptures, are the spiritual texts that are the base of all tantric yoga. Strictly, the word t antra means “ scripture ”. This is incorrect- think of the meaning of the word and of what the technique sought to achieve. In the west, tantra has become a substitute word for sex. The meaning of tantra Tantra as scripture