Hatha yoga is thousand-year-old yogic practice, which people are still adopting for attaining overall health of body and mind. People focus on the physical body, including emphasizing on the chakras to stimulate kundalini and promote spiritual and physical wellness, including the elimination of diseases.

With the practice of Hatha Yoga the individual can balance the mind, body, and chakras and learn controlled meditative and breathing techniques. These techniques complement the physical movements of the body. The basic aspect for Hatha yoga is the “Hatha yoga pradipika” and the yogic practice that is rooted in the Hindu yoga. The referred text of Hatha Yoga is the Svatmarama’s Hatha yoga Pradipika which is the authoritative text of Hatha yoga. It states that Hatha yoga is a way to climb to the highest form of Raja Yoga, which would help you to shine yourself brilliantly.

The spine is one of the energy channels and Hatha yoga has the capacity of opening this channel. All the asanas of Hatha yoga needs regular practice and devotion to get a positive effect,

So let’s find out these promising benefits of Hatha Yoga Pradipik

Know your body. This is a first benefit of practicing Hatha Yoga. Yoga regulates different internal systems in the body, and helps you to know and understand the different systems of your body. It also helps in maintaining an overall healthy body and weight. It not only helps in dropping your extra kilos but also makes it strong from inside, and improves metabolism and strengthens the immune system. Breathing also helps in maintaining mental and emotional balance.

Stress reliever: Yoga is a great stress reliever and helps in detoxifying body and mind. After a tiring day at School, some repetitions of Suryanamaskar followed by some deep breathing exercise can really make a difference. You will find a sense of calmness within you.

Feel energized with Prana: It is a Prana which means universal life force. Each human being is born with energy which is responsible for retaining the body’s life and maintenance.  Over the passage of time, this prana diminishes and makes the body weak. These breathing techniques and yogic postures regulate and maintain this form of energy, and thereby building the life’s longevity.

Improve body flexibility: Flexibility is very important is retaining an agile and supple body. Inflexible muscles will lead to bad body posture, knee discomfort, and neck pain. When you practice Hatha yoga regularly, you can correct your body posture and ease your muscles.  Through this system, gaining difficult yoga postures can also become easy.

Strengthens the muscles and improve balance: Yoga practice keeps the muscles strong and in good shape. It also helps in keeping the joints in good shape preventing various ailments like arthritis. Strong muscles also help in retaining the balance of the body particularly during the old age.

Hatha Yoga helps you to focus : Hatha Yoga builds the human’s capability to focus and by keeping the mind both alert and sharp. Deep breathing which helps you to balance the body.

Increases blood flow; With Hatha yoga asanas like shoulder stand, handstand and headstand increase blood to flow from legs to the heath, and then later pumps it to the lungs for proper oxygenation. It helps you to remain energetic and refreshed after the practice.

Healthy body and mind boost happiness. Hatha yoga has a lot to offer for the yoga practitioners and beginners of all ages. Unlike other yoga forms like Vinyasa or Ashtanga Yoga, it does not focus on the flow of the movement from one pose to the other; instead it focuses on each poses independently. One can perform the pose and come out of it easily and then switch over to the other pose while impacting the practice.  It is a very powerful form of practice which could help you to identify hidden physical and mental potentialities.