Hatha yoga

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title: Hatha yoga
text: Hatha yoga is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy. The Sanskrit word हठ haṭha literally means "force", alluding to a system of physical techniques. Some hatha yoga style techniques can be traced back at least to the 1st-century CE, in texts such as the Hindu Sanskrit epics and Buddhism's Pali canon. The oldest dated text so far found to describe hatha yoga, the 11th-century Amṛtasiddhi, comes from a tantric Buddhist milieu. The olde
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description: Branch of yoga focusing on physical techniques
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatha_yoga
date created: 2003-09-10T00:12:15Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T20:01:07Z
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