and how modern yoga forgot about it! In the classical teachings, Hatha Yoga  was never about perfecting the body (āsana) - it was about refining the breath (prāṇāyāma), and through the breath, the mind. Great Master and Professor T. Krishnamacharya - the grandfather of modern yoga - used to say: “Hatha Yoga is Prānāyāma.” The shift from inner to outer Yet when yoga travelled into the modern world, it changed shape. In the early twentieth century, T. Krishnamacharya was asked

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