What is alignment-based Hatha yoga?
Hatha Yoga is the practice of physical postures and breathing exercises helping to bring balance into the body and mind. Alignment-based Hatha Yoga, as practiced and taught at Yoga Centers, places emphasis on alignment of the body to safely achieve maximum benefit from the postures. Benefits can include physical improvements such as becoming more flexible, stronger and healthier, and preventing or recovering from injury. Yoga can also provide emotional benefits such as calming, focusing the mind and lifting the spirit. Alignment-based Hatha Yoga is not a fad. It originates in a tradition that is over 5,000 years old, and is becoming accepted by an ever-increasing number of health-oriented medical practitioners and therapists.
