Hatha Yoga As A Path To Enlightenment - by Hans van Veen

COURSE

Hatha Yoga As A Path To Enlightenment

With Hans van Veen

What does it mean to be enlightened? What does it mean to have a body while attaining this state? And how does yoga, specifically Hatha Yoga, work as a path towards this mysterious thing called awakening? In this course, I will take you along for a ride, based on my experience as a Yoga teacher, using the modalities of Western science, the Upanishads & the Vedas, as well as insights from my own learning. Disambiguation: there are many 'Yoga's'. This course is about Hatha Yoga. image: Getty

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Meet your Teacher

Hans van Veen
Utrecht, Netherlands

Hans van Veen is a parent, Aletheia Method Transformational Coach, and communication trainer, as well as a certification candidate with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. His work is rooted in Nonviolent Communication and enriched by Nondual Tantra, Zen, Vipassana, and other contemplative practices. He supports parents, groups, couples, and individuals in cultivating empathy, self-acceptance, and authentic connection.

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5 Days

141 students

4.9 stars

8 min / day

Awakening

English

Lesson 1

Yoga As A Path To Enlightenment

In this first session, I'll provide you with the context of my own experience and define some terms, and specifically lay out the landscape of how we're going to approach answering the question of this course. How does yoga bring us to enlightenment?

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Lesson 2

Yoga And Meditation

In this session, we're going to take a close look at the balance and interaction between meditation and yoga, and we're going to see that there really isn't much of a difference between the two of them.

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Lesson 3

Freedom & Awareness ~ The 'Middle Way' Of Yoga

In this session we are going to go into the core process of what practicing asana does: It is the cultivation of recognition of awareness itself, thus transcending the dualism between body and mind...

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Lesson 4

The Kathopanishad's Chariot Metaphor

This session introduces a central metaphor in ancient Hindu wisdom, the chariot metaphor of the Kathopanishad. Here we see the allegorical construction of the soul as understood by the people of the Indus Valley.

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Lesson 5

Iyengar Yoga & Western Science

In this last session, we'll balance all the talk of Hindu mythology with some Western science. And I will advocate for Ayyanga Yoga as a specifically powerful style of Hatha Yoga. I hope you enjoy this last session.

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4.9 (11)

Recent Reviews

Tommy

Tommy

June 8, 2025

Great course.

Anne

Anne

December 15, 2024

Comprehensive and informative course.

Nicholas

December 11, 2024

Really nice little course. Got me re-enthused to keep going to yoga and also to try out Iyengar yoga.

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