Hatha Yoga
The earliest and therefore most simple form of the Yoga practice. An English translation of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika of Swatmaram Swami was published in 1893. This book consists of four chapters: the first containing advice as to surroundings, conduct, postures, etc.; the second dealing with breathing practice, preparation, purification; the third gives ten Mudras which confer miraculous powers; and the fourth is a sort of supplement, and deals with the results of Yoga practice. The fruits of Yoga are detailed, and are of a very omniscient character.
Hauffe, Frederica : Better known as the "Seeress of Provost," a somnambule who came under the observation of 66 66 Haunted Houses Dr. Justinus Kerner, a well-known poet and physician, early in the nineteenth century. A natural trance and convulsive patient, she came to Kerner to be magnetised, but he endeavoured at first to treat her by medicinal means. Finding these unavailing, however, he resorted to magnetism. Henceforward the Seeress passed the greater part of her life in trance, displaying all the usual somnambulic phenomena. (See Magnetism under article Hypnotism.) She saw and conversed with apparitions, developed remarkable clairvoyant faculties, and dealt also in mysticism, describing intricate symbolical circle-systems. She was also the author of a primitive" language, constructed with some ingenuity, which purported to be that tongue, spoken by the patriarchs of old, wherein the words conveyed in some mystic manner the properties of the things they designated. Dr. Kerner and others were sometimes able to see Frau Hauffe's ghostly interlocutors, as dim grey pillars of cloud. Physical phenomena of a poltergeistic character were also of common occurrence in her presence.