“Fasting works in a similar manner in that it decreases serotonin produced in the enterochromaffin cells and thus decreases the amount available to block cell signaling in the synaptic cleft, which allows unresolved emotional issues to surface.”
Yeah you don’t eat you get crabby and your defense mechanisms drop...torturers and interrogators right back to the first person who ever beat another with a stick knew about that one!
Actually, the original purpose of hatha yoga as taught in the Vedas is to calm and strengthen the body and mind to make them a more fit vehicle to render service to God.
Much of the “yoga literature” is tainted with Mayavada philosophy, or impersonalism, (You are God-ism, God is a formless void, etc) which was not the original intent, nor was it the view point of the ancients.
A person can practice hatha yoga for general good exercise that not only strengthens the body but helps the glands, circulation and is also very relaxing and calming to the mind.
It is not evil and not contradictory in any way to the teachings of Jesus.