Hatha yoga who famously studied with the yogis and other mystics. Hatha yoga remained popular in rural India. Negative impression for the Hatha yogis continued during the British colonial rule era. According to Mark Singleton, this historical negativity and colonial antipathy likely motivated Swami Vivekananda to make an emphatic distinction between "merely physical exercises of Hatha yoga" and the "higher spiritual path of Raja yoga". This common disdain by the officials and intellectuals slowed the study and adoption of Hatha yoga. Modern hatha yoga, of the type seen in the West, has been greatly influenced by the school of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who
Jnana Prabodhini at Andheri, Dadar, Bandra, Wada and Palghar. The Ambajogai extension center conducts programmes to activate the local youth for development of Ambajogai and its surrounding area. It facilitates 'Upasana' (meditation) centres and 'Vidyavrat' Samskar (vow of studentship) for the motivation building and attitude formation of youngsters. It houses a 'Shishuvihar' for the development of pre-primary students. The Ambajogai center is instrumental in formation of special purpose groups like the Maa Sharada group, Sphoorti group and Geeta Prabodhini and the 'Vivekwadi Campus' for Rural Development. Jnana Prabodhini Jnana Prabodhini () which means 'Awakener of Real Knowledge' in Sanskrit is a social