Original sentence: In The West, hatha yoga has become popular as a purely physical exercise regimen divorced of its original purpose.Yoga when used as a form of alternative medicine is a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation, practiced for over 5,000 years
Edited sentence: Hatha Yoga is essentially a manual for scientifically taking one's body through stages of control to a point at which one-pointed focus on the unmanifested brahman is possible: it is said to take its practicer to the peaks of Raja Yoga.In The West, hatha yoga has become wildly popular as a purely physical exercise regimen divorced of its original purpose.It is through the forging a powerful depth of concentration and mastery of the body and mind, Hatha Yoga practices seek to still the mental waters and allow for apprehension of oneself as that which one always was, Brahman.Yoga has been used for medicinal purposes for over 5,000 years.Yoga when used as a form of alternative medicine is a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation