Yoga is considered as a practice for improving and alleviating physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being. It can promote stress reduction, and weight loss, improve the sleep cycle, enhance muscle strength, and amplify the quality of life. It can also help with battling depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and controlling anger. What could be better than including …
Many different belief systems extol the virtues of selflessness, and that’s quite notable considering we’re living in a time in history when selfishness is now a more profound part of the human identity. It’s a situation that’s grown out of the way that the world has adopted western ideals all over. It is what it …
A greater level of understanding is always beneficial when the subject is related to spirituality. This is especially true when it’s something you’re taking an interest in of our own volition. Meaning you’re choosing to do that, and it is not required of you. There are all sorts of people who are enamored with yoga …
Showing respect and reverence for other human beings is always admirable, and with the true meaning of Namaste that is what it embodies. That it is – among other definitions – honouring the place in you that is the same as it is in me. That connects to the idea of their being a divinity …
There’s a lot of people who are skeptical about how yoga is good for you, and if we’re going to be honest about that majority of them. These are often the same people who think they couldn’t achieve that level of flexibility and control with their bodies if their lives depended on it. Well, that’s …
These days there many things that are indisputably true. One of them is that sensitivity around people’s cultures is at an all-time high. That’s not necessarily a bad thing – we can probably all agree that there are too many who are insensitive towards other people and how parts of their identity are extremely important …
If you’ve read any of the other previous entries here you’ll know that what Namaste means is essentially ‘I bow to you’. That’s why you’ll see people nod their head down slightly when they press their hands together in front of their chest and speak the salutation. We’ve also gone on at length that it …
There’s plenty of gestures used by humans around the globe and in different cultures that don’t involve hand movements, but hand gestures are usually incorporated in some way or another. It makes sense when you think about it, as not only are hands more naturally in someone’s line of sight given the height thing and …
Anjali Mudra Hand Gesture Forms Part of the Namaste Greeting Read More »
It’s fairly standard to know that Namaste is a greeting with its roots in Hindu and Sanskrit culture and that is means to indicate your acknowledging the spiritual soul of the other person. That’s what you’ll find if you do some digging on the meaning of Namaste, but what is not some easy to find …
Even people who are not familiar with the actual meaning of Namaste will at least understand that it’s a greeting. The way it’s done facing a person with your hands pressed together makes it clear that the person is acknowledging them, but for many people that’s all they know about what the Namaste saying and …
