The Yoga Tutor

Namasté
[ Excerpt from The Science of Yoga, page 14 ]

Namasté is such a beautiful word. When two Indians greet each other, they place their palms together and hold them at the middle of their chest in a beautiful gesture called namaskara mudra, and they say namasté (naa maa stay), or namaskara (naa maa scar ahh).

The Sanskrit word namaskara literally means "I see God working through you." The more commonly used word today, namasté, means similarly "I witness God, or the Divine Essence within you."

It can also be seen as a beautiful way of simply saying, "the Divine in me recognizes the Divine in you!" What a wonderful way to greet someone!

Namasté my Divine friend, and welcome to the Yoga Life! I offer you my pranams (blessings) and I'm excited to embark on this journey with you.

Rest assured that I will guide you throughout this training program, to the best of my ability, along the wonderful road of discovery that is the yogic path.
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Foreword
About Yoga Home Study
Section 1 - Getting Started
Section 2 - Foundations of Yoga (1)
Section 3 - Foundations of Yoga (2)
Section 4 - Classical Ashtanga Yoga
Section 5 - Modern Yoga
Section 6 - The History of Yoga
Section 7 - Yama Niyama Introduction
Section 8 - Awareness
Section 9 - The Yoga Diet
Section 10 - Yoga Philosophy
Section 11 - The Yoga of Perception
Section 12 - The Yoga Path
Section 13 - The Virtue of Restraint
Section 14 - The Classical Yoga Texts
Section 15 - Yoga Cleansing
Section 16 - The Law of Cause and Effect
Section 17 - The Yoga of Digestion
Section 18 - Yoga Psychology
Section 19 - Yoga Psychology (Part 2)
Section 20 - Yoga Psychology (Part 3)
Section 21 - Yoga Psychology (Part 4)
Section 22 - Controlling The Senses
Section 23 - The Higher Stages of Yoga
Section 24 - Higher Stages of Yoga (Part 2)