Understanding Namaste Yoga

If you have ever walked through the sports, exercise and fitness section of a consumer electronics shop you have probably seen a number of DVDs on sale offering to instruct you in Namaste Yoga. Now, yoga is a word you are familiar with, but what about the “first name” of Namaste? What does that refer to?

Well, in order to understand what Namaste yoga is one need to realize that not all systems of yoga are identical. Now, this is not to infer that some styles of yoga are better than others (it would be best to let individual students make the decision on what is better for them based on their on personal experience), rather it is simply meant as a means of pointing out the fact that there are different styles and systems of yoga and each has their own special plan and methodology.

Of these various schools of thought and yoga study methods, the term Namaste yoga has been a term that many people have appropriated to describe a school of thought in regards to teaching yoga.