Namaste

So, I've plugged exercisetv before. It's a great place to find free workouts that can be streamed to your computer (you can purchase them, too). There are TONS of different workouts, and all of varying length (2 minutes to 2 hours!).

Meaghan Townsend is a yoga instructor that has some free full-length yoga workouts. They are amazing great for getting your heart rate up, but also stretching. I really feel like my body is warm and limber after her workouts, and I love that I still feel like I've worked my body as hard as some of the floundering workouts I've done (Have I mentioned that I frequently feel like a fish flopping on the floor?)

At any rate, at the end of her workout, she says that it is customary to say "Namaste". She defines this as meaning, "All the goodness in me salutes all the goodness in you."

Although Wiki states that the translation really means "I bow (reverentially) to you."

There's something to saying that at the end of a workout. Maybe it's the subjecting the flesh to the control of the spirit- making my body do things it doesn't necessarily feel natural doing. Maybe that control allows my mind to be more open to other Spiritual things, and I am more comfortable greeting the goodness in others.

Or maybe, I'm just hypoxic from the workout.

Still, I know that frequently I feel like praying at the end of a workout. Not just the, "Thank you, God, that is OVER!" but more along the lines of prayers that are full of gratitude. More gratitude than requests, with which I frequently feel my prayers are overweighted.

I feel more settled in my mind, and although I am tired and probably sore, I'm ready for the next thing in life (hopefully a shower!)

And, as a Child of God, with you as my brothers and sisters, I love that at the end of a workout I am better ready to great all the goodness in you.

Namaste, my friends!