My husband keeps threatening to buy me a yogathemed tee-shirt with the slogan ‘namaste bitches’ on it. He’s just teasing; he knows I hate this kind of thing. But the popularity of yoga makes it a marketing dream and puns on yoga terms or Sanskrit words are common on all sorts of yoga paraphernalia. Some of them I think are really fun, some of them not so much…
I tread a line between wanting to demonstrate my love for the practice and a belief that I should also protect it in some way, to keep it elevated above the mundane. Shouldn’t we show yoga a certain amount of respect? While it might not be a spiritual practice for everyone, especially in the west, undeniably it has deep spiritual (if not religious) roots in origin.