Sat Nam translated means “I am That”. And I had a hard time finding more info on that translation - like, sorry I’m what? No really ‘what’. But I think I’ve figured something out here. ‘That’ refers to the little spark of Divine that we respect when we say ‘Namaste’ to each other.

That little spark is the essense of who we are - it’s my ‘corilee-ness’, it’s your ‘bob-ness’. It’s the part that if your friend could put it under a microscope, so to speak, she’d go ‘oh yeah that’s so Bob’. It’s the truth of who I am. But the problem is that we get all messed up in the stuff of our life, we get bogged down the problems and what needs to be fixed and we forget who we really are.

And it’s God-given because God can’t be Corilee and Bob. She’s God and she’s got stuff to do. So just a little piece of God rides side-car to experience a bit of who we are and what we go through. And it’s important because everything that happens is for a purpose. Not necessarily one we understand of course, but a purpose. And we can trust that. So Sat Nam is a nice way, especially after a good yoga session to remind ourselves that - yup we’re all that *and* and a bag of chips.

The best way is to say ‘Sat’ or make it ‘Sata’ to your self as you inhale and ‘Nam’ or ‘Nama’ to yourself as you exhale. So with every breath you can settle a little deeper into your ‘corilee-ness’ or your ‘bob-ness’ and let all that other stuff go. Just breath and be who we really are.