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Julieann Rohde
COVID-19 is spreading worldwide, confusion prevails, and some of the leaders of the advanced world seem to embrace a casual approach. We offer a simple pathway to guide that will reduce the virus spread. Coronavirus within the last seven months has brought the whole world to its knees.
Examine the situation in India: Migrant laborers/working populations are stranded with no job prospects. No way to get back to their home villages, many hundreds of miles away. And no access to medical care. This pandemic, affecting the developed and developing nations, has had the same level of impact.
It is time to reframe our approaches to daily living activities, more specifically, how we greet each other. A universal, symbolic one is the handshake. We need to reduce the communicability of infections.
Namaste dates back to the origins of the Indus valley civilization itself. The Terracotta figures and sculptures are depicting this gesture are dated back to 3000 years, even before the Christian Era. As civilizations blossomed and cultures intermingled, the namaste pose became even more widespread.
Aside from its simplicity, the namaste posture implicates mutual fairness. There is no prominent or submissive interpretation implied. Whereas, with a handshake, a person with a firmer grip is seen as more authoritative. In contrast, a person with a less firm grasp is seen as submissive. Namaste levels this field of cognitive conflicts.
The only expected interactive way to reciprocate to a namaste is with a namaste concurrently. It is simple to remember: respect demands respect. Namaste a universal value packed into a single interactive step.
We now realize that the handshakes and hugs need to take a backseat in light of the current coronavirus pandemonium. It is time that the namaste pose might become a universal form of greeting. It has gained significant traction in western civilizations. This step is a viable alternative to the potentially polluting handshakes, hugs, and fist bumps.
Dr. Akkaraju Sarma, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., Ph.D., has academic roots in Anthropology and Internal Medicine. He has practiced medicine in underserved areas in Philadelphia (37+ years). He leads the health & human services programs at Bharatiya Temple for a decade and help.
Part of teaching yoga is about continuous learning. I have recently been exploring concepts of cultural appropriation in yoga, reading and listening to Susanna Barkataki and several other Desi and Indian yoga teachers and researchers. One of the first articles I read by Susanna was about whether to use the word namaste to end a yoga class.
Susanna shared her views on this. She along with many others has suggested that it is a way for yoga teachers, to signal/signify yoga traditions without doing the hard work of truly understanding and incorporating the full traditions and roots of yoga in modern practice.
Breathing Deep And Diving In: Yoga And Cultural Appropriation by Anna Gunstone talks about her personal reflections of practicing yoga and exploring the history of yoga to try to avoid cultural appropriation. She provides some brief background about the colonisation of India which included banning yoga in attempts to erase Indian culture.
Doing away with namaste by Allyson Whipple, an American yoga teacher, talks about her journey of realising namaste is not traditionally said at the end of a yoga class and is a form of cultural appropriation, and how and why she stopped saying this to end her classes.
Yoga and the Roots of Cultural Appropriation by Shreena Gandhi and Lillie Wolff, US academics, briefly explore how yoga was colonised and progressively misappropriated in the US through commercialisation and capitalism, and the links with racism and white supremacy. Shreena Gandhi talks about these issues further and what she experienced after publishing the article, in the podcast Shreena Gandhi on White Supremacy.
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