5 Powerful Mantras to add to your Yoga Practice 

Yoga Studio Calgary • January 25, 2019

Mantras can be a powerful addition to our yoga practice and to our daily lives. Mantras are a resonating word or series of words that we repeat inwardly or outwardly, to affirm and allow the meaning to imbed into our subconscious and intuitive beings. This helps to shift our negative actions, habits, and patterns into constructive, positive, and beneficial ones.

Below are 5 encouraging Mantras and their meanings for you to incorporate into your daily practices:

OM

OM signifies Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment. OM is the universal energy from which we all come from, reside in, and return to. OM is to see and recognize this light within ourselves and one another.

Om Namah Shivaya

Praise to Shiva with all our heart, soul, body, energy and intellect. Shiva is the god most widely recognized as the god of destruction ( transformation ) .I bow to Shiva, the supreme deity of transformation who represents the truest, highest self.

Om Gum Ganapatayei Namah

I bow to Ganesh who is the remover of all obstacles. I ask for blessings and protection.

Om Shantih

I invite peace and silence into my self, my life, and into those of all others.

Sat Nam

I am truth, or, truth is my essence.

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