Yoga teachers usually say the word Namaste, at the end of a yoga class – what does it mean?

Nama means bow and te means you. When the word is spoken the hands are brought together like prayer pose. The gesture and the word represent an acknowledgement of the light, the Divine, the soul in another. It is a deep form of respect. Here is one translation: I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells, I honor the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light and of peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are one.