This name has a profound meaning that embody each of us, let me tell you why. And apologise my english, I am Italian.
Namastribe is the cohesion of two words: namaste’and tribe. The world namaste has sanskritic origin (namas means I bow, te means you) and it literally means: ‘’I bow to you’’. In the philosophy of yoga it means: “My soul see and bow to your, I am thankful for your existence”. I love it, I find it so humble and simple!
One day, while we were deciding a name for our community, I was reading one of my favourite and most inspirational newsletter, Rob Brezsny’s. He was giving some nice made up words, on of these was Namscray: ‘namas + crazy’: “my crazy soul meet your crazy soul and thank it for its craziness” I found it so beautiful and funny and I thought that our community should somehow represent this meaningful respect to the member of the tribe.
Therefore Namastribe is the union between Namaste, Namascray and Tribe, were tribe represent the wild and nature. Namastribe unite all these people who, like us, want to throw themselves headlong, get out of their comfort zone, travel alone, stay in nature, discover and reconnect with their true self, without worrying or caring about prejudgement, but enjoying life in their own way. We live in a world that go fast, too fast. In this world, superficiality and prejudgement win. Then Covid-19 arrived, we got stuck at home, forced to spend even more time in the virtual and impatient world, keeping us way from people, relationship and so ourselves.
We are loosing the contact with who we really are, we think more about who we want to look like, we constantly compare our life with the life of others. We are living in the era of individualism, swinging between two opposites: the homogenisation and the anonymity of the mass on one side and the appeal for eccentricity to the other side.
But…the belonging to a community is lost. remember, it is interdependence and relationship that make us survive! Nature, yoga and sport are disciplines that bring us closer to our inner self, they make us feel in peace with what surround us, make us feel part of the same thing. Namastribe is a community that love life, that want to have real relationship. Where people want pure connection with themselves and with others without prejudgements.
We believe that a world that honour and is grateful for the existence of the others, and recognise every person unicity, it is a better world.
It is world that create real connection, that are made in and part of Nature, awarding to it the key of our wonderful existence.
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