How do you say "Namaste" in Hebrew?

As my sister-in-law Amy recently became a certified yoga and unknowingly inspired me to try it out. So yesterday I went to my first ever yoga class. (I'm not counting the McDonald's yoga DVD I tried once, I don't think McDonald's qualifies as yoga.)

I was supposed to walk or lightly jog a little less than a mile to get to the class and when I realized it was more like a two mile run (in 90* weather) I started to realize this may be a wee bit more difficult than I anticipated. The studio was in a basement on a very hip street and the instructor spoke English. Unlike my McDonald's DVD which is very calm and pleasant sounding, this instructor went pretty fast and sounded a bit like a depressed/bored secretary.

About 20 minutes into the class, as my friend and I are balancing like a stork on one foot with our bodies flat and perpendicular, tucking our chins down to look at our back foot, do we notice a great big beetle crawling towards our mats. I giggle as the beetle heads the other way annoying the yoga expert in front of me. Oops. 5 minutes later he returned. I quietly tip-toed to the back of my room to grab my shoe (you do yoga barefoot) and quietly brushed the bug away from our mats, careful not to interrupt the class. WHACK! Okay - so I interrupted the class but the bug was dead. Namaste.

The class continued well and with about 20 minutes left the expert in front of me looked back - I think to make sure I was still alive as I hadn't interrupted her recently. Lucky for me the pose the instructor had just told us to do was a stretch I've been doing since 6th grade before every soccer game or practice. Who's the expert now!?! Well she trumped me five minutes later when everyone was standing on their head and balancing on their elbows...that was a bit beyond my skill level.