Mantras in yoga group classes

Mantras are an important tool in our "Yoga Toolbox". However, it is not always easy to find the right approach for participants of our culture. Not everyone is immediately enthusiastic about singing syllables or words in an unknown language. In my personal experience as a student and a teacher, it is important that we relate or resonate with what we are chanting. so that we have more than an intellectual connection to the meaning.