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By Ren\u00e9e Tillotson<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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When our family member Diana arrived in Mumbai, India, she and her cohort of yoga teacher trainees were enveloped in blossoms. Literally. She had landed in the\"\" middle of a joyous, devotional festival in which people were pouring thousands – no, probably millions – of flowers over statues of deities and over one another. It felt like something out of a dream!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think of Diana as deep into her Silicon Valley job. When said she was going to India to take a yoga teacher training, I was startled. Wait. This is a successful young businesswoman from the tech \"\"industry\u2026 How does it happen that SHE wants to learn yoga in India???\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is there something about the Tech world that I don\u2019t understand? I got curious.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, you don\u2019t go to India for teacher training if you don\u2019t want to go deep into the practice. You\u2019re not likely to get a sanitized \u201cyoga without the om – we teach you 99 ways to turn yourself into a pretzel\u201d American version of yoga. Not that all American yoga teacher trainings are like that, nor are all Indian teacher trainings deeply spiritual. Yet India is the homeland of this ancient and highly philosophical practice.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I have never considered the world of technology to be a particularly spiritual environment\u2026 hmmm\u2026 I thought to myself, am I ready to bust through my stereotypes? Heck yes!<\/span><\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t wait to hear Diana\u2019s story! Did she go to the yoga teacher training DESPITE the fact that she comes from the tech industry, or in part BECAUSE she\u2019s in tech?<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Indian friend Peeyush Kumar, a frequent guest at our Still & Moving Center conversations and meditation sessions, works at Microsoft – the grand dame of much of the software world. He says that the people around him are very busy with very busy brains. In fact, I had to wait until 9 pm on a Monday evening for a conversation with him. Then he had to jump off at 10 pm for his next meeting! So his first response to my question was: \u201cDespite\u201d. Diana went to India for yoga DESPITE working in tech.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what was it that drew someone out of a very engaging life in the business world to a more interior, reflective experience?\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Diana is one of the more \u201csuccessful\u201d young business people I know, always a yearly winner of a trip to Mexico or Hawai\u2019i as one of her company\u2019s most effective employees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Why, of all things, did this top-notch businesswoman choose to take three weeks of her vacation time to study yoga on the Sub-Continent?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be more attractive to go sample Italian wines in Tuscany? Or ski her heart out on this year\u2019s excellent snows in Sun Valley, Idaho? Nope. Diana flew to India to attend a 200-hour yoga teacher training in an eco-village.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it was one of the most impactful experiences of her life.<\/span><\/p>\n

As it turns out, Diana has been practicing yoga for about a decade, starting with a teacher in Los Angeles when she was a dance major in college and needed something that would actually take care of her body and calm her mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI now see that what was driving me to my yoga mat was the deep, spiritual\"\" connection it gave me to myself. But at that time I didn\u2019t know why it gave me so much joy, balance, and happiness,\u201d Diana muses. \u201cI really wanted to find that out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people in the West brush over seven out of the eight limbs of yoga and present yoga as a mainly physical practice. The tradition of yoga, however, is much more profound. About 2500 years ago an Indian philosopher named Patanjali canonized the yogic teachings into what he called the \u201ceight limbs\u201d of yoga. Only one of the sections consists of the physical postures, another constitutes the breathing practice, and all the rest are spiritual and philosophical approaches to living and meditating through life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"So, of course, if Diana were to study yoga in its place of origin, she might learn why yoga was having such a transformative effect upon her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Approaching my question, Diana explains that she went to her YTT (Yoga Teacher Training) in part BECAUSE her company sponsors a Recharge program for their employees to leave work for a while and dive into an interest of their choice – maybe a guitar-making retreat or archeological trip to a remote spot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hmm\u2026 I wonder why a tech company would sponsor such a program?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCreativity is really celebrated in this industry – no matter what avenue we take to\"\" achieve innovation. What\u2019s important is unlocking our creative side,\u201d Diana tells me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ah\u2026. as she says this, I realize that I\u2019ve had an image lodged in my mind for decades of computer nerds who just want you to leave them alone in a room with computer equipment and occasionally slide pizza under the door. Boy oh boy! Just look at that stale old stereotype tucked away in my brain! And Diana is taking a sledgehammer right through it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Diana continues: \u201cThere\u2019s a well-known entrepreneurship book called Zero to One by Peter Thiel that I love. It was one of the books I read in college that inspired my career path toward tech. He points out that just bringing an existing idea from one context to another is unoriginal, just a matter of going from \u201c1 to 1\u201d – meaning horizontal progress. But he says that the goal in tech and innovation is to go from \u201c0 \"\"to 1\u201d, vertical progress. That is, we are creating something from nothing, the first of its kind. We\u2019re trying to operate at a higher level of creativity here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It certainly seems true to me that exposing oneself to an exotically different culture with music, chanting, dancing, brilliant colors, and sensational food would wake up creative, expansive aspects of ourselves. I just had never\"\" thought about how all the evolutionary changes in technology require an imaginative frame of mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I ask Diana, \u201cDo you think that folks in tech are more used to dealing with abstract thought than in a lot of other businesses, such as the garment industry, the hospitality industry, or agriculture, for example?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cDefinitely,\u201d she replies. \u201cWhen I\u2019m teaching our clients how to use our software, it\u2019s not something you can see, physically. It\u2019s all in your mind. That abstract thought is not for everybody. In fact, a co-worker of mine just couldn\u2019t handle how when something went wrong with the software, she couldn\u2019t see what was not working and couldn\u2019t even see what happened when it was fixed. It drove her crazy. Now she\u2019s in real estate: What you see is what you get. She loves it!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her friend literally needed to put her feet on the ground, on pieces of land. Diana finds her \u201cgrounding\u201d in a different way: on her yoga mat.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Diana also describes the high-stress environment of the information industry. Nothing stays the same. Shifts take place at a mercurial speed. \u201cSo going to my mat is part of what allows me to succeed in this business,\u201d Diana reflects. \u201cWhen I\u2019m practicing yoga, my breathing\u00a0deepens and I feel myself getting grounded, calm, and centered. It\u2019s a huge help to survive the volatility of my work environment.\u201d So it\u2019s partly BECAUSE she\u2019s in tech that she needed to go deeper into yoga.<\/span><\/p>\n

I then learn that Steve Jobs went to India, converted to Buddhism and became a practitioner of Zen meditation\u2026 and founded the Apple computer company. Maybe I am onto something about this tech \/ inner reflection bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our friend Peeyush concurs: \u201cSoftware is the world of ideas. At this point in human\"\" history, this work environment is where more numinous thought is available to people. We\u2019re dealing with nearly limitless possibilities. Lots of people around me see the value of meditating – if not for spirituality, at least for settling their minds. And people here are starting to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) to venture into realms like poetry, which they\u2019ve never gone to before. And I actually got into yoga – and the deeper aspects of yoga – through an Indian friend of mine at Microsoft whose family for generations have been storytellers of Hindu mythology.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aha! In my experience, the mythical relates to the mystical. So there is a possible connection between the abstract thought needed for software and the abstract thought needed for meditational and spiritual practices as taught by yoga.<\/span><\/p>\n

So that\u2019s another BECAUSE vote on why Diana went to India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Diana eventually solicited the help of her first yoga teacher in LA to learn that his teacher Kumi was giving a 200-hour YTT in India. That did it! Diana signed on the dotted line!<\/span><\/p>\n

Arriving in Mumbai and visiting the Elephanta caves transported her back, back, back to ancient times, the likes of which we don\u2019t experience here in the States.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Including the Krishna festival with flower abundance, these two quintessentially Indian experiences served as her launchpad, as Diana set out over narrow, winding, crowded roads to Govardhan eco-village.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

The eco-village with its twenty temples charmed her. As she learned some of the Hindu mythology, it dawned on her that all the vibrant Indian celebrations she had attended with a college friend of hers actually have deep spiritual significance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy intention was to be open to learn and not judge, ready to receive,\u201d Diana shares with me. \u201cI\u2019m grateful for that mindset. I received more than I ever asked for. I was \"\"open to share my life experience and others were open with me. Our conversations connected us at a deep level. Being in a place with so much spiritual energy was like nothing I had experienced before. I think in our Western life, maybe we have walls up. I was wide open in India.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI got so many answers there, and so many more questions!\u201d she concludes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Diana\u2019s experience has taken me on a thought journey, challenging a lot of\"\" assumptions I didn\u2019t even know that I held. How fascinating! I now see that working in a field that I normally associate with just making a lot of money might actually lead a person to ask significant questions about themselves and life. The open space of abstract thinking can provide new vistas into who we really are and what\u2019s actually important to us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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