Sustainability & mindful business
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the global, social and environmental issues we face as we grapple with deadlines and the demands of technology in our daily working lives.
Yoga, a 3000-year-old tradition of mindfulness and sustainability, may hold the key to thriving in modern times. In particular, the concepts of advaita and ekagrata, both Sanskrit words, show the ancients had some tools that we may find useful today.
Advaita meaning: not two
A goal of yoga is to bring us into our bodies. We tend to see the mind and body as two separate entities, with TED Talk speaker Sir Ken Robinson talking about viewing our bodies as simply a way of getting our heads from meeting to meeting. But when we invites us to become one with our bodies. In doing so we come home. We are no longer disembodied minds rushing from meeting to meeting. We are mindful. Many people come to the yoga mat to stop being caught up in what we call the ‘monkey-mind’ and to become more present in the moment.
