The similarities between yoga and technology continue over at ISHTA.
Last week, I wrote about yoga as a form of spiritual technology. In our Saturday lecture, Alan Finger talked to us about the subtle body (the energy lines within us that connect us to a greater intelligence), and its linkages between our karma and our physical body. He spoke about these energy bodies as things waiting to be double-clicked. Once we open up these energy channels, we find they are able to pull in information that is beyond our own experience. By freeing these channels, we literally tap in to something greater than ourselves.
Sound too hippy dippy yoga for you? Steve Jobs didn’t think so.
Think about your computer, and specifically think about a Mac (just because Alan and I both love our Macs.) Think of its intelligence and the way it ladders information. We don’t have code cluttering our desktops, do we? Of course not. The code is contained in programs. We open programs and we’re able to tap into different capabilities and functionality available at different levels within the programs installed on the computer. Computers pull from different systems, guided by our physical directions, our double-clicks from the mouse or track pad.
Our yoga is the same way. Our physical actions, our asanas, allow us to link into the different layers of programs installed in our being. Some of them relate to our physical body, mind, spirit, or energy channels. How a computer works is based very much on how we work, and yet we are so much more intricate, so much more amazing, than any machine will ever be. Steve Jobs understood that fact to a frightening degree and it fueled his creativity. He made machines more human.
The technologies we love so much are a reflection of our fascination with things so complex that lie at the outer edges of our comprehension. We are our greatest experiment, our greatest tool for discovery. Go within and really wonder at what you find. We are amazing!
The short of it:
Writer. Health, education, and art advocate. Theater and film producer. Visual artist. Product geek. Proud alumnae of the University of Pennsylvania (BA) and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia (MBA). Inspired by ancient wisdom & modern tech. Proliferator of goodness. Opener of doors. Friend to animals. Fan of creative work in all its wondrous forms. I use my business skills to create passion projects that build a better world. I’ve been called the happiest New Yorker, and I try hard to live up to that title every day.
The long of it:
My career has stretched across Capitol Hill, Broadway theatre, education, nonprofit fundraising, health and wellness, and Fortune 500 companies in retail, media, entertainment, technology, and financial services. I’ve been a product developer and product manager, theater manager, strategic consultant, marketer, voice over artist, , teacher, and fundraiser. I use my business and storytelling to support and sustain passion projects that build a better world. In every experience, I’ve used my sense of and respect for elegant design to develop meaningful products, services, programs, and events.
While building a business career, I also built a strong portfolio as a journalist, novelist, freelance writer, interviewer, presenter, and public speaker. My writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, PBS.org, Boston.com, Royal Media Partners publications, and The Motley Fool on a wide range of topics including business, technology, science, health, education, culture, and lifestyle. I have also been an invited speaker at SXSW, Teach for America, Avon headquarters, Games for Change, NYU, Columbia University, Hunter College, and the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. The first book in my young adult book series, Emerson Page and Where the Light Enters, was acquired by a publisher and launched in November 2017. I’m currently working on the second book in the series.
A recovering multi-tasker, I’m equally at home in front of my Mac, on my yoga mat, walking my rescue dog, Phineas, traveling with a purpose, or practicing the high-art of people watching. I also cut up small bits of paper and put them back together as a collage artist.
My company:
I’m bringing together all of my business and creative career paths as the Founder of Double or Nothing Media:
• I craft products, programs, and projects that make a difference;
• I build the business plans that make what I craft financially sustainable;
• I tell the stories that matter about the people, places, and products that inspire me.
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4 thoughts on “Leap: Steve Jobs Built the Mac Based on Yoga”
I love these parallels. Thanks Christa. (I love my Mac, too.)
Christa Avampato 
I love these parallels. Thanks Christa. (I love my Mac, too.)
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Me, too! I love them!
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Thank you Christa. As a yoga teacher and spiritual seeker who has just taken a job in technology, I greatly appreciated finding these wise words.
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I’m so glad it was helpful to you. I love drawing parallels between yoga and technology in my life and work!
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