I talk to and read about organizational consultants, coaches, and thinkers. More and more of them seem to be incorporating elements of Buddhism, meditation, and/or yoga into their own personal development, and then, by extension, into the practice of how they work with organizations.

I’m a member at Moksha Yoga Downtown, and do that insane hot yoga in a room heated to around 40 degrees. Yesterday I finished my first official 30 Day Challenge – 30 days in a row of heated yoga.

The mix of physical effort, sweat, and mind-calm and mind-stillness that comes with a 30 day commitment to a regular practice can, I think, be summed up by “deepening”. My physical strength has gone to a deeper level, but so has my ability to be with the present moment, and to let go of it when it passes. Loving my yoga practice, and then starting to hate it midway through the 30 days, and then starting to love it again as the rewards went deeper and richer – it was a metaphor for a relationship with life. Somewhere in there is a metaphor for working with, existing in, and co-creating organizations.