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At the San Jose Mercury-News, Mike Cassidy considers the case of a yoga instructor contracted to Facebook who was fired for giving someone a dirty look for using a cell phone during yoga class. According to her boss, she had been warned that cell phones are sacrosanct in Silicon Valley.

Cassidy comments:

And I hate to sound stubborn, but I’m not sure the policy of barring instructors from instructing students to behave as if there are others sharing the planet with them makes any difference to my bigger point: Smartphones have become a rudeness accelerant. Too often, too many use them to talk, type or text at times and in places where civility would dictate that they stop it, stop it, stop it.

Whether you view yoga as an integral aspect of a spiritual experience, as in its Hindu roots, or as a form of fitness regimen to release the “relaxation response,” as in the Western spin, it is difficult to see how cell phones contribute to mindfulness and meditation.

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