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How dance helps me deal with stress

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Yami Joshi |

TED@UPS

• September 2015

Yami Joshi had just landed a dream job and a placement in graduate school when she got into a complex relationship ... with stress. In this delightful talk followed by a riveting eight-person dance, Joshi demonstrates how the cleansing qualities and symbolism of a two thousand year-old classical Indian dance can be a cure for our modern-day anxieties.

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Yami Joshi had just landed a dream job and a placement in graduate school when she got into a complex relationship ... with stress. In this delightful talk followed by a riveting eight-person dance, Joshi demonstrates how the cleansing qualities and symbolism of a two thousand year-old classical Indian dance can be a cure for our modern-day anxieties.

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About the speaker

Yami Joshi

Organizational specialist

Yami Joshi is an organizational development specialist at UPS, where she develops and implements organizational strategies to improve the employee experience. Deeply involved in UPS’s Women’s Leadership Development Group, Joshi dedicates herself to learning how she can grow leadership capabilities in others. Outside of her work and studies, she's a certified Indian classical dancer, specializing in the dance form Bharatanatyam, which she has taught to students between the ages of 5 and 12.

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