Most of the serious meditation people I've run into have been men. Is serious meditation actually gendered in this way or do I just have a skewed sample?
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On the average men live more in their head, women live more in their body, and prefer tools that help them connect with that.
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Yes, yoga retreats are even more dominated by women than meditation retreats are dominated by men.
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This sounds exactly like the thing someone who spends a lot of time in their head would say
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On first glance I would guess it's social? Yoga tends to be social, meditation more isolationary.
To apply the crudest of analogies, the traditional roles are: women are core infrastructure, men are experiments.
Core infrastructure requires less variance and more connectivity. Experiments require more variance, and less connectivity to reduce their potential blast radius.
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