A talent recruiter leader in Seattle, Washington, Marlene Scott has served as a program lead with the Bellevue suburb offices of T-Mobile since 2017. She works with T-Mobile through Experis, a subsidiary of the multinational workforce solutions provider ManpowerGroup. In her free time, Marlene Scott is an avid yoga practitioner, often attending classes in Seattle.

Although yoga traditions seem to be as old as human civilization itself, the word “yoga” actually first appeared in print roughly 5,500 years ago in the oldest of Hinduism’s sacred texts, the Rig Veda. The first printed presentation of yoga’s physical postures, meditative practices, and ethical guidelines didn’t occur until the appearance of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in roughly 400 CE.

Drawing upon yoga’s rich, unwritten history, Patanjali created a series of systematic yoga practices that remain in widespread use today. His Yoga Sutras is divided into four chapters: the Samadhi Pada (which discusses concentration/meditation as a path to enlightenment), the Sadhana Pada (which discusses the Yamas and eight-limbed system of practice), the Vibhuti Pada (which discusses the power of achieved spiritual union), and the Kaivalya Pada (which discusses moksha or “liberation”).