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# [Gallery Walk Yoga](https://blog.peerinsight.com/blog/gallery-walk-yoga)

 Written by [Tim Ogilvie](https://blog.peerinsight.com/blog/author/tim-ogilvie) | June 28, 2016 1:33:53 PM Z

 You’ve heard of yoga. Maybe you’ve even practiced yoga. What kind? There’s Hatha yoga, Shavasana, yoga, even hot yoga.

But have you done *gallery walk yoga*?

In our book *[Designing for Growth](https://amzn.com/0231158386),* Jeanne Liedtka and I make the case for using a “gallery walk” to help teams make sense of large amounts of disparate data. You take all your customer journey maps, user profiles, personas, value chains, the kitchen sink – whatever – and hang it on the walls of a room like an art gallery.

And that’s when you should try *gallery walk yoga*. It uses a simple sequence of three poses:

## 1.     **Reflecting** – looking at the data with your internal pattern-sensor running

## 2.     **Insight** – *kzzzztttt!*  (that moment when a connection sparks)

## 3.     **Authoring** – write it down on a post-it!

Here’s what I looked like doing *gallery walk yoga* at a recent sense-making session in Atlanta:

Give it a try and drop me a note on how it worked for you. You can reach me at [togilvie@peerinsight.com](mailto:togilvie@peerinsight.com).

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