WORKPLACE YOGA

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What is Yoga?
✓ Yoga is a practice that connects mind and body to work together in
harmony.

✓ Yoga postures or “asanas” strengthen and relax our bodies, as well

as improve flexibility

✓ Yoga helps you refocus your attention on what’s truly important and
stretches your body that’s tense and stiff from sitting for long peri-
ods hunched over a keyboard

✓ Corporations have found their employees are more productive,

communicative and make fewer mistakes when they participate in a
form of yoga during their workday

✓ The benefits of yoga in the workplace are many and varied. Yoga in
the office improves:

o Overall health which results in fewer missed sick days

o Creative thinking and smart decision making

o Clarity, focus, and alertness

o Work satisfaction, office morale, and positive thinking

Why Yoga?
✓ Yoga is the perfect combination of movement and stress reduction
for the fast-paced corporate setting

✓ Benefits to companies who offer yoga in the workplace include:

o Decreased health care premiums
 o Reduced staff turnover

o Increased productivity

o Higher job satisfaction in employees

o Reduced employee absenteeism

o More attractive company to potential employees

o Lowers number of workman comp claims

o Improves camaraderie

✓ Benefits to employees who take part in yoga sessions available in

their workplace include:

o Increases energy and vitality

o Reduces stress, anxiety, and fatigue

o Reduces muscle tension and pain

o Improves memory, mental clarity, and focus

o Improves overall health

o Reduces back, shoulder and neck pain and stiffness

o Improves immunity

o Increases morale

o Improves efficiency and motivation

o Improves muscle tone, flexibility, and posture

o Lower burn out rate

o Less aggression and hostility

Science Says Yoga Works
✓ Immediately after class, studies show:
o Enhanced Brain Function

o Modified Gene Expression

o Improved Flexibility

o Lower Blood Pressure

o Less Chronic Neck and Back Pain

o Lower Anxiety Levels

o Balances Blood Sugar

o Stronger Bones

o Reduces Risk of Heart Disease

Top Yoga Streaming Sites

✓ You can find all manner of online yoga classes that you can take
with you wherever you go—including to the office. Here’s a short
list of three popular sites you might want to check out

o Grokker

o Gaia (Formerly Gaiam TV)

o Yoga Download

Desk Yoga
✓ Desk yoga poses are exactly that—postures that have been modified
so we can do them even when we are stuck behind a desk all day
✓ There are many poses that can be done at your desk or in a chair
including:

o Seated Crescent Moon Pose

o Wrist and Finger Stretches

o Chair Pigeon Pose

o Stand and Sit Chair Pose

o Desk Chaturanga

o Desk Upward Dog Pose

o Desk Plank Pose