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What are Corporate yoga Classes?
Corporate yoga classes are an excellent way for your corporation to enhance worker well-being cost-effectively. These yoga classes help to strengthen, relax, and stretch, keeping your employees healthy, refreshed, and energized. With a team of friendly and expert yoga teachers, yoga sessions are created for advanced and complete beginner participants.
Corporate yoga sessions can be arranged to provide a break in the workday, de-stress at the end of the day, or prepare for the day ahead.
What Are The Benefits Of Corporate Yoga Classes?
Several benefits come with introducing corporate Yoga into your workplace. The main benefits include
- Increased Energy Levels. Sedentary workplaces are particularly at risk of decreasing blood circulation and increasing stress. The most common culprits are office jobs, where workers typically stay seated for 6-8 hours daily. Moderate stretching has been shown to increase blood circulation, raising energy levels. One of the core fundamentals of Yoga is stretching exercises performed through dynamic movements. It helps reduce stress and fatigue, which in corporate Yoga will help to keep employees alert and energized.
- Relief From "Desk Pain." Those in office jobs often spend hours slumped over their desks, which stretches the neck forward and rounds the spine. This posture is unhealthy because it is unnatural, and it can have serious impacts on posture. Back pain, neck pain, and shoulder stiffness are commonly reported symptoms interrupt productivity as workers struggle to get comfortable.
- Increased Focus Corporate life can be stressful with heavy workloads and looming deadlines. Mental clutter caused by stress and pressure can hinder decision-making and reduce concentration. The poses and meditative qualities found in Yoga can dissipate mental clutter, which makes employees more alert, more focused, and subsequently more productive. Yoga also improves blood circulation in the brain, which improves brain function and results in heightened concentration.
- Lessen Stress One of the benefits of traditional yoga practice is its ability to relax the body and calm the mind. Those who can think calmly often reason and are not quick to anger, which negates stress. Stress-free and calm employees will uphold a much more positive outlook on life and therefore be less likely to suffer the impact of negative behaviors.
- Increased Morale Highly stressful environments impact mental well-being, hampering employees' morale. Such an unhealthy environment can cultivate irritability and frustration among employees, which leads to heightened disagreements and affects motivation and productivity. Yoga can elevate employees' moods by reducing and relieving stress. It improves their mental and physical health, boosting confidence and motivation.
How Can Corporate Yoga Classes Help The Workplace?
- The corporate workplace can be highly stressful and demanding. More companies than ever before are signing up for employee assistance programs to negate the negative effects that such heightened levels of stress are having on their employees.
- Creating a healthy work environment improves employees' physical and mental health. One such factor in having a healthy work environment is to promote exercise. Exercise benefits all of us because it releases endorphins, making us less stressed and boosting our happiness levels.
- Yoga has long been accredited for its physical and mental health benefits. Yoga's poses and meditative qualities are hailed as holistic health benefits that can positively affect a person's health.
What Corporate Yoga Classes Taught?
- Asanas Yogasanas or Yoga poses rapidly burn away the stress that is physically stored in the muscles and keep severe illnesses at bay. They make you stronger and more agile.
- Pranayama Pranayama or Yogic breathing techniques rejuvenate the body and mind, so you feel energized and fresh throughout the day.
- Meditation Guided meditations are an effective form of conscious relaxation and calm the body and mind to achieve deep rest.
- Insight Explore some of the fascinating wisdom Yoga has to offer that will help you deal with day-to-day work-life challenges.
- Mudras Learn to use the breath to balance the five elements in your body and mind. Mudras are a simple key to health and well-being.
- Yogic Cleansing Experience Yogic cleansing processes help remove built-up toxins from the body, particularly emphasizing the respiratory and digestive systems.
How Does It Work?
- Corporate Yoga is offered in the workplace or online for international companies worldwide.
- Companies choose the time that fits their employees best.
- Early morning yoga / Lunchtime yoga / After work yoga
- Alternatively, Chair Yoga is a valuable and accessible option for those with little or no yoga experience who may be working at the computer all day.
- Yoga lessons are 45-60 min.
What to do when you feel sore after Yoga
- Do hydrate, then hydrate some more. Drink water, not sports drinks, says Amy C. Sedgwick, an emergency medicine doctor and Yoga Medicine certified yoga instructor in Portland, Maine. "We want to help increase our blood volume so this fluid can be distributed more easily to the tissues to allow transfer of nutrition, healing cells, and flushing out metabolic waste. Hydration is the way that happens."
- Do get plenty of sleep. Your body can't "gear down" without sleep and rest to allow for the parasympathetic nervous system (rest-and-digest mode) to be in charge, says Sedgwick. "Without enough sleep, the neuroendocrine system will not prime the body and tissues for repair and relief."
- Do exercise—gently. Exercise is the best way to relieve feeling sore after Yoga. She adds that doing the same muscle movements and sequences you did before feeling sore—but less intensely—can help relax muscle spasms and allow muscles, connective tissue, and joints to find a greater range of motion.
- Do take a hot bath. Not only does this feel great, but it helps to initiate the parasympathetic nervous system to reduce tension and allow the body to be in a state of healing, says Yeary.
What not to do when you feel sore after Yoga
- Don't take anti-inflammatory drugs. It may seem like a brilliant idea to pop an aspirin when you're feeling sore after Yoga, but it's not the best way to help speed your recovery, says Yeary. Inflammation is how the body responds to any type of injury, to properly repair any damaged tissue, you must have inflammation. If you remove that inflammation with a drug, you are hindering your body's natural healing mechanisms.
- Don't down caffeine and energy supplements. Sedgwick says that unless you're an ultra-endurance athlete, you are not likely to deplete your system so much that you need caffeine, energy drinks, or supplements. "This only adds unnecessary calories and other substances to a body that needs gentle movement, hydration, and rest," she says.
- Don't practice intense stretching when you feel sore after Yoga. Yeary says long, static stretches or over-stretching sore muscles can do more harm than good. "The tissues are already slightly damaged and working on healing." if you over-stretch your strengths and "wring them out" of all their fluids, you reduce their ability to heal and may even damage them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do employees need a Yoga background to take any of these classes?
We welcome everyone regardless of whether or not they have tried Yoga. Additionally, before a session begins, the instructors will converse briefly with those in the class to familiarize them with Yoga.
How many students can participate in the sessions?
We don’t set a boundary on the number of students – it all depends on the spaces accessible. We offer tailor-made classes to suit the needs of the participants.
What do we wear to yoga classes?
Any loose-fitted clothes will go that you feel comfortable in. Plus, Yoga is best practiced without socks and shoes.
How can a corporate yoga program benefit the employees?
The corporate yoga sessions will work at different levels, such as it will help correct postures, enhance interpersonal relationships, improve response towards pressure and stress, remove inner and outer obstacles, and also help in improving breathing.
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