The Need For Corporate Yoga

Summary: This article aims to elucidate its readers about the benefits of yoga at the workplace. Yoga is an extremely potent way to alleviate stress, strengthen the body and intensifying the overall health of a person. Additionally, yoga is extremely effective in curing various mental health issues and bringing peace to an individual. The consistent practitioners significantly speak about the powerful effects of yoga. Introducing employees to the science of yoga shall greatly benefit them on both physiological and psychological level. Employees spend their entire day sitting in front of the computer screens. Over time, this desk-bound job becomes a slow poison and gives rise to various health and mental problems. Employees face issues like a sore back, overall stiffness in the body, carpal tunnel syndrome, obesity, etc. Gradually, productivity and creativity begin to waver as the day wears on. Whether an employee dedicates an hour to daily yoga practice at the office or just blocks in five minutes throughout the day to perform some stretching exercises at the desk, the benefits of yoga will be shown. Owing to the wonders it offers to the employees, it becomes imperative for the employers to make yoga an inseparable part of the corporate life. Here are some benefits of the corporate yoga that employees can reap if they start practicing yoga in their office: Take a glance at the list: 1.Bust Office Related Stress: For corporate people, stress has become synonymous with their lives. Hectic work schedules, unreasonable deadlines, volatility, increasing competition, etc. place an employee under extreme stress and anxiety. A safe, cost-effective alternative to pills is the practice of yoga that decreases the development of cortisol (stress hormone) and enables a person to calm down. The practice of meditation techniques, breathing exercises allow the workaholics to loosen up and let go off all the work-stress. It allows them to focus on the present moment and experience absolute bliss. 2.Relief from Body Ache and Back Pain: Our bodies are not designed to sit for prolonged hours at a place. Sitting or crouching at the desks for an abnormally long time has negative effects on the body. Employees often complain about persisting back, shoulder, and neck pain, excruciating body aches, poor posture and so many corporeal problems. The practice of yoga postures on daily basis stretches and strengthens the muscles; improves the blood circulation in the spinal region thus providing relief from physical health problems.

3.Improve Employee Performance: When stress is released, the mind is calm, there is clarity of thought and the brain is more focused. This implies better time management, timely task completion, improved decision-making moments and sharp problem-solving skills are executed. Who doesn't want a team of excellent performers? 4.Get the creative juices flowing: There is no doubt a restless mind and overworked body lead to unproductive and sterile results. A few minute of yoga practice can still the wavering mind of a person and infuse them with new vigor. Practicing the corpse pose takes you in a state of relaxation which is important for your creative juices to flow. When employees are refreshed they may think out of new strategies and fresh ideas for working things out. 5.Better Analytical Skills: Strong analytical skills and well -crafted decisions are the byproducts of focused and balanced mind. What better way than yoga to maintain the body-mind equilibrium and poignant focus. 6.Greater Employee Retention: Corporate yoga is not only a method of increasing productivity, lowering stress levels, but it is an integration of a new, healthy work culture. When employees feel an element of relaxation, joy, and attention to their needs at the current workplace, the likelihood of job change tends to be less.

Grant your employees the gift of endless strength, heightened vigor, and enhanced mental tranquility by making yoga a crucial part of a corporate regimen.

The Author is a passionate Yogi, traveler and Yoga Teacher in Delhi. He loves writing and reading the books related to yoga, health, nature and the Himalayas.