Yoga Workshop
Submitted by divine_sysop on November 30, 2009 - 04:26
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Yoga Workshops And Their Role In Corporate Environment
Benefits of yoga are fast being acknowledged all over the world. This ancient Indian form of meditation with exercise has caught on to the imagination of people belonging to various spheres of life such as students, sportspersons, celebrities and corporate professionals.
Corporate Yoga Workshops
Yoga helps in promoting wellness and relieving workplace stress by offering simple, practical and safe techniques for quickly improving employee well-being. Implementation of workplace yoga workshops is simple and cost effective. These workshops are specially designed keeping in mind the specific requirements of the workplace. Yoga helps in promoting focus, clarity, positive thinking and self-awareness. Such workshops serve as a great platform for fostering good interpersonal relationships and encouraging team building.
Ingredients of Yoga Workshops
A corporate yoga workshop is an important ingredient of corporate wellness programs and emphasizes on identifying stress signals, improving concentration and flexibility, tension management through posture management and relaxation exercises, supporting effective mood management through breathing techniques and strength building. The positive by-products of these techniques include freedom from tension, headaches, anxiety, fatigue, depression, back pain and insomnia.
Where It Fits?
The question that comes to ones mind that how yoga workshops fit into todays hectic corporate environment? Well, they can be incorporated on any event day or on a daily basis. For instance, small yoga mini-breaks in between multi-day conferences or seminars help in increasing energy, focus and productivity of participants.
Daily sessions can be held during morning, lunchtime or post working hours so that normal work does not get affected. Normally, these yoga workshops are divided into 8-12 sessions during a month with each session lasting 30 to 60 minutes depending upon individual requests and requirements.
Event based yoga workshops usually have smaller sessions with the focus primarily being upon energy and fun whereas everyday workshops are longer and focused on elaborate postures and breathing techniques. Employees can practice yoga anytime during their normal working hours, even while sitting at their desk, depending on the availability of time. Meditation is one such exercise that does not require a lot of space.
Other Benefits
One of the biggest problems of todays corporate professionals is sluggishness and obesity on account of their being predominantly involved in sedentary work. Yoga asanas help in stimulating glands for increase in hormonal secretion. Certain postures directly affect the thyroid gland responsible for body metabolism. It also helps in increasing fat metabolism for facilitating its conversion into energy, leading to better vitality and muscle tone.
Irrespective of your job type, whether sedentary or not, relief from pain, distress and hypertension is the biggest benefit that yoga workshops can bring you. Yogic breathing helps in reducing pain and distress by regulating the brains pain center and augmenting self-awareness. Gentle pressures and slow motion movements of yoga, coupled with breathing techniques help in relieving muscle tension that causes tightening of joints.
Yoga exercises may look simple but their positive effects on health and wellness have resulted in their wide acceptance among modern exercising regimens. So next time there is a yoga workshop in your office, make sure you do not give it a miss.
