Yoga At Your Office (or Home)
 
Our personalized yoga sessions focus on your individual needs. There are many different styles of Hatha yoga. We start with an individual assessment so that we may teach you a series of asana and breathing techniques appropriate to yield your desired outcome/goal. If interested, we can also incorporate the practical and philosophical concepts of Raja, Bhakti and Jnana Yoga.

On-Location/Corporate Yoga
Comprehensive yoga classes offered at your chosen location --easy to accommodate in any large room.  Great for businesses, mother groups, neighborhood groups, bridal showers, etc!

Prices vary according to class size
Great, easy to implement, budget-friendly solution for innovative companies invested in their employees

"It's like a trip to the gym, the shrink and the spa all in about an hour."  Says a participant in a corporate yoga program offered at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (as quoted in their newsletter, September 5, '02) 

A few of the many important benefits to employees:

• Improved energy and vitality
• Greater levels of concentration and memory
• A calmer mind, dramatically reduced stress level and a greater sense of well-being
• Improved sleep habits
• Lowered blood pressure
• Reduced back pain (greater comfort at desk)
• Increased physical strength and fitness.

  And a few of the many benefits to employers:

• Reduction of employee sick days
• Improved employee productivity and creativity
• Enhanced employee decision-making skills/more productive responses to interpersonal challenges
• Greater employee job satisfaction and morale
• Improved teamwork, communication and cooperativeness
• Reduced employee turn-over numbers
• Very easy to accommodate in your existing setting

Additionally, many of the yoga techniques can be practiced at the desk and may dramatically improve the many problems associated with sitting at a computer for several hours.

Corporate Yoga, as an employee benefit and preventative health measure, is being embraced by many progressive businesses around the country.  It takes very little to accommodate a class, and classes are customized to meet the needs, interests and time and space demands of the company. Many companies simply move the chairs out of the way in large conference rooms, others may opt to keep rooms in tact and simply offer stretching, breathing and relaxation techniques that can be taught while employees sit in chairs, still in their work clothes.

Many Fortune 500 and other innovative companies, such as Forbes, Apple, HBO and Nike, are offering employee yoga classes before work, during lunch and/or after work. TIME magazine (September `02) recently featured a lengthy article about the health benefits of yoga; Oprah Winfrey committed an entire show to yoga; many well-known business leaders, actors/actresses, sports stars, etc. have made yoga their primary exercise. Clearly yoga is the exercise of the future.  About a lunch-hour employee yoga program at ILM in San Rafael, California, one participant commented, "It's a place I can go check out and come back really renewed. It switches systems for me: I totally lose a sense of myself, and afterwards I feel so much more able to cope" (yogajournal.com/views/294.cfm).

Hatha Yoga is a physical yoga practice that has been around for over 2000 years and is touted as one of the most comprehensive exercise programs for achieving optimal mind and body health.  Although yoga has been well known for increasing body flexibility and its immense benefit to the spine, millions of Americans (15 million, according to TIME, April `02) are recognizing it for so much more. When done correctly, yoga massages and sends oxygenated blood to all of the body's internal organs. Breathing (respiratory efficiency) is improved, the parasympathetic nervous system ("relaxation response") is stimulated, the endocrine function normalizes and the excretory functions improve.  "&no exercise produced such a sense of exhilaration, such a deep sense of relaxation&I make it a point to never miss practice&" says Dr Manoj Naik, a medical doctor and regular yoga practitioner (Yoga Rahasya, Vol. 8, Nr. 3, 2001).

For additional information, please contact Beth Houser at 404-308-8732.