20 November 2009 | Posted inBlog News & Updates
Posted by Emma
Launch of Office Yoga in HOK London office
Yesterday morning I organised our first office yoga session with the wonderful instructors from beyoco.
We had a nice little turn out; filling the boardroom with positive energies and flexible limbs to gear us up for the day. I’m hoping to start this small and eventually encourage a wider group of people (namely some men as it was all women yesterday!) as they see how we emerge zen-like from the class.
Our objective through practising yoga at work is to train our minds to de-stress, take a step back from our work, think more creatively and, of course, helps release tension in our bodies. There is hearsay (I can’t find any actual studies into this) that yoga at work helps employees be more productive, efficient and resilient to stress. I’ll keep you posted what we find. In fact, that gives me an idea, perhaps in should do a pre-yoga-practising and post-yoga survey and find out!
Let’s hope we keep it up don’t resort to practising yoga in the manner of this respectable gent below…
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OH! Jealous, I want to do some yoga at work??
I meant !!!!! (morning! ugh)
Very cool! You should do a study to see how the people and maybe even the boardroom itself changes with all the zen-like calm you all are exuding. I bet meetings there will be more productive.
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Fabulous idea!
And here’s a little encouragement from the researchers at Princeton University:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/phys-ed-why-exercise-makes-you-less-anxious/