Haven Yoga Meditation shares how corporate yoga can improve workflow and help your business.
Yoga, having been around for an estimated 5, 000 years, is not an overly new occurrence. Corporate yoga, however, is a relatively new concept since the 2000s. Corporate yoga went from simply being in motion to a must for businesses when figurehead companies like Nike, Apple, and Google brought it into their workplaces.
Whether for a large or small company, it is of the highest importance to build a positive environment for employer and employee alike. Yoga is more than just physical fitness exercises – it’s a mechanism for working with meditation, spirituality, as well as your inner self.
Corporate yoga offers an alternative to combat health issues that arise in common working environments, such as chronic pains and heart diseases from extended periods of sitting at desks. Beyond these, there are the fitness benefits of yoga with strength and muscle building, stamina improvement, and heightening flexibility.
With the meditative aspects of yoga, studies and practices have found it impacts the mind by increasing focus, patience, and even discipline. These benefits on a single person have vast benefits for a business, but when every single employee is involved in the same practice the entire environment changes. When an entire workforce is imbued with these same ethics from doing corporate yoga, productivity for the whole company increases at high rates across the board.
Working longer hours in sedentary lifestyles has greatly grown the statistics of burnout in workforces across industries in the last few years. When doing the same monotonous day over and over again, it creates an endless cycle in people’s minds. Corporate yoga helps to create a break in this cycle with a chance to get people up and away from their desks and tasks. Yoga gives back the freedom of energy and open-minded thinking, creating a safe space in the work environment to reinvigorate employees and improve work.
