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Our vision is to make employees healthier overall. It’s important to us that our clients are able to incorporate our weekly exercises into their daily office routine. That is why we always recommend that our corporate packages include some desk & chair yoga. This doesn’t mean that you have to have a “yoga desk” or “yoga chair”! It just means that the exercises are performed right at the workstation: some of them involve sitting on a chair and others incorporate the desk. That way, the exercises can easily become part of a short break, which does not have to involve you leaving your workstation. We also take care to teach enough “unobtrusive” exercises, which no employee should feel embarrassed about doing in an open-plan office where other people might be watching.

We suggest a cardio-intense yoga session to companies whose office facilities include showers, because you should sweat! For offices without showers, we recommend a cardio session to be at the end of the day, so people can shower at home. Cardio yoga is very popular with corporate employees who like their tough workouts, but don’t always have the time to go to the gym due to their workload and office-based commitments. The individual exercises we teach are comparable to for example burpees in that it doesn’t take more than a minute to get you out of breath and your heart rate up. They combine concentration, movement and accelerated diaphragmatic breathing in order to achieve not only a high intensity workout, but also an efficient exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide that will leave you relaxed and refreshed for your day at the office and your evening of winding down.

A lot of people don’t realise they don’t breathe properly, which can cause a lot of mental as well as physical issues. We teach the efficient use of clavicular, intercostal and diaphragmatic breathing as well as the importance of prolonged exhalation for de-stressing. Our essential breathing sessions are good for corporate clients who get nervous before meetings, presentations or any other type of situation that stresses you and worsens your breathing pattern. We practice a particular set of Pranayama breathing techniques which the employees can resort to whenever such a situation arises and whether they’re alone or in an open-plan office.

The yoga on the go sessions are perfectly suited to employees who are out of the office a lot due to their work involving a great amount of travelling and/or working remotely. Yoga on the go addresses the particular challenges that come with that, and our set of non-office-based exercises can be performed anywhere, be it at an airport, a train station or just outside your car.

The mindfulness & meditation exercises are especially good for very busy employees who feel like they never get a break. When we use these terms, we simply mean taking some time out of your busy office day in order to concentrate on yourself, your breathing and your body, and being fully present in the moment. Our approach to meditation is non-religious. We guide our corporate clients through breathing exercises, visualisations or body scans, giving them the opportunity to observe rather than judge their thoughts and feelings.

Our meeting prep yoga closely ties in with the meditation and breathing sessions to tackle nervousness and also focus on those parts of the body that might be particularly challenged in meetings due to long spells of sitting, standing, writing etc. These meeting prep yoga sessions can be extended one-on-ones with an individual corporate client, or they can be group sessions in an office meeting room in breaks as short as 15 minutes.

The invigorating stress-buster sessions tend to be shorter (15 to 30 minutes) and we often start them with some energy-releasing noisemaking, before focussing some quick high intensity movements. We typically follow this with active stretching and end with breathing exercises. If you have an open-minded team, we’ll add some laughter yoga, guaranteeing you reduce your stress levels through activating your parasympathetic nervous system – whether you laugh for real or you fake it. For our stress-buster sessions, we tend to recommend an office meeting room, so as not to disturb employees who don’t participate.

Ever wondered how to make sure your employees bond properly in those “never know how much they help” team-bonding sessions? We have some great tricks up our sleeves that will make sure they share a fun time. Through concentration exercises or laughter yoga, we make sure everyone will come out of the session feeling good about the people they work with and happy about their workplace.

Whether you’ve got a fun and loud team or your office is very heads-down and quiet, we’ll manage to get you to a state of incessant deep belly laughter which you might find absurd to begin with but which will morph into an effective release of all sorts of positive neurotransmitters and feel-good hormones – and before you know it, you’ll be out of your overthinking mind and in your relaxed body, where we should all spend a little more time, rather than taking ourselves too seriously.

In our computer ergonomics sessions, we teach you how to adjust your posture, your hardware and your workstation in order to minimise musculoskeletal disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome or other repetitive strain injuries associated with desk jobs.

Not looking forward to the next upcoming board meeting? We’ll make sure you get a well-deserved board meeting break, recover some of your energy and get some fresh ideas in your head. We can do this in just 15 minutes, and anyone can and should make the time for that. We’ll insist on being on the agenda, so no one can just sneak out 😉

Have booked a nice location for your corporate away day and are looking for something interesting to fill the time? Choose from any of our packages above, and we’ll come to wherever you are. We’ll fit our yoga sessions into your away day and we can even throw in some healthy home-cooked Indian snacks afterwards.

Want to shake up your event with something a little bit different? Offer your staff or clients some free yoga to make sure they stay happy and love your company. Whether it’s at your office or an external location, we can work anywhere and we don’t need any props.

Regular yoga sessions don’t really fit into your company concept but you do run staff health days? Or possibly in addition to your weekly yoga sessions, there is one day that is all about health and wellbeing? If you’re looking for fun and healthy activities to fill the day, please get in touch. We’ll show your employees some unusual yoga moves and breathing which they can take back to their desks and practice afterwards.

In our sleep management yoga classes, we combine yin yoga poses with a focus on mindfulness-based meditation and pranayama to get you to calm down and control your breath. We recommend taking these 30-minute sessions on a regular basis in order to achieve the most effective and lasting results.