Office yogis – the new trend in workplace wellness
In just a few years, yoga has gone from being an exotic and almost bizarre exercise to an increasingly widespread practice in all areas. At work too, of course. Many companies have begun to take advantage of its advantages to provide their employees with a better balance between body and mind, hoping that this will increase productivity.
Yoga is said to provide various social benefits in companies, such as fostering the bond between colleagues and even the degree of commitment of workers to their company, by feeling more cared for by it.
Spending too many hours at a desk and in front of a screen can end up causing symptoms such as mental confusion, anxiety, poor posture, back and neck pain, among others.
The ailments that are most related to work and absenteeism are muscle pain and stress. These in turn can cause diseases such as hypertension, insomnia, depression, ulcers or gastrointestinal problems.
Yoga helps strengthen the immune system, prevent common back and cervical ailments, carpal tunnel syndrome, high stress levels and become aware of our posture so that it is easier for us to adopt the correct one. Being a low-impact exercise, yoga improves strength and flexibility, reduces stress and physical and mental tension. In addition, if combined with meditation, it allows you to increase concentration to achieve a better quality of work.
Yoga favors relaxation and helps combat anxiety, so it serves to prevent burnout syndrome, reducing the chances of sick leave.
Practicing yoga can work as a fantastic teambuilding tool that can help your employees bond and improve their relationships within the office.
The inclusion of the practice of yoga in the office has multiple advantages that have a beneficial impact on both workers and the company.
The fact that the company offers workers the possibility of practicing yoga in the office will make them feel that their needs matter, which will not only motivate them but also increase their loyalty towards the company.
Benefits of practicing yoga in the workplace:
AT THE PHYSICAL LEVEL
- Improve your physical condition and prevent illness and injury.
- It favors the correct alignment of the spine, tones the muscles and prevents joint injuries, contractures, headaches and back pain.
- It brings benefits to the cardiovascular, nervous, lymphatic, and immune systems and favors glandular balance, reducing and preventing diseases.
- Reduces health costs: by improving physical and mental health, the costs related to absenteeism from work due to health problems are reduced.
AT THE INTELLECTUAL LEVEL
- Improves concentration: you learn to empty your mind, increasing attention span and memory.
- It facilitates relaxation and provides energy: this causes time to be optimized in the processes and work can be faced with positivism.
EMOTIONAL LEVEL
• Eliminates stress: reduces nervousness and insomnia, improves capacity and quality
breathing, so that stress is prevented or helps to better manage it.
• Increases values and sense of responsibility.
• Improves self-control management: by being more relaxed, communication is more
assertive and less aggressive, and problems or challenges are faced from a
different perspective.
THE WORK ENVIRONMENT AND RELATIONSHIPS
- It generates a better work environment: more harmonious and motivating, so that employees work more relaxed.
- Improve communication between employees: help to strengthen ties and improve relationships between workers and even with bosses.
- It increases performance and efficiency, improves decision making, stimulates creativity, increases productivity and decreases absenteeism.
The inclusion of the practice of yoga in the company will give a good image of your company to potential candidates, which will improve employer branding.
