We Can Change Your Work Life
15 million workdays are lost per year to stress and anxiety: that is a yearly cost of £6.9 billion to employers! Research has shown that a relatively small investment into wellbeing: including yoga, mindfulness and massage, has helped reduce absenteeism at work by 30%, saving companies thousands per year.
Business Yoga is about evolving workplace practices to return to natural health. Stress doesn’t have to be a part of running a successful business and we can show you how.
In addition to causing physical changes, stress can influence our decision making process. Neuroscientists (funded by National Institute for Mental Health) found that under stress our brains are wired to be more reactionary and can lead to making more risky choices.
Humans naturally move from full focus and energy to physiological fatigue every 90 minutes, so short sharp bursts of yoga and mindfulness re-boosts employee focus, energy and creative imagination. It is suggested we change positions every eight minutes, and take a two-minute “moving break” at least once every two hours.
Humans are built to stand upright, but evolution hasn’t caught up with modern times where the typical human sits most of the time. Research shows that when we move, blood pressure and blood flow increase everywhere in the body, including the brain. More blood means more energy and more oxygen, which actually makes our brain perform better.
My name is Ella, and I created this concept to support companies to put wellbeing at the heart of their ethos. Business Yoga is about taking small increments of time to make big changes to the workplace long term. I have experienced first hand how office life can take its toll when wellbeing measures are not put in place, and as someone who suffers from back pain, I needed to put systems in place to support my wellbeing and so Business Yoga was born
