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How can businesses use yoga to improve workplace well-being?
Lara Dianna talks positively about the power of yoga to improve personal wellbeing and help individuals live happy, healthy lives. This has never been more important than in the current climate, with the country gripped in the one of the worst health pandemics in living memory.
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ara says “Mental health has increased under the spotlight in recent times. The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that lives have been turned upside down, people are uncertain about the future, and alongside the many challenges that already being faced and existing personal ones, has made people more anxious. Yoga is a good way of combatting this. It can improve mental and physical well being, awareness and renewed energy levels. “I’m living proof of this; through my time practicing yoga I feel more peaceful, in tune with myself, happy and accepting of my body, and relationships around me have improved. Through it I have tools to support me in my everyday life, a practice to to come back to and recharge”. Now Lara is keen to engage more with the business community to share her experiences and promote the role of yoga in improving workplace wellbeing. She says: “With people working from home more often now, employers are under more pressure to look after their staff and ensure they are fit and healthy enough to do their jobs. Encouraging them to do yoga, either by going to a class or doing it online, is a great way of ensuring staff remain healthy and productive. Its effects have been scientifically validated. It’s in an employer’s best interests to make sure they do this; it is well known that a happy, healthy workforce leads to high productivity levels and likely less absence, and that can only be good for business.”
Lara teaches Vinyasa Flow Yoga, a modern style of yoga characterised by placing chosen movements and options in a way that can benefit many body types; using the breath, meditation and other elements to focus and connect the mind and body and bring them to relaxation and peace at the end of class, all of which can be tailored to either a group or individuals. With a long, active love and passion for fitness, she turned to yoga for a more holistic approach that has taught her so much. Insured, trained and registered, she says “I have a fitness background and was looking for a practice that was more holistic and incorporated elements that focused on the mind and spirit. That’s why I chose yoga particularly, an endless journey of discovery, which I continue to learn about. And due to my life experience, I envisioned a company that focused on well being, recreation and lifestyle and believe that yoga is at the heart of it all due to its holistic nature and it’s also this holistic nature that is ideal for the workplace.” “Yoga having been developed from the Vedas, one of the oldest texts on spirituality in India, began with wise men in deep states of meditation and whose revelations over time began spiritual traditions and philosophies such as Buddhism and Hinduism, from which yoga grew. Through its journey, it has brought much benefit to everyone who practices it to this day, all over the world. “Yoga can bring much support to a workforce that faces stress, anxiety, depression, difficult relationships, demotivational environments,
sitting at desks for long periods of time, back pain and other ailments, all of which have triggered an increase in workplace absences. With this in mind: movement, breathing techniques, meditation and other elements my class has to offer will benefit people in many ways. These include a well rounded experience of mental and physical health that promotes longevity, improved proprioception and balance, self-management, mind and body care, stress relief, fatigue reduction, physiological resetting, improved quality of life, improved senses, and the creation of neural pathways that bring more peace and clarity to the brain in a supportive, safe, positive and warm atmosphere. All of this will help create a happier, more satisfied, fitter and more motivated workforce”.
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LARA DIANNA established UTOPIA™ for wellbeing, recreation and lifestyle services two years ago. She has a passion for creating Vinyasa Flow Yoga and meditation classes that improve wellbeing recreationally and that can become part of a sustainable lifestyle, simultaneously harmonising work and home life. She helps individuals and corporate clients to use this practice and space to recharge one’s natural energy, revitalising a clearer, wiser mind and creating a happy healthy body. For a consultation email lara@utopiavinyasaflow.com directly.
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