YOGA AT WORK? I am seeing a real increase with interest for yoga, as the country returns to a sense of normality and we slowly return to offices, albeit on an infrequent basis, more people are engaging, either online or attending local yoga classes, or even Park Yoga Wokingham.
Working from home, ‘hybrid working’, is the new norm. It benefits employees, and certainly benefits employers, for many reasons. So now is the time for businesses to review their health, safety and wellbeing initiatives, possibly embrace a more holistic approach to their employee wellbeing, perhaps include yoga. Yoga is a mind and body practice, that is well known. When we work, we probably carry a degree of stress, simply to problem solve and get 48
through the day. We probably breathe at only 15% lung capacity whilst going about our stuff and we probably are sedentary for 70%+ of the working day. We are perpetually in our ‘fight and flight’ mode which is not sustainable and risking our health. Our employers, and if you are one, have a duty of care for our wellbeing, which goes beyond some of the diluted approaches I have seen throughout my work life. WOKINGHAM LOCAL • JULY / AUGUST 2022
