Incorporating yoga into your business’ lifestyle is a low impact and low maintenance way to build team motivation, reduces burnout and mid-day fatigue, resiliency to stress-borne illness while sparking creativity and productivity.
Need Some Proof?
- Coors Brewing Co. spent $585,000 on a corporate wellness program – saved the company $1.95 million (Source: Business Health)
- Travelers Ins. Co. received a $3.40 return for every dollar it invested in health promotion, yielding $346 million in total corporate savings per year! (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine)
- Companies with prevention programs have seen an average of 28% less sick leave with direct health care costs dropped by 26%. Workers compensation and disability costs dropped 30%. (Source: National Institute of Health)
- “Executives who work out regularly are actually better decision makers.” – Dr. Gabriel Savendy of Purdue University who studied decision making function of 80 executives over a 9-month period. His research illustrated that fitness level and exercise raised their ability by 22% and by 70% for complex decision making skills compared to non-exercisers.
- Other companies already on the yoga-at-work-bandwagon: Google, Disney, DreamWorks Entertainment, Nike, HBO, Yahoo, Microsoft, GE, PepsiCo.
From: Light Inside Yoga