Should your employer provide staff with lunch-time yoga sessions?
Sonia Kruger on The Today Show debates whether employers should provide lunch time yoga sessions for their staff. From: The Today Show
Awareness in the Workplace through Yoga
What is awareness? A simple Google search yielding roughly 12.9 Million results in regards to the question “What is awareness?” Oxford University Press (an affiliate of Google) defines awareness as “Knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.” The Wikipedia…
Walking meetings: A step in the right direction for office worker health
People with desk jobs may feel there is little opportunity to increase physical activity levels during the working day. However, changing just one meeting per week from a seated to a walking meeting can increase physical activity level of office…
Return of Investment on Corporate Wellness Programs
What are the benefits of corporate mindfulness? By this time you can’t be a part of the corporate world without hearing the latest buzzword: Mindfulness. It’s creeping into the workplace everywhere, from the more obvious places (Google, and Virgin) to…
Five Creative Ways To Power Through The Afternoon Slump
If your mind starts to wander and you could really use a nap or a candy bar around 2 p.m., you’re not alone. The afternoon slump is real, and it’s your body’s response to a drop in your blood-sugar levels…
Off the Desk, on to the Yoga Mat
This week, a damning report was released that details the detrimental health effects of sitting at a desk all day. But before we all took the plunge and went fully deskless, another piece of news came out to accompany it: Doing…
9 Yoga Poses You Can Do At Your Desk Without Looking Really Weird
If you’re a yogi or yogini, you know the benefits of yoga on the body — it can help make you happier and improve flexibility and focus — but sometimes co-workers don’t exactly appreciate your mid-day yoga routine (this is…
Making Time for Office Yoga
In May 2013, 3PLQS joined the ranks of Forbes, Nike, Apple, Google and other Fortune 500 companies by offering employees a chance to practice yoga at the office. For almost seven months, employees have signed up for lunchtime classes offered…
How Mindfulness Meditation Can Improve Your Life in Just 3 Minutes a Day
You’d have to be living under a rock not to have been recommended mindfulness meditation by someone in the past few years. Big name entrepreneurs swear by it, whole conferences are dedicated to it, and prominent dissenters have even pushed…
Disrupting Meditation: Can An App Really Teach Mindfulness?
For more than 20 years, I’ve considered learning meditation. Quiet spaces! Clean robes! Shaved heads that require no fancy organic hair products! The life of Buddhist monks seems so calm, and we all want a piece of that tranquility. But…