Build Beach-Body Confidence
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy. You love yoga when it feels fun and free and joyful this time of year. To help keep your practice fresh, try the sequence vinyasa yoga teacher Kathryn Budig created. Whether you luxuriate in…
Workplace Culture: How to Have Healthier Millennial Employees
In workplaces that encouraged healthy lifestyle practices, about 17% of young employees were obese, compared to about 24% percent in spaces that promoted one or no healthy practices, researchers found. How are you promoting a healthy workplace culture? Lead author…
A Mini-Guide For Anyone Who Wants To Start Meditating
The popularity of meditation is a wonderful thing. What could be better than a more peaceful and mindful planet!? But there’s also a lot of confusion going around about how to practice. In response to some of the most common…
Mindfulness takes over the corporate world
Within the busy, multicoloured halls of Google’s Sydney headquarters is a small room dedicated to silence. Cushions and the scent of essential oils fill the isolated space where technical program manager James Worsley retreats for 20 minutes every day. “You would think taking…
Lululemon shuffles corporate ranks, eliminates chief product officer role
Lululemon’s (NASDAQ:LULU) corporate structure is getting a new look. The Vancouver-based yogawear-maker announced after markets closed Wednesday (October 21) it’s eliminating the position of chief product officer (CPO) and creating the new role of creative director in its place. CPO…
Demystifying corporate mindfulness
Long championed by Silicon Valley execs, corporate mindfulness is now catching the attention of HR leaders everywhere – but what does it really mean? HRM asked one expert to explain. “Corporate mindfulness is about creating happier, more balanced people in…
How practising mindfulness can lead to better decision-making
When feedback stings or when it’s difficult to empathize with a co-worker, do you find yourself responding or reacting? There’s a big difference between the two: a thoughtful response can quell a heated debate, while a knee-jerk reaction ups the…
Striving for workplace Zen
As employee stress levels rise across the nation, employers are being forced to go beyond their traditional human resource programs offering yoga classes and meditation rooms. Law firm Seyfarth Shaw has created a meditation room for staff, with partner Henry…
Why this startup gave up ‘Whiskey Fridays,’ and now hosts weekly employee workouts and yoga sessions
When we heard about game company FlowPlay‘s workouts, we knew we had to give it a try. Last year, GeekWire toured FlowPlay’s new offices with CEO Derrick Morton walking us through the new space in Pioneer Square. The open-floor plan holds…
Stressed Out at Work? There Is a Bright Side
Is stress bad for your health? Based on the roughly sixty million articles published in the last year linking stress and poor health, you’re not alone in making that assumption. Recent research in how people react to and manage stress…