Mindfulness of Breathing: A Primer
Thirty years ago, you had to be a serious student of Buddhism to be familiar with mindfulness meditation. Today, it’s everywhere: in medical, military, educational, and even corporate settings. Advocates of mindfulness meditation say it can improve just about every…
How You Can Use Your Company Health Benefits To Strengthen Employee Engagement
When the Affordable Care Act first was signed into law in 2010, many experts predicted it would break the decades-long and established connection between employment and health insurance. Yet, our recent study of more than 2,000 U.S. employees shows they remain strongly attached to…
Is mindfulness the panacea that the workplace needs?
Mindfulness is increasingly being adopted by the private, public and voluntary sectors, with organisations including Google, BT, GSK, Morgan Stanley, Aetna and General Mills praising the benefits of its impacts on wellbeing levels, productivity and absence. A “mindful nation” could…
Workplace Wellness
Yoga inched its way onto the corporate scene 25 years ago. Within the last decade, the practice has significantly grown in popularity. Forbes, Apple, Google, and several Fortune 500 companies offer yoga classes as part of their wellness programs. Employers…
Raising the Bar on Corporate Wellness
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), chronic diseases and related lifestyle risk factors are the leading drivers of health care costs for employers: About 86% of full-time workers are overweight or have at least one chronic illness, and…
Yoga and Meditation at Accenture London
Accenture, a large management consultancy firm, organized a Yoga and meditation session as part of their annual initiative ‘One Big Week’. The session was conducted by DJJS, UK at Palace Plantation, 30 Fenchurch St, London on Oct 9, 2015. DJJS…
5 Breathing Exercises To Relax Your Mind
It might not sound very important, but learning how to utilise our breath is essential to the health of our body and mind. Think about it: we take care of our body by providing it with nourishing foods, so why…
Yoga is the New Team Building
Something is in the water. Yoga is the new HR teambuilding activity. I say this because I’ve been to several human resources meetings, this year, and leaders are forcing their colleagues and direct reports to wake up early and do…
Healing the Whole Person
In 1998, Jeffrey Brantley, MD, was knocking on colleagues’ doors, trying to raise the visibility of a new project. He had just launched a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program at Duke University Health System, the beginnings of what would become Duke…
NHS staff to be offered yoga classes to slash alarming sickness rate
NHS staff are to be offered physio, counselling, yoga and Zumba classes in a bid to save billions of pounds in sickness costs. The health service is one of the world’s largest employers – with over 1.3million staff – but…