5 Health Benefits of Waking up to Yoga
We all love our routines. For some of us they may involve a heavy-handed pour of coffee followed by a daily dose of reading, perhaps of YOGANONYMOUS or Facebook – let’s be real, but one piece of our routine we…
6 Yoga Lessons that Run Our Startup Company
As a newly formed enterprise, we face tremendous challenges, limited monetary and human resources, and a need to manage our internal conversation to ensure we keep motivated and blossom into what we seek to become. Here are the ways we…
Future Of Work: Mindfulness As A Leadership Practice
Mindfulness, once considered a fringe movement in the Western world, is now being incorporated into medicine, science and the workplace. As I began to practice meditation through the tapes and books of Dr. Kabat-Zinn, I started exploring how mindfulness was…
Here’s How You Can Quiet Your Busy Mind
The morning I was to go on a short business trip, my client and friend Barb Schmidt, the author of The Practice: Simple Tools for Managing Stress, Finding Inner Peace, and Uncovering Happiness, shared her TEDx talk with me called,…
Employers pledge support to improve workers’ health
Working-age ill-health costs the UK economy an annual £100bn, so there are clear business benefits for employers to improve the health of their workers. Wellbeing initiatives can prevent absenteeism and improve productivity. The government-sponsored Frost/Black report in 2011, for example,…
Yoga and Strength Training Bring Creativity to the Table
Elad Yifrach believes a clear mind cultivates creative ideas. He says the chanting and meditation that are part of Kundalini yoga help him develop the intuition and focus needed to run his brand of a high-end tabletop accessories. After practicing…
Corporate Wellness: How Health Improves The Bottom Line
It seems every time we turn around there is a buzz about “corporate wellness.” I have heard it so many times that I wonder if people are becoming skeptical and leery of it being a marketing ploy. However, I know…
Stress Management Techniques & Meditation with NYC’s “Urban Monk”
Picture this: it’s Monday evening and you’re in a packed room filled with NYC’s busiest professionals – in quiet meditation. Sounds impossible, right? Wrong! Nothing is impossible. Indeed, this was exactly the scene we set at last week’s Stress Management,…
How to sit Smarter
This last week has been a blur of airports and cities, cars, buses, metros, etc. Not to be misunderstood, I do sincerely love to travel, but there is no denying that it can be an incredibly grueling, exhausting process on both…
Nurses Know How To Relieve Stress: Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga Lower Levels By 40%
The things we stress about are always going to be there, especially at work. But the way we react to these daily stresses can make an enormous difference in our overall health and happiness. A new study testifies to this…