workplace programs

benefits of yoga

Company Benefits

  • Reduced indirect costs such as absenteeism, and promote presenteeisom (on the job effectiveness)
  • Healthy, happy and more productive employees
  • Less stress in the workplace which leads to reduced absenteeism
  • Promotion of mindfulness in communication
  • Proactive step towards Australian OHS requirements to "provide a healthy and safe working environment"
  • Organisational coherence, team activities aid team work, if there's an individual who's not working as part of the team, the whole organisation suffers

Staff Retention and Attraction

In the current employment climate companies are fighting hard to attract and retain talented people. By offering a yoga as part of a wellness programme companies this is one way to aid in staff retention. “A survey by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses in 2003 found that 60% of employees regarded wellness programmes as a good reason to remain with their current employer. Other studies have shown that wellness programmes raise staff morale, enhance work-life balance, and persuade people to stay with an employer.

A wellness program is one way of attracting and retaining employees as well as helping to keep the ageing talent pool more healthy.” (Working Towards Wellness - Accelerating the prevention of chronic disease)

Corporate Responsibility

Progressive companies are smart in the implementation of corporate wellness programs. “For many years European companies have regarded wellness programmes as a duty of corporate social responsibility. Many multinationals now share that attitude and include wellness in their annual reports on social responsibility. Of the 20 largest multinational companies, 75% published corporate responsibility reports online in 2006. Of those that published reports, 93% emphasized their commitment to improving the health of employees.”

It is becoming impossible to overlook the corporate responsibility of organizations to invest in the wellbeing of their most precious assets, and rightly so, the rationalization is both economic and ethical.

Benefits for Individuals

Yoga makes you feel better. Practicing the postures, breathing exercises and meditation makes you healthier in body, mind and spirit. Yoga lets you tune in, chill out, shape up - all at the same time.

  • Improved muscle tone, flexibility, strength and stamina
  • Reduced stress and tension
  • Boosts self esteem
  • Improved concentration and creativity
  • Lowering of fat in the body
  • Improves circulation
  • Stimulation of the immune system
  • Creates sense of well being and calm

Quite often people are drawn to yoga to address particular health aliments, most commonly as stress, depression, anxiety, or back neck and knee problems. Its ideal that we use yoga in the prevention of such aliments, but a recent RMIT and Yoga in Australia study found that of those surveyed “96 percent of people found their condition improved by yoga”, quite remarkable.