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Yoga in the Workplace Produces Stronger Bonds

When challenge surrounds you, and time pressures feel overwhelming, that is the time to keep your cool. Have you ever noticed the complainers at your workplace, are the ones who usually have the least amount of responsibility?

Before I began my yoga practice 15 years ago, I too, was very judgmental and hard on myself. I suffered from the disorder called perfectionism and many people today, not just woman, or those who are experiencing a setback, also feel this imminent pressure around them especially at work.

I would now clearly argue that the pressure is a great step toward a new future opening or opportunity.

In our yoga postures, we are all taught to play the edge. When we push against our resistance and breathe, we learn to remain calm. Our body’s own nervous system becomes rewired to withstand even greater pressure. Staying calm, we provide the body with the opportunity to strengthen our central nervous system. Have you ever noticed when you feel depressed or down, you are more susceptible to getting sick?

Many research findings are proving now that the mind and body are not disconnected but are indeed the same. A healthy mind cannot be separated from a healthy body!

Here is a short corporate yoga video to enjoy sampling a yoga class with Clayton Yoga.

Regular yoga practice at work can be a great way to relieve stress, build up one’s immunity system but even more importantly find new creative ways to collaborate and work better with people. When people take yoga classes together, they build better avenues of communication and trust between one another and even have fun.

Would you like to get more details on getting yoga classes started at your company or practicing at Clayton Yoga, please feel free to contact us through our Contact page!

Find Your Om in the Office

St. Louis Corporate Yoga offers local business professionals a way to get into shape, and relax right in their own workplace. Our 10 year experienced yoga staff deliver great corporate yoga classes for both beginners as well as more advanced students.

These corporate yoga wellness programs help to decrease stress, increase positive attitudes, better problem solving skills, and overall greater company morale.

There are many various way to compensate financially such a program. Management can help to lower the cost. Insurance companies may offer direct reimbursement to St. Louis Corporate Yoga, and larger size yoga classes keep average price points low.

Our current client, St. Louis County, is happily being covered by their insurance company Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Another corporate client with St. Louis Corporate Yoga, the Thomas Eagleton courthouse group, are saving a bundle paying out of pocket with larger group classes of over 20 students. Their corporate yoga on-site program has been expanding now for over 8 years.

In 2008, St. Louis Corporate Yoga which ran its name under Bella Yoga, was featured in the St. Louis Business Journal for its work with Gallop, Johnson and Neuman, a local law firm in Clayton. Please click here to read this wonderful article: http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2010/02/08/story13.html

Robert Droney, an attorney with Gallop Johnson & Neuman, helped spearhead the effort to bring yoga classes to the law firm. Droney said that taking a yoga class over lunch once a week gives him an energy boost and helps him clear his mind. “It is encouraging to have a wellness-minded employer. In addition to flexibility, it has helped with my balance and posture, and it has helped develop more core strength in my abdominal and back muscles than what I have experienced with running, biking and swimming,” he said. Students though need not be athletes to reap the benefits of on-site corporate yoga.

If you are interested in helping to increase employee wellness and vitality in the workplace, please contact us today at314-630-1677 or info at claytonyoga dot com.

Namaste!

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Give Your Company the Gift of Yoga this Christmas!

In survey after survey, Americans identify stress as their number one health concern today. Untreated, stress can seriously affect performance, health, and well-being. With more than 50% of Americans identifying high stress on a daily basis, it’s time to implement a strategy for corporate on-site wellness classes today.

Our YouTube video demonstrates a typical all levels yoga class. Students from all different walks of life enjoy the teamwork, peace of mind, and fitness that a great yoga class brings both to the body and mind. The idea in yoga is not to compete with oneself, but to move the body compassionately through a series of challenging postures developing a strong, more flexible state of mind.

Yoga benefits a healthier and stronger back, less anxiety and tension, as well as introducing higher levels of serotonin or feel good chemicals in the body. The true benefit of yoga is learning to be more accepting and compassionate with one’s weaker areas. Yoga helps every muscle in the body to relax.

Yoga also helps te mind become stable and focused which helps give people a break from the stress and strain going on in their daily lives. Twists and stretched postures improve the functioning of endocrine glands, digestive organs and heart. Yoga when practiced on a daily basis reduces high levels of blood pressure as well.

Please watch our YouTube Video of a corporate yoga class!

Don’t just take our word for it, hear what another student has to say about St. Louis Corporate Yoga:

“Yoga helped me to detach from the problems, lower my stress and anxiety, push distractions away and increase my flexibility. I also love the music and quiet soothing instruction. I find that many of the movements alleviate my back pain and I can even do it in my office. I highly recommend Clayton Yoga at Work to anyone,” Tom Hinton, Chief Investigator for the U.S. Federal Government.

Can we help you share the gift of yoga at your company? Please contact us today at 314-630-1677 or info at claytonyoga dot com!

Practice Yoga and Find your Peak Performance

When you feel centered, calm and empowered, chances are that you feel energized and inspired to perform at a higher level. It is natural to want to excel and become a better version of yourself. In yoga, we help train you in the art of single-pointedness. Even in disappointment and setbacks, we learn to grow. Yoga immediately improves our mental concentration and focus. Breathing is a fabulous coping tool to help us achieve a state of self-mastery.

When we practice staying calm and move our body through challenging postures, we find naturally that we want to take more and more responsibility for our life. If we project or blame, we will never be empowered or happy. But by creating more space, we increase our awareness and find a greater ability to be more loving with our imperfections.

When we experience greater self-acceptance, old habit patterns of self-doubt break free and we find a whole new clearing. Stress teaches us in a good way how to adapt using creative new goals and newfound inner strength. None of us are here to have a mediocre existence. We are here to thrive and expand and be great.

For me, yoga continues to remind me to find more fun in the everyday, more appreciative for all the blessings that come my way, and find more laughter, and more love.

There is never a better time to invest in a new yoga corporate program and motivate yourself, to greater health, peace, and happiness.

Would you like to start a corporate yoga program at your workplace? Please contact, Michelle Maue, at 314-630-1677 or through the Contact page!

10 Super Reasons for Getting A Corporate On-site Yoga Class Started Today!

The Mind and Body Medical Institute found that in survey after survey, Americans identify stress as their number one health concern today. More than 50% of adults in the US report high stress on a daily basis and more importantly, untreated, stress can seriously affect performance, health, and well-being. Also the Journal of Retired Persons found that according to Dr. Thomas Perls, MD with Boston University, Centurion Project, “it isn’t the amount of stress that matters but how you manage it”.

St. Louis Corporate Yoga keeps its clients healthy with up to date research findings, yoga sequences to practice at home, healthy nutritional ideas, and other preventative lifestyle tips too! Studies and research prove now that a regular yoga practice, or at least practicing 30 minutes 2-3 times per week, has shown itself to be an effective antidote to the stress of modern-day challenges in business and in life.

Here are 10 Super great reasons to get a corporate yoga on-site program started today!

1) Improved sleep

2) Energy level increase throughout the whole day

3) Blood pressure decrease

4) Endocrine function normalizes

5) Fewer sick days

6) Less back pain

7) Better problem solving skills

8) Quicker response time

9) Happiness

10) Stronger Team Bonds

There is never a better time to invest in a new yoga corporate program and motivate yourself, to greater health, peace, and happiness. Let’s begin to move some sacred energy, and bring ourself to our full potential and creative possibility now. With corporate jobs’ increased resilience upon technology, employees suffer a huge amount of physiological stress from sitting all day at the computer. Yoga is an excellent form of cross-training for all students, improving energy and group morale.

Would you like to start a corporate yoga program at your workplace? Please contact, Michelle Maue, at 314-630-1677 or through the Contact page!

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St. Louis Corporate Yoga Designs a Program that Fits Your Company’s Unique Needs

St. Louis Corporate Yoga began in 2001. Michelle Maue, owner of Clayton Yoga, creator of St. Louis Corporate Yoga has taught over 5,000 corporate yoga classes throughout the metro St. Louis area. Many of the St. Louis Corporate Yoga Instructors offer the best yoga classes available in the industry today. These instructors are trained to work with and support every company uniquely, which in turn creates greater support, fun and ‘enlightening’ wellness and yoga classes.

Each week, our teachers bring fresh yoga handouts, student work sheets, and new lifestyle tips to engage and inspire students to open minds, and awakened hearts. Rather than just simply teaching students a sequence, instructors with St. Louis Corporate Yoga get proactively involved in each student’s life and co-facilitate with them to seek out better and healthier lifestyle choices. What people need today, Michelle Maue says is more “energy, confidence and joy”. With this boost, employees make a shift toward the positive and for the long haul.

Corporate yoga revitalizes the immune system and the major organs of the body; removing waste products up to three times more quickly. Improved immunity means less workdays lost through colds, fatigue and other non-specific illnesses. Certainly, when students are encouraged to go at their own pace, they also quickly learn that when we give permission to make mistakes, we simply grow. Then rather a chore, it becomes dynamic to look after and care of our mind, body and spirit.

The American Journal of Hypertension found that after a 5 minute period of stress induction, Yoga breathing exercises were shown to lower systolic blood pressure more quickly when compared to classical music and natural sounds. http://yogamoment.com/yoga_benefits.html.

Regular on-site corporate yoga classes also develop greater self-esteem. You come to feel good about yourself. By carrying out demanding physical yoga postures, your confidence will grow-even after your first class.

Yoga also creates stronger bonds between the employees and staff. When people take yoga classes together, they build better avenues of communication and trust between one another and have fun.

With more than 10 years of experience, we are aware that every company is different and requires a unique approach. Implementing a corporate on-site wellness class requires just 1-2 hours per week investment and our classes are geared toward all level backgrounds and ability. In addition, St. Louis Corporate Yoga saves you time by offering professional, courteous service. To sign your company up for corporate on-site yoga classes, contact Michelle Maue at 314-630-1677 or through our Contact page.