Corporate & Workplace Yoga
Corporate Wellness Through Yoga
Yoga District’s mission is that every being deserves the holistic benefits of yoga as a practical tool of empowerment, health, and physical fitness.
Yoga is a time-tested practice that cultivates boundless levels of energetic and physical fitness. Just as we bring yoga to those who may not otherwise be able to experience the benefits of yoga, through our Yoga Activist branch, we have also designed a yoga program for the corporate employee. Corporate employees deserve the opportunity to reduce stress and tension AND become more physically fit. It’s a busy world we live in today, with increasing demands on employers and employees alike. We work long hours, often hunched over a computer. We skip meals, keep a phone glued to our ear, and rarely leave our workspace for a break. Before long, these work habits begin to take their toll on our bodies and minds in the form of stress, tension and sickness. And while a mild amount of stress can help us meet deadlines, too much stress, or constant stress, can interfere with numerous physical and mental abilities. How we respond to stress can have a significant impact on our total health. Yoga can remove stress from the body and mind.
Corporate Yoga Programs Have Many Benefits
- Employees that are happy and full of energy, and as a result, more productive
- Decline in stress-related sick occurrences
- Improved concentration, decision-making skills and ability to multi-task
- Improves employee alertness and ability to react more calmly in demanding situations
- Relief of head, neck and back strain, carpal tunnel syndrome, insomnia, high blood pressure and work-related injuries from repetitive motion
- Better customer service
- Enhanced employee attitude and outlook
- General well-being in the workplace which reduces employee turnover
Health is Wealth
It’s as simple as that. When we are healthy, we are better able to face challenges and give our best to whatever endeavor we undertake.
Recent research indicates that companies who offer yoga and wellness program to their employees reduce their annual health insurance premiums, and thereby improve their bottom line.
How Do I Get Started?
Yoga District can customize a class to best fit the needs of your company and employees. We provide qualified, experienced and certified teachers. You provide a classroom space (common spaces include gyms, conference rooms, larger offices, rooftops) and we’ll take care of the rest.
If you’d like to explore the value of adding a yoga program to your workplace benefits, we’d like to help. Simply fill out the form below and we’ll take care of the rest! Alternatively, to speak directly with our Yoga in the Workplace coordinator, please call (202) 300-1269.
Workplace Yoga Partnerships
| Bates White Eyman Law Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLC FHI 360 Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. IFC World Bank Mathematica – MPR Millenium Challenge Corporation Municipal Securities (MSRB) |
Ketchum Global PR Nuclear Threat Initiative OPower Phillips Collection Smithsonian Arizona State University School of Business Seattle Children’s Hospital JOHO DC Walk for Farm Animals Unity Health Care |
Testimonials
Our teachers are thoroughly qualified, and ready to develop a workplace yoga program suited to your needs. Here is a sampling of feedback from our partners:
[the teacher, a recent graduate of the yd tt program] is very good. So many great teachers come out of your program.
[the teacher] had a great vibe, effective flow, and was really knowledgeable about how to modify asanas for various experience, strength, and flexibility levels in the class. He was also just really genuine and friendly.
…great teacher – seems very experienced.
He has a great teaching presence.
[The teacher] was prompt and really took the time to find out what we wanted from our practice.
Class flowed very well and [the teacher] was incredibly instructive and easy to understand. We are excited to keep the class going.
Thank you for your partnership and contributions to their (the students’) learning experience.
Many thanks for the wonderful experience.
What a fantastic addition… I do a lot of yoga, but never from a chair. What a great thing to remember for the plane.
Thanks for sharing yoga with us. It really helped.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact workplace@yogadistrict.com.
The Teachers
The diverse family of DC yoga teachers at Yoga District are dedicated to making yoga accessible to everyone through a huge variety of yoga class types, from vinyasa flow to restorative and beyond. Most Yoga District teachers are graduates of Yoga District’s nationally-attended 200 hour teacher training program. All Yoga District classes focus on coordinating breath with body movement to promote flexibility, strength, and peace of mind. We strongly believe in yoga as therapy, so catch one of our classes whenever you need a healthy dose of self-care.
See all yoga teachers »
The Next Step
The Yoga District 200 and 500 hour teacher training certification programs, registered by the Yoga Alliance are unique in their emphasis on diversity of teaching styles studied, personal attention, and trauma sensitive yoga. It's no coincidence that Yoga District is regularly voted the leading studio in the nation's capital, and that most of its classes are taught by graduates of its training program. As a full time yoga school, small group trainings are led up to eight times a year by a dedicated faculty including Jasmine Chehrazi, contributor to the Harvard Karma Yoga Project teacher training, teacher training faculty at George Washington University, Yoga Alliance Standards Committee Advisory Board Member, Yoga Activist Founder, and Yoga Service Council Advisory Board Member. So take your practice and community involvement to the next level by joining a training. There's a reason why our graduates call the training "transformative."
Check out the yoga teacher training »