Everyone is under more stress now – to perform and work more hours each day. Yoga gives workers a chance to take it all in their stride.
What is Corporate Yoga?
Corporate yoga is designed for busy professionals who have limited time in their daily routine to engage in the physical activity needed to combat the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. Offering yoga sessions at the office provides employees with a dedicated space to focus their minds, relieve body tension, and reduce stress and anxiety. As a result, employees experience:
- Enhanced concentration and mental clarity
- Greater resilience under pressure
- Improved productivity and goal achievement
- Higher energy levels and overall well-being
Why incorporate Yoga at the Workplace?
Integrating yoga in the office does more than boost work performance—it enhances employees’ overall quality of life. Regular corporate yoga practice positively impacts employees at work, at home, and in social interactions, creating a more balanced, productive, and fulfilled workforce.
Today’s workplaces present challenges that negatively impact employee health and performance. Factors such as chronic stress, poor posture at desks, and lack of movement can lead to fatigue, discomfort, and reduced efficiency.
Companies that prioritize wellness programs like yoga often experience:
- Increased employee morale and job satisfaction
- Improved workplace performance and efficiency
- Stronger team cohesion and reduced burnout
Types of Corporate Yoga Programs
- Group Sessions – Structured on-site or virtual classes, creating a shared wellness experience.
- Workshops & Retreats – In-depth sessions for relaxation, stress relief, and team building.
- Customized Programs – Tailored yoga routines focusing on stress management, posture correction, or fitness.
Emerging Corporate Yoga Trends
The landscape of corporate wellness is continuously evolving. Trends in corporate yoga include:
- Virtual yoga sessions for remote employees
- Integration of mindfulness and meditation alongside yoga for holistic well-being
- Wearable technology to track employee participation and progress
Invest in Employee Well-Being Today
Corporate yoga is more than just a fitness trend—it is a strategic investment in your workforce’s health, happiness, and productivity. By implementing workplace wellness programs, businesses foster an environment where employees feel valued, engaged, and empowered.
Start today and discover how corporate yoga can transform your organization.
Explore different corporate yoga retreat packages here: Corporate Yoga Retreats
Corporate Yoga Program Includes
Our corporate yoga packages can be conveniently and discretely done within the office space and in a short period of time. We provide companies’ manpower with valuable techniques needed to manage everyday challenges and to optimize health and well-being. We offer corporate yoga classes in many industries. Corporate yoga has been a successful tool to reduce stress and tension at the workplace and boost productivity, save on health care costs and improve focus and concentration. As it works through the level of body, mind and soul, it seeks balance in life in absence of which is the main reason for dissatisfaction (personal and professional life).
Corporate Yoga Program, designed to meet the unique needs of highly productive individuals facing the demands of today’s fast-paced work environment.
- Customized packages to fit with the company’s needs and availability.
- Safe and detailed approach to all postures with attention given to body ailments commonly experienced at work.
- Theory and practical courses as well as theme based workshops.
- Highly qualified and certified teachers
- Yoga mats, but we would expect each person or the company to purchase their own.
- All students are welcome, regardless of fitness or flexibility level. Please notify us however of any chronic conditions that may affect your practice.
Example of Corporate Yoga Session (1 hour)
- 1-3 minute silent sitting
- 5-7 minute warm up
- 30-40 minute yoga practice
- 5-15 minute breathing exercises & meditation
Essential Presentation Topics
- What is Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation
- Yoga general and specific benefits
- Corporate Yoga expectations
- Pranayama and breathing workshop
- Mindfulness Meditation workshop
- Essential Yoga poses for sedentary workers workshop
- Desk/Chair Yoga
Advanced Presentation Opportunities (1 hour each)
- Surya Namaskara workshop
- Yoga asana workshops
- Pranayama advanced techniques
- Jala Neti (nasal cleansing technique) workshop
- Stress and how to self manage
- Establishing an at-home Yoga routine
- Personalized poses and yoga flows
What Will You Need?
- Motivated mind
- Comfortable clothes
- A bottle of water
- 60 minutes of time (note: length of the session can be customized as per the need).
Achieve Peak Performance with Corporate Yoga
Corporate yoga is more than just a fitness activity; it is a transformative workplace wellness solution that enhances physical health, mental clarity, and emotional resilience. In today’s fast-paced work environments, prolonged sitting, high stress levels, and lack of movement can take a toll on employees’ well-being and productivity. Implementing yoga at the workplace helps counteract these effects, fostering a healthier, happier, and more engaged workforce.
Preventing Workplace Issues with Yoga
A proactive corporate yoga strategy addresses wellness issues before they impact productivity. Regular yoga practice helps:
- Maintain employee well-being – Preventing chronic pain, stress-related illnesses, and burnout.
- Reduce absenteeism – Supporting physical and mental health before issues escalate.
- Boost cognitive function – Encouraging clear thinking, focus, and better decision-making.
Common Workplace Health Issues: The Impact of Stress and Sedentary Lifestyles
Consider a day in the life of a corporate employee. Deadlines, workplace politics, peer pressure, performance expectations, pay cuts, and long working hours—these are common stressors in a professional’s daily routine. On top of all this, a sedentary lifestyle exacerbates the problem. Prolonged sitting and lack of movement can lead to stress, fatigue, and various lifestyle-related health issues.
The consequences? An increase in sick leaves, reduced focus, and lower productivity. Some of the most prevalent workplace health concerns include:
- Chronic stress and anxiety
- Postural problems and back pain
- Poor circulation and fatigue
- Reduced mental clarity and focus
How Yoga Enhances the Workplace Environment
Yoga involves more than just physical postures—it includes breathwork, mindfulness, and movement, all of which help:
- Improve circulation and oxygenation – Supporting overall body function and immunity.
- Manage stress and anxiety – Lowering cortisol levels and preventing burnout.
- Encourage mindfulness and emotional balance – Leading to a more harmonious work atmosphere.
Corporate Yoga: A Smart Business Investment
With changing work environments and an increasing need for employee wellness solutions, corporate yoga has become a key strategy for companies aiming to create a positive, resilient, and high-performing workforce.
Companies that integrate yoga breaks at work report:
- Better decision-making among employees
- Increased positivity and team collaboration
- Higher levels of creativity and innovation
Taking a break with yoga at work is one of the most effective ways to relieve stress, refresh the mind, and boost focus. Ready to experience the benefits?
Discover our tailored corporate yoga programs!
How Global Celebrities Embrace Yoga for Physical and Mental Health?
Let us look at what some of the famous celebrities around the world have to say about yoga in their fitness regime. Entertainment Industries are very demanding, celebs around the world who influence the Have to maintain their physical and mental health at first, and yoga has been the first choice for them in decades of time.
- “We all will have to die someday but before that yoga guides us to the right way of living,” said veteran comedian Madan Krishna Shrestha in his message for the day.
- Eminent actor and veteran dancer Mithila Sharma says: “Even the western dance forms such as B-boying and contemporary incorporate many yoga postures. Yoga offers goodness endlessly for all age groups.”
- Bollywood actress shilpa shetty kundra is brand face of yoga realized many yoga DVD’s and programme
- Bollywood queen karina kapoor khan include 50 surya namaskar regularly and 40 mins of yoga practice in her fitness menu
- Not only actress but the Akshay kumar who love martial arts also do yoga and meditate regularly for his fitness
- Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta , actress and a mother also trusts yoga for her fitness and during pregnancy also he practiced parental yoga for healthy babies.
Scientific View on Corporate Yoga
According to researchers from the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, yoga in conjunction with meditation can indeed relieve stress and improve work performance.” Yoga Journal Article
“Companies with Corporate Health Promotion Programs have realized a 28% reduction in sick leave, a 26% reduction in adjunctive healthcare costs and a 30% reduction in disability and workers compensation costs.” Health Affairs, Volume 21, No.2, March, 2002.
One study indicated that the return on investment for corporate wellness programs is over 5:1, or $5.81 saved for every dollar invested. (Stephenie Overman, author of Next-Generation Wellness at Work)
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) recommends yoga as “practical strategies for a healthy workplace” (in SHRM’s effective Guide Series)
“High-performance companies clearly understand the health-and-work behavior equation. This is why more than 75 percent of high-performing companies surveyed recently said they regularly measure health status as a component of their overall risk management strategy.” (The Society for Human Resource Management)
“According to research—conducted in October 2011 among 1,121 employees and 533 retirees—52 percent of workers (up from 37 percent a year earlier) said they had more energy to be more productive at work by participating in a wellness program. Another 35 percent (up from 28 percent a year earlier) said that they had missed fewer days of work by participating in a wellness program.” (The Society for Human Resource Management)
“Americans work harder, are more productive and miss fewer days of work as a result of wellness benefit programs, according to the quarterly survey of American workers at growing businesses with 10 to 1,000 employees. Forty-one percent of workers agreed that having a wellness program encourages them to work harder and perform better at work.” (The Society for Human Resource Management)
There is a definite decrease in health care costs when wellness initiatives are offered, and surveys indicate that for every dollar spent on wellness initiatives, most organizations see $1 to $3 decreases in costs. (The Society for Human Resource Management)
The American workforce is becoming more mindful. In a new study of more than 85,000 adults, yoga practice among U.S. workers nearly doubled from 2002 to 2012, from 6 percent to 11 percent. Meditation rates also increased, from 8 percent to 9.9 percent. (TIME MAGAZINE)
Recent study of American physiological association released in 1 November 2017 states that main stressor of American citizen is work (61% of population thinks work place is the main reason for stress)
Corporate yoga sequence at workplace. Employees return from workouts refreshed and better focused on their jobs. Time lost on exercise is made back and more in terms of improved productivity (Business Insider)
“Yoga is literally a moving meditation. It gave me time to clear my head, unpack the volumes of new information I was absorbing each day and then come back with a new, clearer perspective on the problems at hand. On top of that, it’s a great workout.” (Ryan Holmes for Medium.com)
“Job stress creates up to 60% of employee absenteeism” C. Cooper & R. Payne, eds. Causes, Coping and Consequences of Stress at Work. Job Stress and Healthcare Cost Data
“Job stress costs employers more than $200 billion each year in absenteeism, tardiness, burnout, lower productivity, high turnover, worker’s compensation and medical insurance costs.” National Safety Council
“Depression, a common problem among workers, costs the US $44 billion per year in lost productivity. ” National Foundation of Brain Research
“The California Workers Compensation Institute determined that job stress claims increased 700% from 1977-1988.” M. Lehmer et al. J. Occupational Environment
”In a recent 3-year analysis of over 46,000 workers from six major US companies, depression and unmanaged stress emerged as the top two most costly risk factors in terms of medical expenditures – increasing health care costs by 2-7 times as much as physical risk factors such as smoking, obesity and poor exercise habits.” R. Goetzel et al. J Occupational Environmental Medicine
Frequently asked questions
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Do you need to have done yoga at all before doing corporate yoga?
This is not the case for corporate yoga, and it caters to everyone regardless of their fitness level or experience. Sessions are designed for all levels of practitioner.
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Benefits of Corporate Yoga For Employees
Corporate yoga conducts on-site office yoga classes to help staff lowering stress, increase focus and improve health both physically & mentally. It improves productivity, decision-making as well as team spirit.
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Is it office-friendly, and what gear do you need for personal sessions?
Yoga can be practiced in the office with a limited amount of space and equipment required. Wear comfortable clothing, bring a yoga mat (if you have one), and water.
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What do employees gain from Corporate Yoga?
Corporate yoga is nothing but offering in-office yoga sessions for employees to reduce stress, increase focus and improve physical & mental health. It will improve productivity, decision-making and team spirit.
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Are yoga sessions possible in the office and do we need any equipment?
Actually, you can have an office yoga layout with minimal space and equipment. We suggest you wear comfortable clothes, have a yoga mat (if possible) and a bottle of water.