Yoga Exercises in the Workplace - Improving Employee Heart Health

Yoga exercises have long been considered a key part of an all-encompassing healthcare regimen in healthy adults. For unhealthy adults, especially those who are under a great deal of stress, the use of any exercise is essential and yoga exercises have shown great promise in protecting stress related heart disease. If you are struggling with heart palpitations, or other cardiac complications, in response to your work stress, you may want to consider how yoga exercises at work can improve your health.

Across the United States, employers are diligently working to help their employees live a healthier lifestyle '" with many offering discounts on local gym memberships or providing fitness programs in the workplace. If you are looking for ways to improve your health while at work, then consider adding yoga exercises. Ultimately, it can not only improve your heart health but also improve physical health, including rotator cuff strengthening.

With yoga exercises in a stressful workplace, workers are experiencing vastly improved heart health with many stress related heart conditions mitigating in direct response to the yoga workouts. While some types of yoga can impose time constraints on employees, there are some forms of yoga exercise that can be performed during 15-20 minute breaks in the morning or afternoon, without impeding on a general work day or affecting an employee's lunch schedule.

If you are concerned about your work related stress, be sure to ask about the implementation of any type of yoga instruction for employees. Typically, your employer can enlist the services of a yoga instructor, five days per week, for a one hour session in which employees can join in for 15 to 20 minutes. This session, for most employers, would cost not more than $50 a day and this is, by far, a much lower cost than paying higher insurance premiums for employees suffering from stress related illnesses.

If your employer refuses to offer any type of yoga exercises program in the workplace, and if you continue to live under great distress at work, always be sure to ask about the use of yoga before or after work. By enlisting in a yoga program, you will find that your heart rate and heart health will be greatly improved, even if you cannot obtain the yoga instruction while on the job site.

Sources: BMC Public Health 2011, vol 11. pp. 577-578