Stabilize Your Wrists: Child’s Pose

Anatomy 101: 8 Poses to Strengthen Your Wrists + Prevent Injury

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Originally Published on yogajournal.com by Ray Long, MD

Each time you vinyasa your wrists bear weight. Without the proper support, this can lead to injury. Use these poses to help build strength in your wrists and core.

The key to protecting your wrists is—surprise!—a strong core. Evidence-based medicine demonstrates that a strong core can increase the efficiency of your rotator cuff muscles, which stabilize your shoulders, and decrease the load that is transferred to your wrists. Picture the ubiquitous Down Dog–Chaturanga–Up Dog-Down Dog sequence. Each time you repeat it, your wrists bear weight throughout. Over time and without proper support from the core and shoulders, this can lead to injury.

Use this simple four-step program to strengthen your core, rotator cuff, and wrist muscles. Step four integrates steps one through three into Down Dog. Ease into all of these poses using smooth gradual engagement of the muscles. Prepare the body in this sequential way, maintain awareness of the core-cuff-wrist connection, and infuse these actions into every vinyasa to keep your wrists healthy and pain-free.

Note: People with wrist pain should consult a medical professional. Avoid weight-bearing in the wrists until pain subsides.

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Try These Trends To Attract Top Talent

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Originally published on Forbes.com by Cheryl Conner

This week I revisited a great friend, Amelia Wilcox. Amelia is the Utah-based founder of Incorporate Massage who collaborated with me a year ago on this article: 6 Ways to Increase Employee Morale and Performance Without Giving a Raise. 

More than 55,000 readers have enjoyed that article so far. Since our collaboration I’ve become a client of her business (much to my employees’ delight). And we finally met in person, over a girls-in-entrepreneurship lunch.

Clearly the battle for top talent is bigger than ever. When we met, I asked Wilcox for an update on the trends she’s seeing today. Here’s what she said.

Today’s employment market is even more competitive than last year. Companies across the U.S. are struggling to secure the top talent they need, resulting in a battlefield replete with a growing spectrum of perks and benefits to reel desirable applicants in.

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Taking Corporate Yoga to the ‘Suits’ in Hong Kong

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Originally Published on cnn.com by Diego Laje

Hong Kong (CNN) — Like other major financial centers such as London, Shanghai or New York, Hong Kong is home to legions of suited workers toiling long hours in vast, glass towers at breakneck speed.

But in this crowded, materialistic city, there’s a man trying to build a business from de-stressing the workplace.

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Pilates – The Other Mat

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Originally Published in Yoga Journal by Stacie Stukin

Through years of yoga classes, I’ve gamely moved into Ardha Chandrasana (Half Moon Pose) hundreds of times—balancing precariously with one hand on the floor, the other reaching skyward, and one leg shooting back from my hips. I thought I had it mastered. Then I enrolled in a Pilates class to assist my recovery from an injury, and when I came back to Half Moon, I discovered a whole new dimension to it.

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Pilates and Stress Management

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Originally published on pilatesstyle.com by Leah Stewart

How stress affects your health and helpful techniques to stay slim, fit and feeling good.

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Incorporating Corporate Yoga

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Original article in Yoga Journal

BY NANCY WOLFSON

Just after sunrise, I am lying on the floor of Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York. Next to me are 14 other students from the Market Development department at MTV Networks, here on a two-day corporate team-building retreat. The program includes sports, hikes, a croquet tournament, and this yoga class for “active relaxation.”

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Successful Work Wellness Programs & Their Amazing Benefits

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Originally Published in Courier Mail 

These four workplaces have got work/life balance down pat. Prepare yourself for some serious office envy.

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Ideas to Cure the Workplace Blues & Increase Productivity

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Originally Published in South China Morning Post by Annemarie Evans.

From potted plants to paternity leave, Chinese medicine practitioner Jimmy Lau will stop at nothing to make Richform a desirable employer and increase productivity.

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Mindfulness | How to Live in the Moment and Get Work Done

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Originally Published in Fast Company by Jenny Dearborn

Clearing your mind and living in the moment isn’t about putting productivity on hold. You can be more profitable with less brain clutter.  

If you are like me, you probably find yourself multitasking more, yet feeling like it really isn’t benefiting you. As a society, we’re stressing out about more and accomplishing less, adversely impacting both our mindsets and our productivity.

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5 Simple Yoga Poses You Can Do At Your Desk

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Originally Published in Mind Body Green by Jen Kluczkowski

Notice the position of your body right now. Are you slumped over in a chair? Are your shoulders collapsing in towards each other? Is your neck tilted down? If you’re sitting at your desk, chances are high you answered yes to all. This body posture literally closes off our centers for communication and intuition.

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