Chair Yoga: 5 min Yoga exercises at your desk

Yoga is an excellent method of reducing stress and tension through out your day. This video shows that you don’t even have to get out of your chair. Chair yoga is particularly helpful at work as we all know stress can be high in the workplace. Sitting at a desk all day can also create many issues for the body such as tension and constriction in the body as well as short shallow breathing. Yoga can help to balance these negative effects of sitting in a chair all day. Taking deep breaths, practicing twists and other concentrated body movements helps to improve blood flow as well as oxygenation. This video encourages you to pay attention to how you sit in your office as well as how long you are sitting without moving. There are many ways of shifting the way you are sitting to make it easier on your body and chair yoga can help you to be more in tune with your body. The video shares many options for taking time to incorporate yoga into your daily routine at work to make your time more comfortable and more peaceful.

Key Points of Video:

  • 1We sit for up to 8 hours a day at work and this can cause stress on the body.
  • 2Completing just five minutes of yoga exercises in a chair can help alleviate this.
  • 3These yoga exercises can also help calm the mind and re-energize you for the rest of your workday,
Share

HealthStatus has been operating since 1998 providing the best interactive health tools on the Internet, millions of visitors have used our health risk assessment, body fat and calories burned calculators. The HealthStatus editorial team has continued that commitment to excellence by providing our visitors with easy to understand high quality health content for many years.

User Reviews

Reply

Your email address will not be published

7 + eleven =

Written by HealthStatus
Medical Writer & Editor

HealthStatus has been operating since 1998 providing the best interactive health tools on the Internet, millions of visitors have used our health risk assessment, body fat and calories burned calculators. The HealthStatus editorial team has continued that commitment to excellence by providing our visitors with easy to understand high quality health content for many years.

View all post by HealthStatus