bay area Office Yoga®
5 Minute Compassion Meditation
5 min Compassion Meditation One of the easiest ways to reduce stress at work is to lead with compassion. Investing in your people helps set them on a path to success. By supporting their growth, you help clear their path…
How Corporate Yoga Sessions Benefit More than Productivity
Corporate yoga sessions benefit more than productivity. It can also boost creativity… Let’s circle back to 2016 when I was personal-training several clients in Golden Gate Park. This one day, I was working with Lorrie, who’d had a stroke on…
Yoga for Heart Health
Yoga for Heart Health It’s Heart Season! There are two things I want to share with you when it comes to heart-opening, or heart health, in Office Yoga. First is the physical benefits of heart-opening sequences, and second is the…
Calling all teachers! What is Office Yoga without an office?
Calling all teachers! What is Office Yoga without an office? This week I was on the podcast with Amanda Kingsmith, who is the Founder of Mastering the Business of Yoga! Amanda hosted me on the podcast back in the summer…
Out of Office Yoga® Retreat: Xinalani 2020
I heard a great quote over the holidays, “If you’re not embarrassed by the person you were a year ago, you’re not learning enough.” I find this to be hilarious, and so true. As we step into a new…
Holiday Yoga Sequence
It’s time to embrace the F word- family, friends and food! The holidays can feel exciting and overwhelming at the same time. We can be excited to see friends and family, and also reminded of the one’s we’ve lost. We…
Want to improve your job performance? Try meditating.
A study published in 2015 examined the influence of meditation on job performance in adults in living in Japan. “Many previous studies have shown that meditation practice has a positive impact on cognitive and non-cognitive functioning, which are related to job…
Before Teaching in the Office
Teaching yoga in the workplace deserves a lot of thought and attention. In 2011, when I first started teaching yoga in an office setting, the practice was referred to as “corporate yoga”. There were no standards in place for teacher…
Heart Opening Sequence
Behold, the Office Yoga® Heart Opening Sequence! Sometimes we need a few minutes to tune in and realign to what we know is true, especially when we feel compelled to close ourselves off in this season of love. Use this sequence…
OYO Sequence Series: Holiday Flow
Behold, the Office Yoga® Holiday Flow Keep this in your back pocket for emergencies, food breaks, party tricks, and more. Sometimes we need a few minutes to decompress and recollect ourselves, especially when we’re with our entire family, or our significant…
Ardha Chandrasana: OYO Style
For the last four months we’ve been exploring different Office Yoga® Sequences, during the OYO Sequence Series. For more detailed OYO Sequences, click here. We took some time to chat with Bodhi, our favorite Office Yogi. She shared with us…
OYO Sequence Series: Signature Vinyasa
OYO Signature Vinyasa As we are focusing on Pranayama this month, we figure it’s time to take it back to our roots. In this sequence, Bodhi the Office Yogi is demonstrating our signature OYO Sun Salutation A. This provides the perfect opportunity to construct a…
Khala Brannigan
Please welcome Khala Brannigan to the Office Yoga®™ family! Khala Brannigan, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a certified Vinyasa Yoga and Office Yoga® Instructor living in the Bay Area. Khala completed her first 200-hour RYT in Rishekesh, India in…
OYO Sequence Series: Power Pose
We’ve all been there. You have minutes before that dreaded meeting, awkward conversation, or big presentation. You feel the anxiety building, and you might even start to sweat. Do not fear! The Office Yoga® Team is here! This OYO Flow…
OYO Sequence Series: Better Than Coffee!
What could be better than coffee, you ask? We know, we know. Coffee = lifeline. However! We guarantee after you try this sequence out, you’ll be team #betterthancoffee for all of 2018. Join us in our Office Yoga® Sequence Series with: Better than Coffee. Don’t worry……