'Office yoga' is new way to well-being for employee

Yoga is the new way to well-being for the employees of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.

With long working hours and desk jobs leading to lifestyle-related health issues, the municpality organised a yoga session for its employees at its headquarter, Civic Centre, on Wednesday.

‘Office Yoga: Love Your Life’, was organised by yoga expert Surakshit Goswami. A large number of employees and officials of North and South Corporation enthusiastically gathered at the Aruna Asaf Ali Meeting Hall of the Civic Centre to learn some basic ‘armchair yoga exercises’.

The session lasted for about an hour in which Goswami guided the employees on how to practice a few basic ‘armchair exercises’ which can be performed when one is in the office.

The exercise targetted back, neck and joint aches, acidity and strain in eyes, which are generally associated with long working hours, poor lifestyle and wrong postures.

“Many health issues in onWednesday’s age are related to poor way of living and lack of exercise. However, it is understandable that people don’t have the luxury of time always but the exercises which I am teaching here can be done in office, sitting on a chair. They only demand a few minutes of your day and offer great results in curing body pain accruing out of stress,” Goswami said.

According to the North Corporation, the civic agency is mulling to introduce more such yoga sessions which help in destressing.

“We got a tremendous response from the employees and we have decided to arrange another yoga session,” said North Corporation spokesperson Yogendra Singh Mann.
“The next session will be different from this one,” he added.

A North Corporation employee who attended the session said, “The yoga session was really helpful. I think it should be made a regular feature so that these exercises become a part of our daily lives. In the long-run, such yoga sessions will help increase efficiency of the staff.”