Office Yoga: Tackling Tension with Simple Stretches You Can Do at Your DeskOFFICE YOGA is a survival handbook for the deskbound; a practical manual of simple movements which you can do a few minutes at a time throughout the day, to relieve the tension and stress of sedentary working life. It gives clear instructions and illustrations for sixty stretching and breathing exercises--simple, safe, and fun to do--most of which can be done sitting in your chair at your desk. Office Yoga will make you feel better. It will relieve and help prevent headache, neck-ache, backache, and eye-ache. It will improve your posture and breathing, replenish your vitality, boost your energy levels and improve your concentration. Office Yoga also offers guidance on improving your personal working environment: chair, desk and lighting; and suggests how to make use of the time you spend travelling to and from work. If you work at a desk, computer terminal or drawing board, in an office or at home, Office Yoga will be of sound, practical help to you. |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
Sitting | 20 |
sitting | 28 |
sitting | 49 |
sitting | 62 |
Breathing | 81 |
standing | 87 |
The beginning middle and end of | 123 |
Using this book throughout your day | 133 |
Taking it further | 146 |
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allow ankles B.K.S. Iyengar balanced series basic sitting position bend Bhagavad Gita breath Chapter breathe naturally breathing freely bring chair Chapter 6 page chest chin circle your shoulders comfortable desk diaphragm Draw your shoulders ears exercises Exhale eyes face forward facing the ceiling fingertips point floor Focus your awareness gently Hatha Yoga heels illustration inbreath Inhale intercostal muscles Interlace your fingers joints Kaushitaki Upanishad kneeling chair legs lengthen your spine lower back lower your arms lungs move neck o'clock Look Office Yoga outbreath palms facing palms to face pelvis centred pubic bone pull raise your arms raise your straight relaxed release Rest your hands ribcage Sanskrit sequence shoulder blades shoulders back side stretches sitting bones space squeezing your shoulder Stand in balance standing position strain teacher tension thighs toes turn your palms upper back upper body vertebrae wrists Writing Slope yoga practice