Yoga for Calm: Managing Anxiety at Work with Breathing, Movement, and Mindfulness

The key to managing the daily stress and anxieties of modern life is not so much learning exotic new practices as it is understanding and directing the most fundamental functions of your own body’s neurobiology.  This online web session is designed to introduce participants to simple, straight-forward techniques for calming situational anxiety that are easy to remember and can be implemented at any place, any time to help calm the body and focus the mind when stress threatens to overwhelm. The techniques taught in this class require no special skills, no equipment, and no unique settings for  successfully utilizing the body’s own physiology to manage stress. The efficacy of these somatic awareness practices is confirmed and recommended in the most current medical research on managing  anxiety and stress. 

Primary purpose of this session is to teach three fundamental exercises for self-regulation: a breathing practice, stress release through movement, and a meditative practice. After giving a brief informative summary  from current research on anxiety and stress management, the majority of our hour of instruction is live demonstration and opportunity for participants to practice with the instructors. Time is reserved at the end of the class for Q and A and an opportunity for participants to provide live feedback regarding their experience.  

While the specific techniques we offer are derived from traditional yoga, no experience with yoga practice is required. Practices taught in this webinar are safe, gentle, and complementary to any other kinds of practice and treatments for managing anxiety and stress. This training is not intended to offer medical advice, address clinical anxiety disorders, or replace any current stress management practices.

Webinar Objectives

In today’s fast paced world, many people are suffering from anxiety. People are suffering not just from short bouts of anxiety, but from long-term chronic anxiety that erodes their health and the quality of their life. Simple, scientifically proven and medically approved techniques can help to lower the level of anxiety and keep it low with regular practice. This seminar will teach easy, gentle, and effective breathing, movement and mindfulness techniques to quickly calm body and mind in short-term situations where anxiety interferes with clarity and productive collaboration. Suggestions are also offered for assessing and improving lifestyle habits to develop sustained resilience and well-being.

Webinar Agenda

This session will focus on practices to manage the body’s response to stress and lower situational anxiety by:

• Reviewing basic information about the mind/body dynamic of stress response and anxiety 
• Explanation of how specific breathing practices reduce stress hormones in the body
• followed by a short instructor-led practice
• Explanation of how specific movement practices combined with conscious breathing release tension in the body, followed by a short instructor-led practice
• Introduction of a simple mindfulness practice that brings breath and body together followed by a short instructor-led practice
• Suggestions for mindful lifestyle habits that support healthy self-regulation
• Time for Q and A and live feedback from participants 

Webinar Highlights

• How high anxiety and poor stress management affects cognitive, emotional, social and personal well-being
• The critical need for intelligent and effective stress and anxiety management skills in daily life
• Examining anxiety as a physiological response to stress
• How to manage the body’s physiological stress response through breath control
• Physical movements that can release tension in the body and lower anxiety
• Combining breath and mindfulness practices to lower anxiety
• Tips for living mindfully to enhance physical and mental well-being overall

Who Should Attend

This webinar is designed for professionals working in industries and settings where critical thinking and successful collaboration are key skills to achieving satisfaction and success: corporate management and leadership, medicine, education, government, entrepreneurial ventures.