Stress Management Training courses | Yoga and breath awareness

All of our teachers are experienced in a dynamic form of Hatha yoga and offer a class that includes active postures and breathing techniques. They'll happily tailor their class to a level that is suitable for your team. This class provides an excellent opportunity for your team to unwind from the stress and anxiety often found in a a demanding successful Stress at work.

At the end of this class, your employees will be completely relaxed and refreshed. Yoga is suitable for everyone, and amongst our team we have specifically trained yoga therapists.

Our teachers will show you how your breathing is connected to the flight or fight response and the relaxation response. Yoga is a wonderful tonic, traditionally an Eastern practice, it's now becoming popular in the West. In fact, more and more companies, in Britain are seeing the benefit yoga can have.

Research in stress points out that "employers are recognizing that relaxed workers are healthier and more creative, and are sponsoring yoga fitness programs.

Our teachers will show you how your breathing is connected to the flight or fight response and the relaxation response. Our approach is to bring both sides of the nervous system back into balance. People suffering from panic attacks and anxiety are often described as shallow breathers. We believe where the mind goes the body will follow and therefore if you change the way you breathe you will change the way you feel.

Fight or flight response

This is the body's response to perceived threat or danger. During this reaction, certain hormones like adrenalin and cortisol are released, speeding the heart rate, slowing digestion, shunting blood flow to major muscle groups, and changing various other autonomic nervous functions, giving the body a burst of energy and strength.

Originally named for its ability to enable us to physically fight or run away when faced with danger, it's now activated in situations where neither response is appropriate, like in traffic or during a stressful day at work.

Relaxation response

The counterpart to the fight-or-flight response, the relaxation response occurs when the body is no longer in perceived danger, and the autonomic nervous system functioning returns to normal.

During this response, the body moves from a state of physiological arousal to a state of physiological relaxation, where blood pressure, heart rate, digestive functioning and hormonal levels return to their normal state.