Yoga and the Office: Shoulder Edition

Aside from the back, another area of the body that tends to be negatively affected by hours of sitting at a desk and typing away on a computer is the shoulders. Luckily for the shoulders sufferers out there, yoga has great stretches for loosening shoulders and releasing physical as well as mental tension.

Yoga and the Office: Back Edition

Oh, the sore back. After slouching for hours, you can feel the soreness spread, and just like that, sitting at your desk goes from being relatively painless to actually painful. When you’re experiencing that kind of discomfort, it’s hard to focus and you may find that your productivity suffers.

Fixing your posture is the best way to avoid that soreness, and strengthening your core will definitely help you sit up straight. In the meantime,  here are two yoga stretches you can do at work that will help you relieve that dull pain.

Don’t worry, you won’t be doing this. Yet.

Yoga and the Office

Plenty of fitness fads come and go. The list of tenuous trends goes on and on; including anything from specially shaped toning sneakers, to belly dancing, to vibrating treadmill-like contraptions. One type of exercise trend that’s hot, both literally and figuratively, right now is Yoga. Although Yoga originated in India more than a thousand years ago, I’m hoping it becomes a fitness fad that stays.

Among its many benefits, like leaner muscles and an increase in focus and flexibility, Yoga can help eliminate some of the joint pains we get after working a long day. Here are two poses that can ameliorate some of those office-induced pains, leaving you relaxed and refreshed.