The Impact of Practicing Yoga on the Organization: A Study on Stress Reduction from the Participants’ Perspectives

Key Points

• Some of the benefits reported by the interviewed individuals include improvement in the following: self-awareness, stress management, physical health, and psychological health.
• A common theme in interviews revealed “…individual stress levels negatively affected the organization so that both the quality of work suffered and the work environment became inhospitable as a result of stressed members”.
• Other individual benefits included: greater bonding, mental or psychological flexibility, and greater ability to work out conflicts with less competition.
• Overall, yoga benefited the organization’s health as both internal work relationships were further developed and external client/vendor relationships improved.

Source: https://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1209&context=diss