Yoga Works for Employee Health & Wellness: Human Resource & Worksite Wellness Professionals | Online 4-Week Series
April 30, 2024 May 21, 2024
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Are you looking for health and wellness programs that meet the needs of your employees? Yoga is more than just physical exercise – it can be an opportunity to work more deeply on issues that arise from a dysregulated nervous system. Gut health, sleep, pain management, stress management, anxiety, and depression symptoms may be improved by using yoga practices that impact the nervous system.

Not all yoga is alike. Learn more about the kinds of approaches that may be more conducive to

your employees and what they have going on. Yoga therapy programs are developed with

symptom relief in mind. Programs might address low back pain, upper back, neck and shoulder

pain, stress and anxiety management, better sleep, gut health, anxiety management, and

seasonal mood changes.

Interested in learning more? Join me for a 4-session series designed for people who work in human resources and worksite wellness and health professionals who want to learn more about Yoga Therapy. During the 4-session series, you will learn about yoga therapy approaches for specific employee health needs and experience a practice to give you a real-life example of how yoga works. The format of the session will be a quick check-in and overview, yoga practice, and time for Q&A (and your lunch).

What if I can’t make all the sessions? You will have 7-day access to a recording of the session. You will receive an email to let you know when the recording is available.

Low back pain is one of the most common issues that you will see in any workplace. Yoga

therapy offers self-management tools that can help a broad range of people with low back pain.

Have a yoga mat, stretchy clothes, and a towel for padding knees.

One of the most common reasons that people practice yoga is to release tension and feel

happier. Yoga techniques for stress management can help improve physical tension,

headaches, gut health, sleep, anxiety and depression. In this session, we’ll focus on relieving

stress in the upper back, neck, and shoulders and soothing the nervous system with a simple

breathing technique.

Sleep issues are prevalent in the workforce. While the causes of sleep issues are varied, yoga

therapy offers a variety of tools that are adapted to individuals to help them manage

sleeplessness and daytime fatigue. In this session, we explore 2 mini practices to deal with

getting to sleep and how to energize after a sleepless night.

Digestive issues are a growing concern among the U.S. workforces. Yoga therapy tools can be

helpful for the most common digestive issues. In this session, you will learn how to regulate the

gut’s nervous system through movement and breathing.

Facilitator/Teacher: Mary Hilliker, RDN, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Experienced Yoga Teacher and Certified Yoga Therapist. She is co-owner of 5 Koshas Yoga & Wellness in Wausau, WI and owner/lead teacher at the River Flow Yoga Teacher Training School in Wausau and Sturgeon Bay, WI. 

Mary has managed a worksite wellness program and has provided wellness programming in various worksites. She currently works with public and private online Yoga Therapy groups and develops Video-on-Demand yoga programs designed to meet specific needs.

Do You Need Continuing Education Credits? A certificate of participation will be issued at the conclusion of the program.

Fee: This program is free for professionals who work in Human Resources or Employee Health &

Wellness as well as health professionals and yoga teachers who are interested in learning more

about Yoga Therapy.

Registration Questions? Email [email protected] o

Program Questions? Email Mary at [email protected]