The fast-paced and demanding environment of the typical healthcare facility can take its toll on clinical and non-clinical staff.
Left unchecked, stress mounts and can spill over into negative interactions with patients, coworkers, and others.
In the self-training publication, "Yoga at Work: A Stress Reduction Guide," author Michaeline Kiss has updated 23 traditional yoga exercises for the modern healthcare facility. She notes that in just one to two minutes, either sitting at a desk or standing, healthcare workers can use these techniques to release stress and tension and focus on their patients.
While Kiss does recommend starting a yoga program with a group or team meeting she warns against practicing as a group, "You might be tempted to get your team together to practice these yoga postures and exercises as a group," she says, "whether as part of a training session or on an extracurricular basis. But, in general, yoga isn't really a group sport. The minute you make it a group practice, there's the temptation to become competitive, and some people might become self-conscious and not participate."
“The beauty of many yoga exercises,” she says, “is that they can be done individually
and right at one’s desk. By practicing on their own, the staff is always working at their own tempo, at their own pace, and they are doing just what they can do in the time they have available.”
"Yoga at Work: A Stress Reduction Guide" is one of six self-training guides from the Customer Service Group's Healthcare Division. Additional information on each of the guides is available online at http://www.CustomerServiceGroup.com/
