Well-Being at Workplace: A Perspective from Traditions of Yoga and Ayurveda

Dagar, Chirag; Pandey, Ashish

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02470-3_46-1

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“…The main results from this study tell us that all 13 interviewees experienced yoga as contributing to increased mental and physical health and wellbeing and enabling them to cope with and experience less stress. These findings reinforce what other research has found, both about the impact of yoga generally on stress and wellbeing ( 33–38 ) and about the beneficial impact of yoga related to workplace stress (Bandari et al, 2012; ( 43–45 , 51 , 52 , 56 , 74 , 75 )). These positive impacts of yoga seemed to have been especially facilitated by yogic breathing or Pranayama.…”

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“…Our study supports what is well established in the research literature: that yoga is an efficient way to manage stress, even in workplaces ( 51 , 52 , 75 , 83 ). Our research findings also support the increasing research focus on wellbeing in the workplace ( 44 , 56 ). One of the advantages of qualitative studies like ours is that they illustrate the elements that constitute to the experiences of less stress and increased wellbeing for different individuals.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Also educational professionals experience stress due to contradictory demands, and find that yoga strengthens their ability to cope ( 12 , 30 , 44 , 55 ). Wellbeing at work is important for all professions, considering the time and effort involved in tasks and performance, as well as the organizational outcome ( 56 ). Increased wellbeing can be a protective factor against mental health problems, as well as severe problems like anxiety and depression.…”

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The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners’ experiences

Hagen,

Hagen

2024

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundWorkplace stress is a serious problem globally. It represents a major threat to the UN’s sustainability goal of good health and wellbeing (SDG 3). The purpose of this article is to explore how yoga may be a tool for increased wellbeing and stress management at work and in everyday life.MethodsTo examine how yoga can facilitate employees’ wellbeing and ability to cope with stress, we performed qualitative interviews with practitioners who did yoga regularly. We focused on how yoga was experienced by each of our interviewees and what practicing yoga meant to them. Our data material consists of 13 semi-structured lifeworld interviews. The sample consisted of 10 female and 3 male in the age range of 20–55 years old. The data were analyzed through a thematic analysis.ResultsThe themes identified in the thematic analysis include: (1) yoga as a tool for increased wellbeing, (2) yoga for coping with stress and dealing with challenges, (3) the role of breathing, and (4) contextual factors. While confirming other research findings, this article elaborates on aspects informants described as induced by yoga, like self-awareness, calmness, balance, mood-lifting, focus, presence, self-care, and mastery. The reported positive outcomes of yoga constituted increased wellbeing, and also facilitated the ability to cope with stress and experience less stress. Informants also emphasized that yogic breathing was a central factor in inducing wellbeing and feeling less stressed. They also expressed that contextual factors, such as time, teacher, and location, influenced how practicing yoga was experienced and made sense of.ConclusionThe study concludes that the interviewees experienced practicing yoga as positive, by reducing their occupational stress. Moreover, yoga increased their wellbeing, as well as their ability to cope with stress. These experienced changes were especially facilitated by yogic breathing, and influenced by contextual factors.

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