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Video on Demand Program: Yoga Works for Employee Health and Wellness

Online Series for Human Resource and Worksite Wellness Professionals

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.

Are you unsure of how to evaluate what yoga might meet the needs of your employees?
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?
This 4-session video-on-demand series is designed for people who work in human resources and worksite wellness as well as 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 sessions will include:
Session 1: Yoga Therapy for Low Back Pain 
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.

Session 2: Yoga Therapy for Stress & Anxiety Management
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.

Session 3: Yoga Therapy for Better Sleep 
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.

Session 4: Yoga Therapy for Gut Health 
Digestive issues are a growing concern among the U.S. workforce. 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.

Objectives for the Series:
• Learn more about targeted approaches to yoga for a variety of common concerns in the working population, including productivity, stress, low back pain, upper back, neck and shoulder tension, gut health, and sleeplessness.
• Experience short yoga practices for stress reduction, low back pain, upper back, neck and shoulder tension, sleeplessness, daytime fatigue, and gut health.
• How to approach yoga in the worksite with ideas about assessing what your employees need, their level of yoga experience, and what type of yoga products might work best based on schedules.

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.  She also helps facilitate connections with 5 Koshas Yoga & Wellness teacher for on-site worksite programs.

Mary Hilliker

Mary’s intention is to meet you where you are and to help you move and change from that starting point. Her class series, workshops, and retreats highlight yoga tools and practices that help you gain self-sufficiency and independence in your home practice.  Her Yoga Therapy practice and Yoga Therapy groups focuses on healing and recovery from injury, surgery and illness, pain management, stress and anxiety management, and trauma recovery.

“Whether you want to condition your body, reduce pain, de-stress, sleep better, reduce anxiety, adopt a healthier lifestyle habit or strive to reach your full potential, I’m ready to help you apply the yoga tools that you are relevant for your life.”

Mary has been a yoga practitioner for 32 years and a teacher for 23 years. She holds certifications as a 200 hr. level Hatha yoga teacher, 500 hr. Viniyoga teacher, and Viniyoga Therapist.  She is a Certified Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists and past Curriculum Coordinator and Faculty with the American Viniyoga Institute’s Yoga Therapist Training.  Locally, Mary coordinates and is the lead teacher for the 200 hr. and 300 hr. River Flow Yoga Teacher Trainings.

Her 30 year career as a registered dietitian/nutritionist and health educator in public health, nutrition, and chronic disease prevention, inform her yoga teaching and individualized Yoga Therapy.

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For more information on yoga programs for your worksite, contact Mary at mary@5koshasyoga.com 

Let’s set up a time to talk more about your employee needs and what kinds of programs may work.