Practical yoga therapy for the pressures of working life
Sustained pressure, poor recovery, disrupted sleep, physical strain, and changing work demands can gradually affect how people feel, function, and work.
Mindful Yogis works with organisations to provide practical yoga therapy that helps people manage these pressures more effectively and develop practices they can use in everyday working life.
From focused workshops to ongoing group practice and structured programmes, the support is shaped around the needs of your people and the realities of your work demands.
Understand the situation before designing the support
We begin by understanding the people, pressures, and work demands involved before recommending a format. The aim is support that is relevant to their situation, rather than a pre-designed wellbeing programme.
Understand
We discuss the pressures people are facing, the support that already exists, practical constraints such as time and delivery format, and what you would like the work to address.
Design
I recommend a format and structure appropriate to the situation. This may be a focused workshop, regular group practice, or a programme delivered over several weeks.
Deliver and review
The work is delivered online or, where appropriate, in person. For longer programmes, we review participation, experience, and agreed areas of change so that the work can be adjusted where needed.
From a focused session to a structured programme
Workshops
Focused sessions around stress, sleep, recovery, movement, or burnout. A practical starting point when you want to address a particular issue, support an existing wellbeing initiative, or give people tools they can begin applying immediately.
Ongoing group practice
Regular guided sessions that give employees a consistent opportunity to work with movement, breathing, relaxation, and attention, creating continuity and regular chances to recover, reset, and practise. Best suited to organisations looking for continuity rather than a one-off event.
Structured programmes
Multi-week programmes for organisations wanting to address a clearly defined need in greater depth. Guided practice is combined with learning, reflection, and review, so participants build something over time rather than relying on a one-off intervention.
Experience across different working environments
Mindful Yogis has worked with individuals and organisations across corporate, educational, and professional settings.
Changes that matter in working life
The focus depends on the needs of the group and the format of the work. Depending on the context, it may support people in areas such as:
Managing pressure more effectively
Recognising stress patterns and responding before they accumulate.
Sleep and recovery
Developing practical ways to support recovery between periods of effort.
Energy and sustainable effort
Recognising limits and working more intelligently with available capacity.
Physical ease
Addressing the effects of prolonged sitting, repetitive work, and physical tension.
Attention under pressure
Working with concentration, mental agitation, and the ability to settle.
Sustainable practice
Building realistic restorative habits that can continue beyond a workshop or programme.
For structured programmes, we can agree in advance what is worth reviewing and how progress will be considered.
Evidence behind the approach
93%
recorded lower burnout scores
28 of the 30 participants who followed the yoga programme
The findings come from Karthikeyan's MSc study of an online yoga programme for adults experiencing burnout in the Netherlands. Thirty people followed the programme and completed the same outcome measures at the start and at the end.
Participants were not randomly assigned, and individual outcomes vary.
How we measure this →Executive one-to-one
Senior roles often carry a particular kind of pressure: sustained responsibility, complex decisions, long hours, constant transitions, and limited space to recover before the next demand arrives. Over time, that can affect sleep, energy, physical tension, concentration, and the ability to genuinely switch off.
Executive one-to-one yoga therapy provides a private setting to work with these pressures in a way that is specific to the individual. Sessions are shaped around the person's present capacity, health, schedule, and priorities, with the work adapting as those needs change.
The focus may include recovery, sleep, energy, physical tension, attention, or recognising the patterns that make it difficult to settle and restore. The aim is not simply to manage pressure in the moment, but to develop practical ways of maintaining greater steadiness and a more sustainable relationship with effort, responsibility, and recovery.
This is a separate one-to-one offering for senior leaders, and it can sit alongside existing coaching, occupational health, or clinical care where relevant.
A confidential initial conversation allows us to understand what you are managing and whether one-to-one yoga therapy would be appropriate.
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Karthikeyan
Before training in yoga therapy, I worked as a corporate lawyer. I know working life from the inside: deadlines, prolonged concentration, long hours, competing demands, and the habit of continuing through fatigue because the work still has to be done.
I later completed an MSc in Yoga at S-VYASA, including an MSc study on burnout and sleep in the Netherlands. Those two backgrounds come together in the work I do with organisations: an understanding of workplace demands, combined with a therapeutic approach to movement, breathing, recovery, and sustainable practice.
More about my background and approach →Talk through what your team needs
In a 30-minute conversation, we can look at what your people are managing, the support you already have in place, and what form of yoga therapy could be useful. If there is a good fit, we can then outline an appropriate next step.
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