Maybe shift your gaze toward the sky.Īs you exhale, draw your navel toward your spine and round your back. Draw the tips of your shoulder blades toward each other and peel your heart open. And you can even practice this discreetly in your office chair.Īs you inhale, expand your belly forward in space. Nothing gets your blood flowing quite like some flexion and extension of the spine. Seated Marjarasana/Bitilasana (Cat/Cow Pose) Hold for about 30 seconds, unwind, and switch sides.ģ. With each breath out, carefully rotate a little bit deeper into your twist.
With each breath in, grow a little bit taller through your spinal column. Rest your left hand on your right knee.Īs you exhale, spiral and rotate over your right shoulder. Sit on the edge of your chair with your feet flat on the floor and elongate your spine.Īs you inhale, stretch the crown of your head to the sky and reach your right hand behind your right hip. Hold here for at least ten deep breaths and then draw your head back to neutral and repeat on the opposite side.Ī gentle spinal twist can invigorate you as it carefully “caresses” your spinal column.įind a comfortable seat.
Soften your jaw and relax the muscles of your face. (Note: You can rest a hand gently on the side of the head, but be sure not to pull down, simply relax the weight of the arm.) Gently release your right ear toward your right shoulder. Soften your shoulders down away from your ears and reach the crown of your head to the sky. Simple but so effective, a gentle neck stretch can awaken and release your sore neck muscles after staring at a screen for too long.įind a comfortable seat and elongate your spine. Practice one or all of these subtle and discreet yoga poses the next time you feel like your eyelids are a bit too heavy. So get your blood circulating and your energy pumping! Here Are 6 Yoga Poses You Can Practice in the Office for a Quick Caffeine-Free Pick-Me-Up If we just move our bodies even a little bit every 30 minutes or so, then our energy levels will be higher, and our productivity will skyrocket. We can be sneaky little yogis, even in heels or suits in the office. But, as always, yoga can be our saving grace! So we desperately await our coffee breaks to get a pick-me-up. The secret to vitality lies in movement.īut, most of us aren’t able to bust out our treadmills at the cubicle or bench press our coworkers. In fact, contrary to what seems intuitive, being sedentary actually creates tiredness. And by the time we get home, we want nothing but the couch and Netflix.īut, it doesn’t have to be that way. We rely on caffeine hits to make it through our midday meetings. We’re exhausted before we even make it to our desk in the morning. The dreaded eight-hour workday can slowly chip away at us.