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What can YoPO do for me?
YoPO provides quick, easy and accessible movement, mindfulness, lifestyle and nutrition suggestions to support your wellbeing if you are busy, don’t move much during your working day and don’t have much time to look after yourself.
Keeping hydrated, nourishing yourself with real food, taking regular breaks from the desk and keeping your body moving can transform your working day, lift your mood and improve your performance at work.
But one size doesn’t fit all. Everyone’s needs are different and you may need different things from one day to the next. Our content is bite sized and flexible so that you can quickly identify what might help and try it out. Over time you will build a resource bank of what will help you most in different situations.
What benefits I should expect?
Physical health and wellbeing:
Reduction in aches, pains and niggles – particularly neck, back and shoulder issues that can cause problems for people who sit still for a lot of their working day.
Improvement in flexibility – stretching exercises help to reduce the risk of injury when running, playing sports or being active in daily life and twisting exercises help to keep the back mobile.
Improvement in general fitness – the more active exercises act as a mini workout, building heat, increasing the heart rate and improving muscle tone.
Improvement to posture – exercises focusing on the back and the core increase focus on body alignment and can improve habitual ways of standing and sitting.
Building muscle strength – weight bearing exercises help to build strength in a similar way to working with weights in the gym.
Improvement to balance – balancing exercises have multiple health benefits including strengthening the core and improving muscular reaction time, which reduce the risk of injury by falling.
A focus on proper nutrition will help you to build steady lasting energy that doesn’t crash by mid afternoon and support weight management – by sourcing your calories from foods with high nutrient value you will be less likely to reach for the biscuit tin or celebration cake.
Mental health and wellbeing:
Improvement in your mood – you may feel happier, more optimistic, and more motivated after some simple movement, after following one of our lifestyle tips.
Short breaks for movement or a wellbeing practice can increase energy and give added zest for life
Better focus and concentration – mindful movement or other mindfulness practices can help you to stay in the moment
Reduced stress – mindfulness practices including breathing practices encourage slowing down the breath and calming the mind. Moving and stretching can reduce physical tension.
Improvement in sleep – especially when building relaxing practices into your daily routine.
Staying hydrated and regular high quality nutrition on a daily basis can help to support all of the above, particularly by preventing swings in blood sugar levels which can lead to feeling on edge, reduced alertness and impaired concentration.
How do I decide what to do?
Our content can be used in different ways to best suit your circumstances and your physical and mental needs. Each type of content can be filtered to help you to find what will suit you best:
- Our poses can be filtered by Body Focus (physical benefit) or Feeling focus (mental benefit) and if applicable by body area. Each will take a minute or less. Bookmark your favourites so you can come back to them
- Our practices include sequences combining a number of poses and sometimes lifestyle recommendations, short videos that can be used for guided practices, plus resources for breathwork and eye exercises.
- Our lifestyle content includes ideas for short actions or activities that you can fit into a short break to help improve your wellbeing
- Our courses provide structured content relating to different wellbeing themes to allow you to explore practices to support particular needs in more depth
How should I get prepared?
All of our poses and practices can be practised wherever is convenient, without any special equipment and wearing normal clothing. Some activities may invite you to briefly step outside.
How can I get into good habits to support my wellbeing?
We recommend that you focus on what your main needs are right now – more energy? better focus? more ease of movement? any particular body area? and take some time experimenting to work out what works for you best.
Try to build healthy habits into your daily routines, for instance:
- Stretch your body before sitting down at the desk
- Sprinkle simple movements and/or mindfulness moments into your working day eg while waiting for a document to load, after completing a task or before a meeting
- Build regular desk breaks into your day – just 5 minutes per hour of walking can make a real difference
- Get moving during your lunch break, even if only for a short time, making sure that you use your legs and stretch any areas of your body that are feeling the effects of sitting
- Build in a slot to move the body and calm the mind after work to create a transition between work and home activities – particularly if you are working from home
- Build in a short breathing/meditation practice at times when you have a little slot of quiet time at home or work
- Plan your meals ahead – stock up on food cupboard essentials, shop for fresh food once a week and try to prepare your own meals and snacks as much as you can
- Stay hydrated – keep a bottle of water on your desk and sip throughout the working day
- Remember – every minute that you spend taking care of yourself helps, so start small and see where it takes you!
Pricing and charging options
Access to YoPO content for your employees can be provided via monthly or annual subscriptions.
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