Inward Office teaches tools to deepen self-awareness. Participants may practice fine-tuned awareness to body signals indicating the level of health. Participants may grow attentive to their mood as a physical phenomenon: whether anxious or depressed. And finally, our classes teach interoceptive, body based techniques to change our state through movement, attention training, and relaxation. The ability to change our mood, improve our range of motion, or shift our attention is essential for resilience,

The kind of self awareness that comes from our classes is a key component of emotional intelligence, psychologically safe workplaces, and healthy employees.

How to stimulate interest in your virtual program:

1.    Testimonials. From Inward Office’s clients or your organization’s own employees. Participants experience health transformations that we don't know about until we ask! Celebrate and share these wins! Inward Office can make the request of your employees and send the respond to you.

2.    Invite a specific department to a virtual fitness class. Personalize the invitation. Let Inward Office know and we will do a special welcome for the group. Incorporate the class into a team building initiative.

3.    Q&A Session. Hold a Q&A or brief introduction to the class format with the instructor for 10 minutes before a scheduled class for your organization.  

4.    Stream a virtual fitness class in a conference room. Hold the virtual class in-person at your office in a conference room (don’t forget to reserve spots for each of the class participants). 

5.    Highlight fun! Zumba on Tuesday nights, HIIT Sculpt or SOULFusion are fun fitness formats that are also high energy. Participants may feel a surge in endorphins, strength, and enjoyment after class.

6.    Start with an Inward Office workshop. Book a one-time class on a specific topic important to your employees and aligned with your company culture. Have this class recorded & shared among the whole staff. Have this be a promotion for the on-going classes on the calendar.

7.    Training days.  Start an employee training day with a 15 minute stretch led by Inward Office.  Share the information about classes at new employee orientation.

8.    Conferences or Retreats.  Include a movement class in a retreat or conference day to break up the day and rejuvenate attention. Use this as a way to share the classes.

9.    Share an Inward Office YouTube video:

a.    Inward Office Loving Kindness video: https://youtu.be/lMSNBPdH-0M?t=26

b.    What’s mindfulness: https://youtu.be/w6T02g5hnT4

c.    Mindfulness at Work: https://youtu.be/abkO6yqdT_I

d.    Basics of our Core Classes with Kellie:    https://youtu.be/LYtEU990Wc8

10. Request a recording to share on your intranet. We are sharing short recordings via our newsletter beginning in late 2021.

11. Noticing colleagues being critical and hard on themselves? Suggest the team join Mindfulness Meditation or learn about self-compassion in a team building workshop.

12. Burnout? Highlight taking a break. Use the daytime classes or schedule an exclusive class for your organization. We find classes 30 minutes or less are well attended.

13. Highlight that these classes are for total beginners and those returning to exercise. We teach safe ways to progress the intensity of our practice.  Be aware of the safety that employees may feel behind the computer, at home, exercising in their own environment & emphasize that.

14.  Begin anywhere. Begin where you are. Especially in yoga, our instructors highlight starting with the flexibility and strength of your own body. We don’t believe in the old adage: no pain, no gain. We believe motion is lotion and leads to enhanced mobility.

15. Incorporated into a challenge. Encourage everyone to sign up for a class during a challenge, or have Inward Office hold exclusive classes to compliment what you already have scheduled. Participants that are enthusiastic can continue after the challenge.

15. Share the 117 health conditions that benefit from a yoga practice.  Dr. McCall amassed a list of 117 health conditions that benefit from a regular yoga practice. www.drmccall.com On his website, he not only lists the conditions but also the studies he reviewed.

The irony is that in yoga therapy, we don’t treat medical conditions per se. We treat individuals. We help them de-stress, stand and sit with better posture, breath more efficiently, calm their nervous systems and boost their immune function. We give them practices that help them sleep better, feel happier, find greater peace of mind and a heightened sense of meaning and fulfillment in *as shown in scientific studies their lives. By doing these things (and much more), yoga can help almost any health condition, mental or physical, to improve. More precisely, the people with these conditions can feel better and function better — whether from a medical standpoint they can be cured or not. This is what holistic health — which considers every aspect of mind, body, spirit and environment — is all about. – Dr. Timothy McCall