From Jan. 14 - 18, 2008, the De la Salle Health Sciences Institute introduced a one week 1-1/2 hour Office Yoga lecture-workshop series for employees. HRD Training Officer Ms. Lorali Ann Beltran-Reyes started the 1st day of the workshop and introduced the Research Vice Chancellor Dr. Melchor Frias IV to give the opening remarks. Five different batches of employees attended the workshop.
The 5-day activity was initiated and facilitated by Dr. Simbulan , Chair of the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Services) of DLS-HSI, in cooperation with the HRD (Training Section) and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Mission and Linkages. An 18 page illustrated handout prepared by CIM was reproduced by the HRD. HRD, with the help of HRD staff assistant Honeyleen Estano, mobilized employees from various university units to attend daily sessions to learn some practical stress management exercises, and provided afternoon snacks after the workshop. Photos taken by Mang Jess.
CIM will now be offering this as a continuing program for employees of the DLS-HSI whole year round during office hours for those who have not been able to attend. It has also started offering it to regular student participants of Yoga classes in the evenings. We hope to export this to other DLS Philippines units in the future.
Office Yoga offers practical exercises for office and school employees, as well as students, who live sedentary lifestyles during the 8-hours of stay in campus. Office Yoga is basically synchronization of slow breathing exercises (belly breathing/ diaphragmatic breathing, also called "ocean sound-breathing" through the nostrils) and physical stretching movements in an office or classroom situation, while the practitioner is seated on a chair. It can also be done at home or in one's dormitory.
Office Yoga is meant to train participants to induce the "relaxation response" (1, 2 ) which was discovered through controlled research studies by Dr. Herbert Benson of the Department of Physiology of Harvard University in the mid-1970's, in the same laboratory where Dr. Cannon discovered the "stress response". Dr. Herbert Benson has since built up the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine of the Massachussets General Hospital.
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