State of the art Christin Staubo 21 april 2011

Help professionals that attend Yoga class at Avalon to be more aware of

their negative emotional responses in work meetings

Emotional creatures

Emotions At work

The mindfulness practice in the west

Work and Yoga =

“6 years of yoga don’t make you a yogi”

• Very emotional, family history of high emotions,

• Practices yoga 3times a week for 6 years gets a lot of benefit out of it,

• When she is working she don’t like to be disturbed or when she gets negative feedback she overreacts

• Problem: inability to apply the techniques that she knows and believes in.

“After one month the feeling is gone”

• Practiced yoga over a 6month period 4 h everyday, lived at the zen center in SF for 3months

• After one month of not practicing the feeling of mindfulness and control was gone

• Searching for calmness and control of emotions

“Getting into the state of mind takes a long time”

• Coming into the mindfulness and lovingkindness takes a very long time to get into

Conflicting lives and mind states

“Mindfulness, mindfulness is the chant of yogis. But the words that we speak and the way that we live do not always match,

Current solutions

Learning and changing is hard

Programs

1. Realize that you are angry

2. Identify the problem

3. What are the alternatives

4. Act

Self- help guides

Retreats

Coaches and Guides

Group-counseling

Courses and presentations

Exercise and meditation

apps

Personalized Public

Everyday situations Defined space

apps

Retreats

coach

Seminars at work Meditation classes/yoga

Group counseling

Self help books

conclusion

• Solutions not personalized or outside of real- life

• Takes a long time to change with the current programs

• Need for individualized trigger in real-life

• Yoga practioners are motivated and have the ablity to not stress in confined places but not in everyday situations. How to help them quicker be a practioner and so forth help them bridge the gap of frustration of training and eveyday life.

Questions?