Forget Heavy-Duty Painkillers, Back Surgery and Wrist Splints -- Simple At-Your-Desk Yoga Exercises Help Reduce Office Workers’ Computer-Related Pains
Are your wrists, elbows, arms, neck, upper back sore or tight now, or during a day at work? Become pain free without using surgery, medications and alcohol. It take 2 minutes.
Calgary, AB (PRWEB) August 29, 2006 -–
For the millions of daily computer users tempted to turn to medication, alcohol, street drugs or surgery to manage aches and pains in the neck, back, wrists and shoulders, an alternative, all-natural approach is now available. A new book, Yoga for the Desk Jockey, describes simple at-your-desk exercises derived from traditional yoga moves that prevent aches and pains associated with computer work from escalating into unmanageable health problems (www. yogaforthedeskjockey. com).
“Yoga has a lot to offer people interested in drug-free, no-surgery ways to ease the strains of computer work,” says Susi Hately Aldous, a former ergonomics consultant who became a certified yoga instructor and now owns a yoga studio called Functional Synergy in Calgary. “But I needed to experiment and adapt these techniques for use throughout the day in the modern office. In Yoga for the Desk Jockey, I present fun and effective movements, stretches and breathing exercises that the average person can easily perform right at their desk in ordinary office clothes.”
“In the yoga classes I was teaching, I asked people to try various yoga poses, breathing and meditation techniques while at work,” says Ms. Hately Aldous, and then report back to me how they felt during the rest of the day. They all said they felt less pain and were less irritable with co-workers.”
The 25+ simple breathing, stretching and stress-release techniques in the book take the reader through a typical work day, from leaving for work, while commuting, taking a break, finishing the work day, heading home to getting ready to go to sleep. Besides less reliance on medication, alcohol, street drugs or surgery to manage pain, those following this regime experience greater productivity and more comfort – not to mention lower health-care costs and lower wear and tear on the body.
Yoga for the Desk Jockey with audio CD by Susi Hately Aldous, ISBN 0973889403, costs $19.99 and can be purchased at www. amazon. com or at www. yogaforthedeskjockey. com. Corporate bulk rates for the book are available.
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