Tuesday, June 12, 2012


Stress Management For The Office Goer

5 effective tips to manage office stress.


Breathe

Breathing is the secret to a calmer mind, especially if your work entitles making key decisions.
Breath control is everything.
The most common layman tip when your angry is count till ten before you speak.
Yoga experts recommend taking ten slow deep breaths before you react or say anything.
Practice ten deep breaths daily three times a day, maybe more if you feel anxiety or any kind of discomfort. This will tackle any stress before it sets in and becomes a physical symptom.
First thing in the morning when you wake up. Sit in a quiet place, spine straight, close your eyes
and take deep breaths, slowing down the exhalation.  Visualize yourself relaxing and becoming light with each exhalation.
Do this three times a day. You will soon get better at it. And then let the magic begin.

Sleep

I have often heard students and clients boasting about how they can make do with just 4 to 5 hrs. of asleep.
For someone who needs 8 hrs sleep, this is shocking for me.
Without adequate sleep the body is not able to fully recoup and repair from its daily rigorous routine.
If you have a packed day, which most of us do. It’s even more important to get your required amount of sleep.
Or you will compromise your immunity and end up spending you hard earned money on medicines or god forbid, hospital bills.
I say, “a good night’s sleep, is a pound saved.”

Exercise

All health and exercise research bodies recommend three times a week of resistance training and three times a week of cardiovascular exercise to stay fit.
Most Doctors recommend walking, it’s the best way to keep disease at bay, especially if you are
pre-disposed to hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease etc.
If time is the constraint then introduce 20to30 mins of walking minimum twice a week on your weekly holidays. If you don’t know what that is, then we have a serious problem here.


Nurture

Do you get ‘me’ time? Do you get time alone with yourself?
Nurture yourself, don’t lose yourself in the daily routine. Spend time doing something you enjoy daily. It could be watching a sunset, enjoying the breeze, going for a massage, sitting in the garden listening to the birds chirping, sipping a hot cup of tea in solitude, reading your favourite book, listening to your favourite music, any hobby which makes you happy etc
Spend time with yourself.  Constant talking is also very draining.
Take care of yourself. Be aware of all that you do or say. Be in the moment.



Attitude

Do you constantly feel life has been unjust to you? That you have got a raw deal?
Things never go your way… before you know it, frustration sets in and along comes depression.
We all have plenty of reasons to be thankful for, psychologist say that an attitude of gratitude plays an important part in your mental makeup and success.
Happy people take things positively and bounce back faster, they are also better at taking care of themselves.
Creating and harbouring negative thoughts is harmful for your overall well-being and also weakens your inherent coping mechanism, leaving you vulnerable to all kinds of attacks like disease, accidents etc
Negativity will decrease your awareness and sap your energy as a result you could be easily taken advantage of or become sloppy eg, forgetting your phone in the cab.
Develop the right attitude. Write down 5 things you are grateful for daily in your diary. Be kind to yourself and others. Smile often. Be safe.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Bollywood OVERDOSE!



The Bollywood cardio workout
Is a choreographed aerobics class done on latest Bollywood tracks.
Our popular themes for these classes are:
1) ‘Go Govinda’
Learn the dance moves of the most popular one man show.
Pelvic jhatkas and matkas along with the expressions. Have a blast working out.



2) ‘Sangeet tamasha’
Exercise on wedding songs, popular moves and steps performed at a typical Indian sangeet.





3) ‘Item song&dance’
Want to feel like an item girl or item guy. Groove on these famous item numbers and feel like a star.





4) ‘Punjab di groove’
Get a cardio workout on popular Punjabi folk and pop songs




5) ‘Disco club moves’
Be a mover and shaker at all parties. Learn to groove on all kinds of music.
This class will help you find the dancer within.



Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Just the way you are


Just the way you are…

One of the many things I like doing, is dedicating songs to all the amazing people I meet,
 coming from the land of Bollywood films, been ‘filmi’ (local lingo for melodrama) comes naturally to me.
 I so want to paste a smiley wink after that sentence, I have to hold myself back and reprimand myself that this is not BBM or an sms.
So no dramatics.

 To come to the point, what if someone asks you to dedicate a song to yourself, 
which one would you choose and why?

 Write to me, I would love to know more about you and of course what better way to learn about music then from someone who knows theirs.

It would be tough for me to name just one, but for the moment let’s say I choose
‘Just the way you are’ originally sung by Billy Joel , the version I like is by Diana Krall .
It’s a song I dedicate to myself.
In our quest for physical perfection we sometimes lose ourselves, forgetting who we are and what makes us unique.

Wellness to me means revelling in our differences and aspiring for balance and harmony in our lives. Nurturing what makes us inherently who we are; and giving fuel to the goodness in all of us, on a daily basis.
This is an exercise in spiritual fitness, that helps us cope with the day to day pressures and stress.
If everything and everyone looked the same, the world would be such a boring place. Its all the differences in life that make living so interesting. Celebrate your uniqueness and rejoice in it.
Start with dedicating a song to yourself every week, experience the joy that music brings into our lives.
Take care of yourself; there is no one else like you.

Be well.