Corporate yoga    •    Private individual sessions

"Rosetta has a gentle yet encouraging approach to her yoga teaching. She is very respectful of where people are at in their practice and gives them the tools to improve and ultimately surprise themselves on what they can achieve!" -- Shelby French

Corporate yoga and lunchtime mini-sessions are available onsite at your location. Mini-sessions (30 to 45 minutes) focus on any of a variety of techniques to boost energy levels, foster focus and concentration, and reduce stress. Chair yoga, breathing exercises and simple meditation techniques can all be part of the mix.

Results of a study published in the June 2009 issue of Health Education & Behavior showed that workplace stress was signficantly reduced when participants attended a one-hour weekly group class during lunch and practiced 20 minutes of meditation and yoga per day at their desks. After six weeks, program participants reported that they were more aware of external stressors, they felt less stressed by life events, and they fell asleep more easily than did a control group that did not experience the intervention.

“Because chronic stress is associated with chronic disease, I am focusing on how to reduce stress before it has a chance to contribute to disease,” said Maryanna Klatt, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of clinical allied medicine at Ohio State University.

Findings of this pilot study indicate that employees can significantly reduce their health care utilization because they’re less stressed.

Management consultant Jeffrey A. Miller writes, in his excellent book The Anxious Organization:

"In seeking to relieve their own anxiety, individuals usually pass it on to someone else. Thus, anxiety tends to travel in cycles that have no clear starting point while the underlying cause of the anxiety goes unaddressed. Because a organization is a system in which all members are connected, an individual can change the entire system by changing his or her own behavior."

To explore how yoga can assist in this type of organic change from within, please contact Rosetta.

"Rosetta listened carefully to my issues and concerns, and designed a thoughful and insightful yoga practice just for me. She found some very clever ways to use my body's strengths to approach my personal challenges." -- Sarah Becan

For individuals, private instruction in hatha yoga is available at $45 per 60-minute session. (This introductory price is available for a limited time only.) Each student also receives a home practice plan tailored to the student's unique needs.

All private sessions are scheduled at Yogam Saranam (at Flamenco Chicago Studio), 2914 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago, near the intersection of Belmont, California, and Elston Avenues. Private classes are taught by Rosetta Magdalen, who is registered with the Yoga Alliance as an instructor at the 200-hour level (RYT200).

For more information, please contact Rosetta.

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." -- The Dalai Lama