Yoga for Stress Relief: Quick Poses for Desk Dwellers
Yoga for Stress Relief: Quick Poses for Desk Dwellers Introduction The modern office environment creates a perfect storm for stress and physical tension. Eight to ten hours daily sitting at desks, hunched over keyboards, staring at screens—this posture becomes habitual, literally reshaping your body. Forward head position stresses your neck. Rounded shoulders tighten your chest. Hip flexors shorten from sitting. Your spine loses its natural curves. Stress accumulates in muscles, creating chronic tension that no amount of stretching seems to resolve. Simultaneously, work stress compounds physical stress. Mental tension from deadlines, meetings, emails, and professional pressure accumulates throughout the day with nowhere to release. By day's end, you're physically tight, mentally exhausted, emotionally drained. Sleep becomes difficult because your body remains in tension mode. You wake unrefreshed, and the cycle repeats. Yoga addresses both dimensions of stress: the physical m...
