Tenthgate Yoga & Dance

How can your company achieve both optimum productivity and employee job-satisfaction?

• How high are your levels of employee absenteeism, attrition, and turnover?

• How successful is your company at staff-retention?

• How healthy is your workforce and are you spending exorbitant amounts on healthcare and insurance?

• Do you look forward to going to work and do you leave drained, exhausted, and stressed out?

Recent studies have shown that stress alone is estimated to cost US industry $300 billion annually "as assessed by absenteeism, diminished productivity, employee turnover, direct medical, legal, and insurance fees, and 60-80% of industrial accidents," according to Dr. Paul Rosch, President of the American Institute of Stress. "That's five or ten times the net profits of all Fortune 500 companies combined. It's very expensive."

A recent article in the Guardian newspaper (February 20th, 2007) provided the following statistics for the UK. Almost 13 million days a year are taken off sick from work as a result of stress, according to the charity Mind. Stress costs the British economy almost £1 for every £10 generated, leading to increased anxiety, depression, and mental distress. Thirty percent of employees take sick leave with mental distress in any given year, yet less than ten percent receives any kind of treatment or psychological counseling, according to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Doctors are forced to fall back on antidepressants, which the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has warned are being over-prescribed.

Another report by the European Agency for Safety and Health found that work-related stress is an increasing health and safety issue for Europe's work-force. "It affects about 41 million workers in the EU - 28% of the work-force - and causes millions of lost work days each year," warns Brian Howard, Chief Exexcutive of the MHIA.

From advertising and the media to cell-phones, blackberries, i-pods and the Internet, we are experiencing the results of an increasingly sophisticated barrage of competing information delivery systems. In order to successfully filter and absorb this overload and to become less reactive, angry, and judgemental in our personal and professional relationships, we must train ourselves to a higher degree of self-awareness. If we fail to make time for a systematic practice of relaxation and renewal in this age of increasing pressure and stress, we will eventually collapse under the strain of so many external stimuli.

"We live in a very attention-deficit culture, with little time to really focus on any one thing," says Susan Smalley, founder and director of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behaviour. "But these practices of mindful awareness, or mindfulness, really do open up time and give a person the perception and feeling that they have more time" (Vital Signs, UCLA Healthcare, #36, Spring 2007).

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Tenthgate Yoga & Dance provides practical tools and techniques for corporate stress relief.  We design and implement programs that enable both management and employees to expand their skills and abilities to their greatest potential. They provide an holistic approach, accessible to everyone, to physical, mental, and emotional problems. They enhance our daily performance, whether in or outside the workplace, by utilizing a 5,000 year-old technology to remedy the imbalances within us. Instead of simply treating the symptoms, they work at the level of prevention and maintenance.

These programs, when diligently implemented, have successfully assisted hundred of diverse individuals to lead more conscious, self-aware, pain-free, and therefore more productive lives - from the executive staff and employees of small, independent businesses to large corporations, rehabilitation facilities, 'at risk' youth and senior citizens in assisted living centers.

They utilize the ancient technologies of yoga, meditation, hypnotherapy, guided visualization and reflexology to strengthen our ability to handle physical, mental, and emotional stress, not only increasing productivity, but also reducing health insurance costs, absenteeism, and turnover rates.

They increase physical strength, flexibility and stamina, as well as mental concentration and attention span, by balancing the nervous, respiratory, circulatory, and endocrine systems. When these physical and biological systems are brought into alignment, they start to function more efficiently and the mind is free to focus with one-pointed attention on the tasks at hand. Productivity in the work-place increases and job satisfaction is enhanced exponentially - the more employees that participate, the more rewarding the results!

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CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

"As a direct result of Howard's wonderful programs, our executive staff have experienced a dramatic increase in productivity and sense of well-being. I cannot recommend it highly enough for any business seriously interested in decreasing turnover and absenteeism, as well as reducing the cost of corporate health care." - Richard Arnold, President P&W Enterprises, UK.

"Working with Tenthgate Yoga & Dance has quite simply revolutionized the way we do business, how we interact with our customers, clients, and staff. Our level of job-satisfaction and retention has gone through the roof. Howard's systematic and personal approach provides an invaluable tool for any company that wants to attract and retain an energized and productive group of employees" - Nicholas Hartog, CEO Grand Meadows, Newport Beach.

"We can highly recommend adoption of this program. It has increased productivity and job satisfaction among our employees at all levels. The executive retreat in Costa Rica was especially memorable!" - John Fisher, Business Director, The Rough Guides, UK.

"As a television producer, I can tell you something about pressure. This program worked wonders for morale at Planet 24. My partners Bob Geldoff and Lord Ali both join me in recommending the program to any company interested in decreasing stress in the work-place" - Charles Parsons, co-founder planet 24 and co-producer of 'Survivor.'