PTI, via NewKerala.com, India
Mar. 3, 2005
www.newkerala.com

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ReligionNewsBlog.com • Item 10454 • Posted: Thursday March 3, 2005  

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Washington, Mar 3 : More and more US companies are paying for yoga and meditation classes for their employees to relieve stress and save on health costs.

An analysis of results by various firms shows that a “wellness programme”, including yoga, meditation, massages, reflexology and other calming activities produces a return of USD 6.15 dollars for every dollar invested over a six-year period for Coors Brewing Co; USD 5.80 for office furniture maker Steelcase Inc., USD 5.52 for Equitable, and USD 3.40 for Travelers Corp., now part of Citigroup, The Washington Post reported.

Yoga teachers are prospering too, said The Post, adding four years ago, when Karin Wiedemann founded Urban Yoga Studio here to bring the benefits of yoga to corporate offices, she had a staff of one — herself. Now she has contracts with five yoga instructors who teach employees at several corporate business clients as well as the National Park Service and the Service Employees International Union. She charges USD 200 an hour for her services.

A real estate developer, Jeffrey Abramson, a longtime practitioner of transcendental meditation, added meditation classes to the company’s health benefits list because he thought it was a good way to contain stress-related ailments and health care costs. “The missing key to any health care system,” he said, “is prevention.” Abramson says he can tell the difference between employees who meditate and those who don’t. The meditators “seem brighter, fresher.” “People need tools to enable them to become more successful without negative ramifications,” he said.

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