Nearly 5 months in to working from home and many of us are feeling the strain of our home office set-ups and a more sedentary working day. Drawing on our 10 years experience teaching office yoga, we’re sharing our top 5 desk yoga poses to keep neck niggles, sore shoulders and bothersome backs at bay. Office Yoga Pose …
Life After Lockdown: Continuing to look after our Mental Health
As the UK prepares to lift lockdown restrictions further, Stretching the City’s clinical psychologist and leader of our mental health webinars, Dr Rebecca shares her advice for protecting our mental health as we navigate the months ahead. Praise is certainly in order for all of us who have endured these lengthy, challenging lockdown measures. Us humans have …
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Meet Charlie, our Men’s Mental Health Campaigner & Coach
15-22 June marks Men’s Mental Health Week. Despite suicide being the biggest cause of death for men under 35 and 76% of death by suicides by men, men are still less likely access psychological therapies than women. Lead by Charlie Hoare, a male mental health campaigner and certified coach (who will share his own mental health …
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How to get the most out of your virtual yoga class
Like many business, when lockdown hit we swiftly moved all our workplace wellbeing services online. Unsure how receptive our clients would be to replacing their regular ‘in office’ yoga class with an online alternative, we were overwhelmed (and super impressed) by their dedicated to keeping up their regular classes, albeit via Zoom. With online …
Working parents share their tips for navigating the coronavirus crisis
It’s half-term here in the UK, but for parents who’ve had their little-ones underfoot for the past 10 weeks, this week feels no different than others. Our ‘Finding Balance as a Working Parent’ webinar has helped hundreds of working parents balance the juggle of work + kids + the C-19 crisis. The webinar is …
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5 things we’ve learnt from our Wellbeing Webinars during the Coronavirus Outbreak
Six weeks since transforming their business to a solely (hopefully temporary) virtual one, Stretching the City directors, Katy Chambers & Sally Lovett have now virtually taken part in over a hundred of their client’s wellbeing webinars. Here they share some of their key learnings. Rituals and Routine are key. Katy: In our ‘Wellbeing + …
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My Wellbeing tips for Working from Home
As a seasoned working-from-homer, Stretching the City founder, Sally Lovett shares her tips for keeping well whilst working from home. Like the rest of the world, here in London we’re in the grip of the Corona virus crisis and all adapting to a ‘new normal’ way of working. For many of our clients, a …
Taking Time to Talk
To mark Time to Talk day, we asked some of the Stretching the City team how they talk about their mental health and encourage others to open up. “Writing is one of the tools I use to talk about my mental health. It gives me the opportunity to reflect on how I’m feeling, to share that …
Alleviating Aches & Pains with Office Pilates
According to the CIPD Health and Well-being at Work Survey 2018, work-related musculoskeletal problems (such as bad backs, muscle strains, carpal tunnel syndrome etc) account for 50% of long-term absence. Whilst some work-related injuries are unavoidable, it’s no secret that sitting at a desk for prolonged periods (especially sitting with a poor posture) can commonly lead …