Many of you know I’m a nerd at heart. I love learning, testing, and turning ideas into practical systems. Ever since my first yoga teacher training, I’ve been obsessed with one question: How can yoga meaningfully improve the modern workplace? After years in Management, Leadership, and Human Resources, I believe now more than ever we need to humanize work, not with perks, but with principles and practices that change how decisions get made.

I’m excited to share that my proposal was accepted for the Yoga & Neuroscience Community Showcase (online, November 10 – 16). It’s the very beginning of something I hope to build upon and make reality.

Register & share: https://communityshowcase2025.neuroyoganyc.com/?ac=RahVZz3s (replays included)

The Core Idea (and Why It Matters)

We face recurring dysfunctions: burnout, inequities, disengagement, moral drift. Too often, compliance-only lenses miss culture, ethics, and human performance.

My proposal reframes yoga as a foundation for policy, practice, and culture:

• Ethics (Yamas/Niyamas) → Policy & leadership.
  • Ahimsa (non-harm): do no harm in policy, practice, or silence, equity and psychological safety.
  • Satya (truth): transparency in communication, feedback, and pay.
  • Aparigraha (non-hoarding): fair resource allocation and reward design.
• Micro-practices (asana, breathwork, meditation, nidra) → Physiology.
  • Desk-friendly mobility for physical health, breathwork for stress regulation, meditation and short yoga nidra for focus/sleep.

May aim in one sentence: Reframe yoga as a foundational operating system, not a perk; strengthen ethics, prevent harm, and measurably improve performance and culture.

What I’ll Share in My 10–15 Minute Talk

• A practical framework mapping yogic ethics to HR policy, leadership behaviors, and team rituals.
• Evidence snapshots (what the literature suggests about the body, stress, cognition, ethics, and engagement).
• Program structure (duration, dosage of yoga, etc.) that any business can implement: on-site, hybrid, or remote.
• Measurement & ROI using validated tools and HRIS data (see below).
• Clear “what to reuse”: policy audit checklist, manager playbook, and micro-practice library.

How Success Will Be Measured (Scientist/Practitioner Friendly)

• Engagement: UWES (vigor, dedication, absorption)
• Burnout: MBI (exhaustion, cynicism, efficacy)
• Productivity/ROI: WPAI (absenteeism, presenteeism, overall work impairment)
• Sleep/Recovery: PSQI (global sleep quality)
• Ethics & Prosocial Behavior: SINS (Self-reported Inappropriate Negotiation Strategies—likelihood of unethical tactics ↓) and OCB-C (organizational citizenship behaviors ↑)
• HRIS: absence, turnover, and MSK-related claims trends
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Cadence: Baseline (T0) → Week 8 (T1) → 90-day follow-up (T2). For executives, we’ll translate improvements into reclaimed hours, reduced absence/claims, retention lift, and other compelling metrics that drive productivity, profitability, etc. 

Predicted Outcomes

• Short-term (0–8 weeks): better sleep and regulation (PSQI), preliminary decrease in burnout (MBI-Exhaustion), increase in engagement (UWES), more interest in helping (OCB-C), lower willingness to use questionable tactics (SINS).
• Mid-term (3–6 months): less absenteeism (WPAI), fewer physical (MSK)-related absences, improved psychological safety.
• Long-term (6–12 months): stronger retention, lower health/MSK claims, more values-aligned leadership.

Who This Is For (Population & Setting)

Any business operation: on-site, hybrid, or remote. The program is chair/desk-friendly, captioned, accessible, secular, and trauma-informed, and designed for all employees, with tailored tracks for HR, people managers, and individual contributors. Participation is opt-in, never coercive; privacy is protected (aggregate, de-identified reporting only).

How You Can Help

• Join the event (and bring a friend):

https://communityshowcase2025.neuroyoganyc.com/?ac=RahVZz3s

• Share feedback: After the talk, tell me what would make this framework more usable in your organization!
• Collaborate: I’m seeking feedback to improve upon my initial idea. Your context and personal experience is useful!
• Introduce me: If you know a neuroscientist, organizational psychologist, or HR analytics leader who’d be interested, I’d love an intro.

A 60-Second Practice to Try Today

• Box breath (4-4-4-4): Inhale 4, hold 4, exhale 4, hold 4. Repeat for two minutes. 
• Use it to open a meeting, reset after conflict, or prepare for a hard decision. Small practices when repeated can shift culture.

Thanks for cheering me on at the start of this journey. I’m excited to learn with you, and to build workplaces that are healthier, more ethical, and sustainably high-performing.