Stoelmassage. Amsterdam offers breathwork & mindfulness at work and private (online and offline) in Amsterdam in corporation with The MindBody Lab & Breathwork.Amstedam in the form of Breathwork & Mindfulness Meditation.
In the Breathwork & Mindfulness Meditation classes and workshops you learn and experience how physical and emotional tensions can be released into a calm focus, and creative energy with short guided breathwork, movement, and meditation/mindfulness exercises.
These transformational exercises come from authentic Indian and Tibetan Yoga & Pranayama (breathwork) and science/evidence-based breathwork and mindfulness and are highly effective and efficient.
- The direct effect on energy and focus of a 3-5 minute breathwork exercise can be similar in experience han a 30 minute Wim Hof Method (or similar breathing ) session.
- The direct effect on tension release of 3-5 minute breathwork with a 3-5 minute movement exercise can be similar in experience han a 20 minute chairmassage.
- The direct effect on tension release of 3 minute breathwork with a 5 minute mindfulness meditation exercise can be similar in experience han a 20 minute meditation session.
You don’t need a yoga outfit or mat though. Just join from the chair behind your computer.
To back up the effectiveness, a short explanation of how they work will be given.
So you’ll learn a few nice fun facts about breath and your own biology too!
Why practice Breathwork & Mindfulness Meditation.
Long-lasting stress, without periods of healthy rest and recovery, gradually cause mental problems. These include a lowered immune system, anxiety, loss of energy, insomnia, burnout, and depression. Research has shown that stress can lead to mental health problems and burnout.
Furthermore, sitting long hours without movement at work can cause serious health risks, a Harvard study shows.
To deal with stress and lack of movement at work, we might do yoga, meditation, and sports once or twice a week, before or after work or during the weekend. However, we hardly practice mindfulness or movement during our hours at work, where we actually need it the most.
This is where the Breathwork & Mindfulness Meditation offers a solution. It combines easy, time-efficient, and highly effective breathwork and mindfulness meditation excercises with light physical exercise/movements which release the typical “office stress” areas (neck, shoulders, and back). It’s a guided group session between 30-90 minutes. Practicing this meditation mid-day will leave you with its benefits for the rest of your workday.
What are the benefits of Breathwork & Mindfulness Meditation ?
It helps to:
- identify stress more quickly and subsequently do something about it;
- become more connected to your body;
- have more energy;
- have more focus, be more creative and perform better;
- release stress and “stuck” energy via highly effective time efficient, easy, practical, playful meditation, movement and exercises.
What is Breathwork?
Definition of breath work
What is Mindfulness Meditation?
Mindfulness simply means paying attention to the moment-to-moment experience. It is all about awareness and living in the present moment.
Mindfulness – being aware – is a powerful resource for the functioning of people and teams at work.
Breathwork & Mindfulness Meditation workhops.
- 2 Hour workshop – Interactive workshop in which employees learn about the importance of relaxation and breathing and also experience for themselves what real relaxation does to them.
On location or online, from 6 people
From €55,- per person excluding VAT.
introduction “taster ” events possible:
- 30 minute mini-workshop (only online via Google Meet, Teams etc.) pricing on request via TheMindBodyLab.
- 1 hour (online and for large groups also offline) for groups.
For more information about the programs and events please use the contact form at TheMindBodyLab or via: ivar@themindbodylab.nl .
The coach for the workshops and events is Ivar van Hoorn, he’s an allround stress specialist: he has worked as a chairmassage therapist at companies like Microsoft, Booking.com and also TQ, He’s given in-company mindfulness coaching at organizations like Gemeente Amsterdam, Salonized, Egon Zender and PR.CO.
After a decade of working in the corporate film industry during the week and partying a little too much on the weekend, he got a burn-out and a depression. In his quest for healing he explored all kinds meditation, yoga and other movement practices. From 2008 to 2010 he lived , worked as a filmmaker, studied and practiced in a Buddhist Community in Southern France. It is his goal and passion to bring breathwork, movement & mindfulness into the workplace in an effective, efficient, accessible, humorous way.
He believes at the workplace there is the most potential to deal with stress via the integration of meditation and movement exercises, since it is the place where we generally spent most of our time.
His latest project is The MindBody Lab, which combines meditation and movement “stress hacks” from the most effective, efficient and accessible sources.
Clients of the past, present & future :
Salonized, Egon Zehnder, Fusiref (TATA Steel), Gemeente Amsterdam, PR.CO, OmnicomPRgroup, TQ.