September is the National Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Month and it seems appropriate to take a closer look today at this so-called rare disease, which affects one in 50,000 people.
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The key to a good night’s sleep
There’s nothing like getting a good night’s sleep to wake up feeling refreshed! Quality sleep translates into a plethora of benefits. On the other end of the spectrum, sleep deficiency can lead to depression, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart failure and worse. Therefore, it’s important to never, ever underestimate the importance of quality sleep and the effect it has on daily life.
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Acroyoga, to what purpose?
What are the benefits of practicing acroyoga? That is a question that keeps getting asked! This relatively unknown sport resembles acrobatics, practiced according to the fundamental principles of traditional yoga. Here are three spiritual benefits and three physical advantages of acroyoga.
Enjoying Fresh Air
Summer is the perfect timing to bring our indoor activities outside! It is also a good moment to learn about new activities either made unavailable or unappealing by winter. Here are some of them:
Jacobson’s Relaxation technique
Progressive relaxation also known as Jacobson’s relaxation technique includes tensing muscle groups followed by relaxation of each group which has various health benefits on the response to stress.
Introduction to Arthritis
September is the national month for arthritis. Did you know that this condition is the most prevalent in Canada and one of the highest causes for long lasting invalidity in the country? More precisely, it’s one in every five person that must deal with it, which equals to around six million Canadians. 10% of those are younger than 65 years old.
Olympe’s Mental Health Conference
Through the year, employees and managers at Olympe thought a lot about behavior changes in businesses and now we wish to share the information that we gathered with businesses with our new conference on mental health. We take dive into different themes like how to identify stressful elements which deepens the resilience to organizational changes. This conference presents means to address behavioral changes in simple, jargon-free way inspired by theoretical models, management and psychology concepts otherwise difficult to obtain.
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Take part in the Enterprise Challenge!
With teleworking, colleagues have fewer chances to interact and having friendly chit-chat. Communications are frequently focus essentially on the job and professional relations can also take a hit. This phenomenon can lower your team engagement toward the company.
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4 ways to decrease obesity stigmatization
According to the World Health Organization, obesity is when the body mass index (BMI) is beyond 30. It is a chronic disease with multiple sources: environmental, metabolic, cultural, educational, psychological and many others. Even if this information is known, the public and the medias are frequently downplaying its complexity to a lack of physical activity and bad food habits.
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Health and well-being in remote work: Yes please!
In the past year, most of businesses saw their employees exiled from the office and started working from home. Slowly, this new routine took the place of the normal office day for better or worse.