There are so many benefits to fitness and movement for your mind and body and even productivity and wellness in an office environment. At Insight Wellness Works, we know all about workplace wellness programs to help employers attract and retain quality employees and boost employee engagement and productivity in the workplace.
This is a series called Workplace Group Fitness. It is comprised of blogs dedicated to educating employers and businesses about the best fitness and movements programs available in Tampa Bay. Each week in this series, we will cover these different group fitness and movement classes :
- Yoga
- Dance
- Pilates
- Tai Chi & Qigong
- Strength Training and Core Conditioning
- Walking & Running Programs
This is a continuing blog series on Workplace Group Fitness. This blog is about dance.
Dance in the Workplace
Step up and be original in the workplace. Bring in a fun activity you’re your office and watch your employees improve their overall fitness and muscle tone. Insight Wellness Works can bring any type of dance to your worksite, including Aerobic dance, Zumba, Nia, belly dancing, Salsa, Hip Hop, and more! Introducing dance into the workplace can bring more productivity, performance, efficiency, and a better morale.
RAND has research showing that 69% of employers with more than 50 employees offered a wellness program.
Dance makes you smarter. Your brain becomes stronger with the connections we make between various ideas and activities. “Dancing integrates several brain functions at once — kinesthetic, rational, musical, and emotional — further increasing your neural connectivity,” as one Stanford article explains.
Team Building
According to the Harvard Business Review, “Social time turns out to be deeply critical to team performance, often accounting for more than 50% of positive changes in communication patterns.”
Energy and Wellness
Sitting in front of a computer screen or in meetings takes away your energy and slows down the brain. We need to move to get our “feel good” chemicals called endorphins to release. If we feel good physically and mentally, we perform better intellectually and emotionally. Incorporating dance will stimulate your employees’ blood, mind, and ideas flowing, leading to a better quality of work and life.
Health and Fitness
Dance is a low-weight bearing, low-risk activity with varying levels of intensity, which is more appealing to a range of bodies and abilities, especially beginners. Healthy employees also mean lower health costs, ultimately saving your company money.
Creativity
Bringing dance into the workplace will stimulate creativity and expression. Brain synapses ignite, and idea development takes off.
Fun
People enjoy just plain ole’ fun! Imagine if you go to work and get to dance as a group activity. People will enjoy coming to work more when they know its okay to have fun.
Workplace Group Fitness Programs
At Insight Wellness Works, we have a variety of group movement classes for all levels of fitness. Our fitness instructors are CPR-certified, fully-credentialed, and are trained to conduct group fitness classes safely.
Our classes include yoga, dance (everything from salsa to hip-hop), Pilates, strength training, and core conditioning. Classes are offered in 4- to 8-week sessions and can be run year-round. The program can be initiated by an employee or employer and funded by an individual or corporate budget.
If you are interested in finding out how you can incorporate a Workplace Group Fitness Program in your office, Contact us today at 727-742-9137.
Contact
Insight Wellness Works is based in St. Petersburg, Florida, and has been serving employers in Tampa Bay and its surrounding cities since 2010. We have a large team of credentialed wellness professionals offering a variety of workplace wellness services that focus on health promotion and disease prevention. We change lives and transform the culture of health in workplaces. Contact us today at 727-742-9137 to discuss how we can help your business and employees achieve wellness goals.
