Yoga: A Corporate Benefit for a Better Work-Life Balance

Not only do we have quite a few yoga enthusiasts among our employees, but free in-house yoga lessons are also among the benefits we offer to the InterNations Team in Munich. They have been a fixture for more than five years now, taking place on Wednesday night right after work. When Feel Good Manager Denise joined InterNations in her newly created role back in 2014, she wasn’t just put in charge of making sure that our local office ran smoothly. It also fell to her to conceptualize some perks that our team members would appreciate. Yoga was featured on this list from the very beginning.

More and more companies are now offering yoga as a corporate benefit.

Denise herself had been practicing yoga on and off since she was about 18, but it was more than her personal passion that prompted her to suggest it as a potential benefit to our founders and co-CEOs. Before her job at InterNations, she used to work at a social startup that ran a mentoring program for high-school students and that provided weekly yoga lessons in the office. Having a yoga teacher come to the office in the morning saved her and her colleagues a lot of time; the convenience made quite a difference to them.

Yoga at home is different. As someone who loves going into the yoga studio, moving my practice home was difficult at first. I missed the community of fellow yogis and yoga teachers practicing beside me and the ability to focus inward and tune everyt