From being temporarily blind to giving up her six-figure income, this yogi is taking yoga to a corporate level
By Morgan Thanarojpradit
By Morgan Thanarojpradit
WHAT used to be one of the most expensive and disregarded exercise classes, yoga has become a common and popular forms of exercise around the world. It is believed to have a variety of health benefits, for both the body as well as the mind as Voravarai Varikarn found out.
Armed to the teeth with self-confidence and ambition, she rose to a high-level position earning six-figures income in a short period of time. Not immune to the office syndrome and stress from work, she was plagued with periodic but crippling headaches.
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With her health deteriorating, she became a frequent visitor to various different hospitals and clinics hoping someone would be able to correctly diagnosed her illness and provide the right remedy to cure it permanently. Doctors were puzzled as to the cause of the illness so they diagnosed and treated the symptoms rather than the root of the matter, until the day she lost her eyesight.
Finally diagnosed with an Optic Papillitis – an inflammation of the optic nerve – she went into a depression and lost all hope. However, with the right treatment, her eyesight slowly started to return. It was over four agonising months before she could get back to work again. But the ordeal was not over since the symptoms could return at any time, she began looking for any cure possible to keep it from coming back.
During this time was when she was invited to a yoga class by her close friend and she decided to give it another try. It was different because this time, the yogi’s words struck a chord with her and in that moment she decided to dedicate her energy and time to yoga and do whatever it takes to become an instructor herself.
Her friends and colleagues laughed at the idea. She couldn’t even walk without getting dizzy or stand still on one leg. But she was determined and so she started on her journey. With every spare minute she had, whether it was during the day or at night, she would practice and study everything yoga. She attended yoga classes every day, twice a day even if she had to wake up at 4.30am to get to class in the morning. Finally, after a full year of never slacking off on yoga while holding a full-time job, she became a qualified yoga instructor.
Today, she is one of the more common names in the yoga practitioners’ circle with almost 9 years of yoga teaching under her belt, and her ambition hasn’t faded. The next step in her journey is to bring simple yoga exercises into the corporate world. Her plan is to help improve the daily lives of office workers for better health and performance. Yoga doesn’t have to be hard, it doesn’t even have to be done in a studio or in a group and it isn’t all about being able to achieve hard-to-do asanas or poses. Corporate yoga aims to insert selected yet simple yoga exercises into the daily routine. These simple poses will help recharge and refresh the practitioners during the day’s work. The routine can be done in the office and will only take a few minutes to complete.
This programme is not offering organisations a discount group’s price for yoga studio time, but it will offer a self-sufficient health and well-being programme that anyone can use and apply at work for better physical and mental health with long-term results in tow.
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Finally diagnosed with an Optic Papillitis – an inflammation of the optic nerve – she went into a depression and lost all hope. However, with the right treatment, her eyesight slowly started to return. It was over four agonising months before she could get back to work again. But the ordeal was not over since the symptoms could return at any time, she began looking for any cure possible to keep it from coming back.
During this time was when she was invited to a yoga class by her close friend and she decided to give it another try. It was different because this time, the yogi’s words struck a chord with her and in that moment she decided to dedicate her energy and time to yoga and do whatever it takes to become an instructor herself.
Her friends and colleagues laughed at the idea. She couldn’t even walk without getting dizzy or stand still on one leg. But she was determined and so she started on her journey. With every spare minute she had, whether it was during the day or at night, she would practice and study everything yoga. She attended yoga classes every day, twice a day even if she had to wake up at 4.30am to get to class in the morning. Finally, after a full year of never slacking off on yoga while holding a full-time job, she became a qualified yoga instructor.
Today, she is one of the more common names in the yoga practitioners’ circle with almost 9 years of yoga teaching under her belt, and her ambition hasn’t faded. The next step in her journey is to bring simple yoga exercises into the corporate world. Her plan is to help improve the daily lives of office workers for better health and performance. Yoga doesn’t have to be hard, it doesn’t even have to be done in a studio or in a group and it isn’t all about being able to achieve hard-to-do asanas or poses. Corporate yoga aims to insert selected yet simple yoga exercises into the daily routine. These simple poses will help recharge and refresh the practitioners during the day’s work. The routine can be done in the office and will only take a few minutes to complete.
This programme is not offering organisations a discount group’s price for yoga studio time, but it will offer a self-sufficient health and well-being programme that anyone can use and apply at work for better physical and mental health with long-term results in tow.
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