Paul Chinn/The Chronicleīut the practices have been growing in popularity in small offices with more modest accommodations as businesses move away from encouraging employees to go to the gym or a yoga studio on their lunch breaks and, instead, offer in-house options. Laurie Ou takes a break from work to attend a yoga class for employees at offices on Townsend Street in San Francisco, Calif. Yoga and meditation classes have become a staple on the sprawling campuses of companies like Google and Facebook, which offer any number of fitness, dance and aerobics classes to their tens of thousands of employees. “We’re not talking hours and hours of everyone’s day we’re talking two hours a week.” “It’s honestly no different than providing a discounted gym membership - it’s basic well-being, and if you can bring it to folks during the day rather than leaving it up to them to go out and find, why wouldn’t you?” said Janetta Wood, vice president of people at, a Utah company whose San Francisco employees are offered yoga classes, guided meditation and on-site massage. And when class is over, everyone in the room will return to their desks. None of that “woo woo” stuff that instructor Kim Sin said can intimidate some. For one, it takes place in a small conference room on the eighth floor of a San Francisco office building. A moment meant to be grounding and calm.īut this class is not like most. The class ends as all yoga classes do: with a position known as savasana. Paul Chinn/The Chronicle Show More Show Less Paul Chinn/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of3 Chad Stose (left) leads a meditation session for employees of in a conference room at the company's office in San Francisco, Calif.
Paul Chinn/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of3 Chad Stose (center) leads a meditation session for employees of in the company's offices in San Francisco, Calif. 1 of3 Yoga instructor Kim Sin (left) leads a class for employees in a conference room at on Townsend Street in San Francisco, Calif.
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