For Organisations
Corporate and workplace yoga for staff teams in Exeter and Devon
Clinically-informed yoga brought to your workplace — designed by an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist who is also an Experienced Yoga Teacher, and delivered in a way that works for complete beginners as much as for regular practitioners.
What does this involve?
Clinically-informed yoga can be brought to your organisation or business. This might be with small group activities, events, and courses in your workplace for you and your colleagues, to the departments in your organisation, for the staff groups you manage, or for the client groups you support.
Bespoke yoga for mental health and wellbeing programmes have been developed with support organisations in mind. The clinically-informed yoga workshops and programmes help to enhance the wellbeing of the staff delivering care to others and the people in roles that involve people management. These yoga programmes contribute to healthy teams that work well together and staff who feel able to manage the demands in their jobs skilfully and mindfully.
Specialised yoga programmes have been created for client groups and the people accessing support services. Trauma-informed yoga and evidence-based psychology-enhanced yoga is available in groups, individually, and online to clients receiving support from organisations and charities. The yoga for mental health programmes form a crucial part of the recovery journey in that they support someone to feel safe again as they heal from trauma and resourcefully manage the body and mind manifestations of psychological and emotional distress.
This is one half of BAM Therapy's work with organisations. It sits alongside wellbeing and resilience for organisations — staff wellbeing workshops and talks, resilience and burnout sessions, and reflective practice for teams — and the two are regularly combined into a single programme.
For HR teams and people managers
If you're the person arranging this
Wellbeing initiatives only work when people actually feel comfortable taking part. Every session is designed by a Clinical Psychologist with NHS experience since 2009, and delivered in a trauma-informed way — nobody is put on the spot, everything is invitational, and complete beginners are genuinely welcome.
Practically: sessions can run in your own building, at a venue you use, or online. They fit lunchtimes, the start or end of the working day, away days, wellbeing weeks, and blocks that run across a term or a quarter. Chair-based and mat-free options mean an ordinary meeting room can work if you don't have a hall.
Programmes are quoted per programme rather than per head, so you'll know the cost before committing — and you'll deal with Kayleigh directly throughout, from the first email to the final session.
If it would help to share this with colleagues or take it to a budget conversation, there is a short brochure on trauma-informed yoga for organisations as a PDF.
Case studies
Some of the organisations Kayleigh has worked with
University of Exeter
BAM Therapy has delivered clinically-informed yoga for staff groups across various departments at the University of Exeter, as well as sessions for student groups and societies. Each partnership is shaped collaboratively around the needs of the group — giving busy staff and students a genuinely restorative pause.
John Lewis, Exeter
Staff at the Exeter John Lewis store have taken part in clinically-informed yoga as part of their workplace wellbeing. Retail work is demanding on body and mind, and these sessions bring accessible, restorative movement to the working day.
These are two of a number of organisations Kayleigh has partnered with — the full list is below.
Partnerships
Previous and ongoing partnerships include:
- NHS primary care and general practice services
- NHS secondary care mental health teams
- Staff groups at various departments at the University of Exeter
- Local staff at the John Lewis store
- Staff groups working at CoLab, Exeter
- Staff teams working in local law firms and legal settings
- For clients accessing support from Devon Rape Crisis
- For student groups and societies at the University of Exeter
These partnerships are formed collaboratively and have included weekly yoga classes, one-off workshops and sessions, supporting team away day activities, and 6-week and 12-week blocks of sessions.
Questions
Common questions about workplace yoga
- Do our staff need to be fit or flexible?
- No. Sessions are accessible to every body and every level of experience, with options offered for every posture. Nobody is corrected in front of others, and nobody is asked to do anything they don't want to do — people are invited to move in ways that suit their body on the day.
- What space do we need?
- Whatever you have is workable — the session is shaped around your space rather than the other way round. A room where each person has space for a mat, with furniture that can be moved aside, gives the widest choice of formats. An ordinary meeting room suits chair-based and standing practice. A hall, a staff room, a quiet corner of an office, or online from wherever people are all work too. Importantly, mats are not needed for trauma-informed yoga: much of it is practised seated or standing, and for many people that feels considerably safer than lying on the floor. Tell Kayleigh what the space looks like and you'll get an honest view on the best format for it.
- Do people need to change clothes?
- Not for chair-based or gentler sessions, which are designed to work in normal work clothing. For more active sessions, comfortable clothing helps — and knowing which format you're booking makes this easy to communicate in advance.
- What makes this different from booking a local yoga teacher?
- The sessions are designed and delivered by a Clinical Psychologist who is also an Experienced Yoga Teacher and an Accredited Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher. That means the psychology is built into the session rather than added on top — and that groups including people who are struggling are held with proper clinical understanding.
- How long do sessions run, and how often?
- Common patterns are a 45 to 60 minute lunchtime session, a longer workshop as part of an away day or wellbeing week, or a weekly class across a 6-week or 12-week block. Blocks tend to have the biggest effect, because people build a practice rather than trying one.
- Can this run for the people we support, not just our staff?
- Yes. Trauma-informed and psychology-enhanced yoga programmes have been delivered for client groups accessing support from organisations and charities, in groups, individually and online — see trauma-informed yoga for how that approach works.
- How much does it cost?
- Organisational yoga is quoted per programme rather than per person, based on format, number of sessions, group size and location. See the fees page for how pricing works across all services, or get in touch for a written quote.
Get in touch
Sound interesting? Let's connect.
Tell Kayleigh about your team and what you're hoping for, and you'll get an honest recommendation and a clear quote — with no obligation.