Desk Yoga & 5 top tips for Wellness at Work: Fitness Belfast at Workplace Wellbeing LIVE
Last Tuesday morning we partnered with Vital Nutrition for Workplace Wellbeing LIVE at the Mac, Belfast. An event to showcase a full spectrum of workplace wellbeing providers, each highlighting the importance of nutrition, stress reduction, diversity, inclusion, and movement in employee wellbeing. And breakfast!
We were honoured to join the incredible line up of speakers from Diversity Mark, Vitalis Health, as well as Jane from Vital Nutrition, and showcase stands from NICHS, Linwoods and Inspire Wellbeing.
We shared our “5 Top Tips to get your team movin’, groovin’ & feeling great”, and then put them into practice with some grooving in the room – a fun, short chair yoga & movement workshop, hopefully highlighting to all of the attendees how we can all feel so much better if we just move a little more.
Everyone threw themselves in, and there were even some laughs, so I think it worked 😊🕺
And we take those laughs, and Workplace Wellness seriously, with our top tips and moves are based on our nearly 10 years of experience bringing workplace wellbeing to awesome forward thinking companies like FinTrU, Education Authority (Northern Ireland), Belfast Metropolitan College, Titanic Belfast and more. You can find our more on the blog here or below :)
A huge thank you to Jane, Emma & the rest of the Vital Nutrition gang for having me join this really awesome Tuesday morning event!
Here’s to next time! 🎉
Gary
Fitness Belfast Tailored Wellness at Work
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This year, we’re thrilled to have been named a finalist in the following five categories:
Best Corporate Wellness Programme – Fitness Belfast Wellness at Work
Gym of the Year – Fitness Belfast Studio
Male Personal Trainer of the Year – Gary Milligan
Online Personal Trainer of the Year – Gary Milligan
Best use of Digital Technology
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is a statutory body with over 3000 employees, that provides, maintains, and manages over 160,000 social housing homes and for over 250,000 people all over NI. They offer a great package of financial, health, and work/life balance benefits to their team - even an Award Winning Online Yoga programme :)
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Last Tuesday morning we partnered with Vital Nutrition for Workplace Wellbeing LIVE at the Mac, Belfast. An event to showcase a full spectrum of workplace wellbeing providers, each highlighting the importance of nutrition, stress reduction, diversity, inclusion, and movement in employee wellbeing. And breakfast!
We were honoured to join the incredible line up of speakers from Diversity Mark, Vitalis Health, as well as Jane from Vital Nutrition, and showcase stands from NICHS, Linwoods and Inspire Wellbeing, sharing our “5 Top Tips to get your team movin’, groovin’ & feeling great”, and then putting them into practice with some grooving in the room – a fun, short chair yoga & movement workshop.
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Thrilled to be joining the awesome Jane McClenaghan of Vital Nutrition for this first ever Workplace Wellbeing LIVE showcase event. Designed for those who work in HR, or are you on your workplace's health and wellbeing committee, join us in the The Mac, Belfast, 8:30am - 11am Tuesday 18th October 2022.
Absolutely bowled over on Saturday with the news that we’ve made the shortlist in SIX categories at the upcoming Northern Ireland Health & Fitness Awards 2022! 😳
Best Small Studio Gym – Fitness Belfast Studio
Fitness Class of the Year – Kickass Bootcamp
Male Personal Trainer of the Year – Gary Milligan
Yoga Class of the Year – Yoga for Beginners
Covid Champion / Lockdown Legend of the Year
Online Personal Trainer / Coach of the Year
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