Chair Yoga with a view at the new home of AXA Northern Ireland

We're excited to announce the continuation of our long-standing partnership with the Education Authority Northern Ireland for three years now, Fitness Belfast has been proud to provide their staff with a comprehensive online Yoga Fundamentals programme as part of their commitment to employee well-being.

“Working from home or the office - which one is better for you? Both set-ups present positives and negatives. What remains crucially important, however, is movement during the week.” - thrilled to have contributed to this Health & Wellbeing article in the Belfast Telegraph

Absolutely bowled over yesterday to get the news that we’ve made the shortlist in FIVE categories at the upcoming Northern Ireland Health & Fitness Awards 2023! 😳

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 :)

It’s been a busy but super engaging Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 for us here at Fitness Belfast, and on Thursday, we were thrilled to host ‘taster’ sessions for our popular Tailored Wellness at Work Yoga Fundamentals, and Kickass Bootcamp programmes on-site at Andor Technology in Belfast.

Big thank you to the team at Abacus Talent Group for joining me at the Fitness Belfast Studio for a Yoga For Positive Mental Health workshop this week.⁣ This fun & educational workshop combines foundational yoga postures with calming breathing techniques that help reduce stress & anxiety, and help promote positive mental health.⁣

I’ve been lucky enough to work with Education Authority Northern Ireland - EANI - since late 2020, and I’m delighted that we’re kicking off 2023 together with two brand new programmes: Chair Yoga for Desk Workers, and Yoga for Positive Mental Health.

A big thank you to Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke for inviting me to speak and host an interactive hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-do-care chair based yoga & movement session session, as part of last weeks Recognition Event for local workplaces involved in the Work Well Live Well programme at The Rabbit Hotel.

Workplaces from across Northern Ireland – including NI Blood Transfusion Service, Ulster GAA, Rathcoole Primary School, Harvey Group and Orchardville – came together for the event on 7 December 2022 to celebrate their commitment to improving employee health and wellbeing.

We recently had the pleasure of helping the team at AXA Northern Ireland settle into their incredible new surroundings at The Ewart on Bedford Street, with a morning chair yoga/movement session.

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.