A Standing Class
Weekly, biweekly or monthly. Recurring corporate yoga becomes a fixture people plan around rather than an email they miss.
Employee wellness programs
Employee Wellness Programs
Built Around Real Workdays
A workplace wellness program employees will actually use, built around live yoga rather than a platform login. Rooted with Julia works with companies on recurring classes, one-off wellness events, and everything between, in person or online.
This is a yoga-led offering. Julia teaches the sessions herself; the rest of your benefits stack stays where it is.
What it is
A Wellness Program That Is Actually a Class
Most corporate wellness programs are a collection of things employees are invited to do on their own time: an app, a portal, a reimbursement, a newsletter. Participation is usually the problem, and it is rarely because people do not want to feel better.
This is narrower and more concrete. Julia teaches live yoga for your team, on a recurring schedule, as a series, or as a single event, and the programming is built around when your people can realistically show up.
One teacher. Real classes. Nothing to log into.
To be plain about the scope: this is a yoga-led employee wellness offering. It is not insurance, therapy, nutrition counselling, biometric screening or HR consulting, and it is not trying to be.
Possible shapes
Ways a Program Can Be Put Together
Examples rather than packages. Programming is shaped around your team, your calendar and how your people are arranged. Tell Julia what you are working with and she will suggest a shape.
A Short Series
A defined run of employee yoga classes over a few weeks. A sensible way to test appetite before committing to something open-ended.
Wellness Events
One of the corporate wellness activities inside a wellness day, an employee appreciation event, a company gathering or an all-hands week.
Retreat & Offsite Sessions
Movement built into an offsite or company retreat, so there is something restorative between the meetings and the meals.
Why make it recurring
The Second Class Is Where It Starts Working
A one-off class is a nice afternoon. People enjoy it, say so, and go back to their week. Nothing wrong with that; plenty of good programs start exactly there.
What recurring adds is recognition. When the class is always the same day at the same time, employees stop having to decide about it each time, and the people who were too self-conscious to try it in front of colleagues the first time have a second and third chance to quietly show up.
Familiarity is most of what makes a wellness program get used.
It also gives you something concrete to point at when someone asks what the company does for employee wellbeing, which is not nothing.
In person or online
Workplace Yoga, Wherever Your People Are
The same programming runs two ways. Most companies end up using both, depending on the week.
In-Person Workplace Yoga
Julia comes to your team and teaches office yoga classes in the space you already have, across New England.
Corporate yoga classes covers the in-person side in full.
Virtual Team Yoga
Employees join one live class from wherever they are working, taught in real time rather than prerecorded.
See virtual corporate yoga for how a live online session runs.
Who turns up
Yoga for Employees Who Would Not Call It Their Thing
A company-wide invitation reaches a very mixed group. Some people practise weekly. Far more have never been on a mat, and a fair number assume yoga for employees means being the least flexible person in a room full of colleagues.
Those are the people the class has to work for.
Julia teaches every posture with options, so the session gives an experienced employee a real practice without leaving a first-timer behind. Nobody is corrected across the room, and nobody is asked to demonstrate anything.
Anyone working around an injury or a health condition should check with their own clinician first, and it helps if Julia knows in advance rather than mid-class.
Where it fits
If You Are Still Collecting Ideas
Most people arrive at this with a list. Employee wellness ideas get gathered from other companies, from a conference, from whoever asked the question in the first place: walking meetings, a step challenge, a speaker, a subscription, a fruit delivery.
The trouble with most workplace wellness ideas, and with the workplace wellness programs built out of them, is that they are one-off by nature. They happen, they are pleasant, and there is nothing to return to. A live class is one of the few corporate wellness ideas that improves by repeating.
It is a wellness activity for work that survives contact with a calendar.
If you are weighing several workplace wellness activities against each other, our guide to corporate wellness ideas employees will actually join goes through the wider list. Employee wellness activities do not have to be elaborate; they have to be easy to show up to twice.
Who books it
Who Employee Wellness Usually Lands On
HR and People Ops
The people asked to produce a wellness offering, usually alongside everything else.
Employee experience leads
Looking for programming employees will opt into rather than tolerate.
Office managers
Organising the thing that actually has to happen in the room on the day.
Founders and team leads
Small companies without an HR function, wanting something real rather than a perk on a slide.
Distributed companies
Teams whose wellness offering has to work across several places at once.
Larger organisations
Departments or sites running their own programming inside a bigger business.
Getting started
How to Begin
Tell Julia About Your Team
Size, where people are based, and what you have tried before that did or did not land.
Share the Format You Want
In person, virtual or both, and roughly how often you are hoping to run it.
Agree a Shape
Julia will suggest something that fits your calendar, your space and the people likely to come.
Start With One Session
Run a class, see how your team takes to it, and decide about the rest from there.
Taught by Julia
Why Rooted with Julia
Julia Giurleo is an RYT 200 trained yoga teacher, registered with Yoga Alliance, who works directly with every group she teaches.
Her classes are personal rather than scripted. She watches the room, adjusts the pace, and creates an environment where people can take part without feeling watched or assessed.
For a recurring workplace program that matters more than it would for a one-off, because the same people come back. You can learn more about Julia and how she came to teach this way.
- One teacher, every sessionThe person you email is the person who teaches. Your team gets to know one teacher rather than a rota.
- Built for who actually comesProgramming is planned around your team’s experience levels, not around a standard class format.
- Start small, no platformBegin with a single class. There is nothing to procure, license or roll out first.
- In person or live onlineIn-person classes across New England, and live virtual sessions for teams that are not in one building.
Pricing
Program Pricing
Pricing depends on the size of the group, where your team is, the length of each session, how often the programming runs, and whether it is in person or virtual.
A single class, a short series and an ongoing program can all be arranged.
Send over a few details about your team and Julia can recommend a shape and provide pricing for it.
Request Program Pricing
Ready when you are
Create a Rhythm Your Team Can Use
Whether you are starting with one class or planning something for the year, the programming is built around your people, your calendar and the space you have.
Employee wellness FAQs
The usual questions.
Broadly, it is whatever a company puts in place to support employee wellbeing. In practice the term covers everything from insurance benefits to an app subscription. What Rooted with Julia offers is the live, in-the-room part of that: yoga taught for your team on a schedule that suits it.
Live yoga classes taught by Julia, in person or online, arranged as a recurring session, a short series or a one-time event. It does not include insurance, therapy, nutrition counselling, biometric screening or HR consulting.
No. It is often easier to say what would work once Julia knows the size of your team, where people are based and how much time you realistically have. An enquiry is not a commitment to anything.
Yes, and many companies do. Running a single session is a sensible way to see how your team takes to it before committing to anything ongoing.
Yes. Sessions can be taught live online for remote and hybrid teams, and virtual and in-person classes can be mixed across a program.
Yes. In-person workplace classes are taught across New England, in offices, meeting rooms, event spaces and retreat venues, provided there is somewhere appropriate for the group to practise.
Yes. Sessions are planned for mixed experience levels, including employees who have never taken a yoga class. Every posture is offered with options.
That is agreed with you rather than set in advance. Weekly, biweekly and monthly are all reasonable starting points, and the right answer usually depends on your team's calendar.
Both small teams and larger groups can be accommodated. For in-person sessions what matters most is the amount of floor space, so mention the room when you enquire.
Yes. Format, frequency, session length and the tone of the classes are all planned around your workplace rather than chosen from a fixed menu.
Pricing depends on group size, location, session length, how often the programming runs, and whether it is in person or virtual. Share a few details about your team and Julia can provide options.
Enquire
Plan your employee wellness program.
The more Julia knows about your team and how often you are hoping to run something, the faster she can suggest a shape and tell you what it would cost. Nothing here is a commitment.