Residential Yoga Program Helps Reduce Front-Line Worker Stress, Study Finds

A residential yoga program in Massachusetts is teaching “front-line” employees, including first responders, how to better manage stress, even as stress-related claims are figuring more prominently in workers’ compensation. The program, from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, is the subject of a research study published in this month’s edition of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, or JOEM. The study included 55 workers in occupations such as corrections, education, health care or human services who participated in Kripalu’s five-day...