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Not all yoga is religion, but there are types of yoga involving chants, mantras etc and invocation of deities. Those are definitely religious.

There are chants invoking Shiva etc. See the common yoga chants here:
https://www.yogajournal.com/yo...

For myself, I work remotely. This let's me take a break to exercise during the day (which in turn helps me stay alert and focused throughout the work day). If you don't have this kind of flexibility at your job, it comes down to what exercises can you do that won't leave you a sweaty mess. For that, I'd recommend yoga you can do at your desk, or standing practice. The latter is great for building lower body strength.

If you don't mind getting sweaty, exercise bands, push ups and fifer scissors/situps, can be great for your upper body, and easy to use/do quietly in a relatively small space.

Whatever you do, don't stand all day. Standing desks just switch out the health problems you get from sitting. Varying what you do is the best tact - if you stand most of the day, find time to sit and rest your legs (and vice versa).

No matter what chair you get, you'll still be tempted, when something is smaller than a movie screen, to get closer to the screen. And then there is still the keyboard and mouse. If you want your back (which includes your neck bones) supported, you need a zero-G workstation chair. That being said, you'll need something to support the monitor and keyboard so that they are adjustable and slightly above horizontal. If $600 is your limit, I dunno what to say. These days you can hardly buy a standard office chair for that amount. Think of it this way: how many hours do you spend in your car? How many will you spend in your workstation chairs? Consider the ratio of money you are willing to spend on each.

For monitor and keyboard stands, checkout the one at Ergotron on the left. It positions the monitor in an infinite number of positions over you so that you never have to hunch forward.

I got a lower back injury at my last job. That got me "favoring" my lower back in terms of support with me ending up making the curve difference in my upper back and neck. The result: after 5 years my upper back and especially my neck was shot pinching nerves going down both arms. On some days I can't type more than a paragraph and have to avoid the computer all together. Other days I can still operate a trackball and read. Doctors say I'll never work in my prior job again. It became critical when I got as manager who insisted on fixed hours (vs. before where I could take breaks in middle of day to do yoga -- and just work later into the night. It was good (essentially healthy) to break work up with a few hours of stretching and strengthening -- might have gone on for many years that way...but it was not to be. Once it's broken it doesn't go back.

Check out your posture now -- if you stand at a wall, with heels at wall, your body should touch at buttocks mid back and back of head. If your head has to tilt up to touch the wall, you have "kyphosis" (rounding of upper back)...the predecessor to hunch back. And it does become permanent in old age, but is reverseable with yoga or other back therapy. If you can place your hand behind your lower back when against the wall, that indicates lordosis (more common in women), but you can have both which means you are more screwed up than average. But again, you can work on both conditions. Studies published in the JAMA showed improvement in carpal tunnel with yoga, but this was with a specialized yoga practice tailored for such. Yoga Journal has an article on treatment for carpal tunnel and 2 articles for kyphosis (hunch back/rounded
shoulders) here and here. Using the site's search engine you can find articles on other problems as well, but a chair alone isn't going to be a cure because chairs, in general, are not designed to promote good posture and certain were never designed to be sat in 8+ hours a day.

No matter what chair you get, you'll still be tempted, when something is smaller than a movie screen, to get closer to the screen. And then there is still the keyboard and mouse. If you want your back (which includes your neck bones) supported, you need a zero-G workstation chair. That being said, you'll need something to support the monitor and keyboard so that they are adjustable and slightly above horizontal. If $600 is your limit, I dunno what to say. These days you can hardly buy a standard office chair for that amount. Think of it this way: how many hours do you spend in your car? How many will you spend in your workstation chairs? Consider the ratio of money you are willing to spend on each.

For monitor and keyboard stands, checkout the one at Ergotron on the left. It positions the monitor in an infinite number of positions over you so that you never have to hunch forward.

I got a lower back injury at my last job. That got me "favoring" my lower back in terms of support with me ending up making the curve difference in my upper back and neck. The result: after 5 years my upper back and especially my neck was shot pinching nerves going down both arms. On some days I can't type more than a paragraph and have to avoid the computer all together. Other days I can still operate a trackball and read. Doctors say I'll never work in my prior job again. It became critical when I got as manager who insisted on fixed hours (vs. before where I could take breaks in middle of day to do yoga -- and just work later into the night. It was good (essentially healthy) to break work up with a few hours of stretching and strengthening -- might have gone on for many years that way...but it was not to be. Once it's broken it doesn't go back.

Check out your posture now -- if you stand at a wall, with heels at wall, your body should touch at buttocks mid back and back of head. If your head has to tilt up to touch the wall, you have "kyphosis" (rounding of upper back)...the predecessor to hunch back. And it does become permanent in old age, but is reverseable with yoga or other back therapy. If you can place your hand behind your lower back when against the wall, that indicates lordosis (more common in women), but you can have both which means you are more screwed up than average. But again, you can work on both conditions. Studies published in the JAMA showed improvement in carpal tunnel with yoga, but this was with a specialized yoga practice tailored for such. Yoga Journal has an article on treatment for carpal tunnel and 2 articles for kyphosis (hunch back/rounded
shoulders) here and here. Using the site's search engine you can find articles on other problems as well, but a chair alone isn't going to be a cure because chairs, in general, are not designed to promote good posture and certain were never designed to be sat in 8+ hours a day.

No matter what chair you get, you'll still be tempted, when something is smaller than a movie screen, to get closer to the screen. And then there is still the keyboard and mouse. If you want your back (which includes your neck bones) supported, you need a zero-G workstation chair. That being said, you'll need something to support the monitor and keyboard so that they are adjustable and slightly above horizontal. If $600 is your limit, I dunno what to say. These days you can hardly buy a standard office chair for that amount. Think of it this way: how many hours do you spend in your car? How many will you spend in your workstation chairs? Consider the ratio of money you are willing to spend on each.

For monitor and keyboard stands, checkout the one at Ergotron on the left. It positions the monitor in an infinite number of positions over you so that you never have to hunch forward.

I got a lower back injury at my last job. That got me "favoring" my lower back in terms of support with me ending up making the curve difference in my upper back and neck. The result: after 5 years my upper back and especially my neck was shot pinching nerves going down both arms. On some days I can't type more than a paragraph and have to avoid the computer all together. Other days I can still operate a trackball and read. Doctors say I'll never work in my prior job again. It became critical when I got as manager who insisted on fixed hours (vs. before where I could take breaks in middle of day to do yoga -- and just work later into the night. It was good (essentially healthy) to break work up with a few hours of stretching and strengthening -- might have gone on for many years that way...but it was not to be. Once it's broken it doesn't go back.

Check out your posture now -- if you stand at a wall, with heels at wall, your body should touch at buttocks mid back and back of head. If your head has to tilt up to touch the wall, you have "kyphosis" (rounding of upper back)...the predecessor to hunch back. And it does become permanent in old age, but is reverseable with yoga or other back therapy. If you can place your hand behind your lower back when against the wall, that indicates lordosis (more common in women), but you can have both which means you are more screwed up than average. But again, you can work on both conditions. Studies published in the JAMA showed improvement in carpal tunnel with yoga, but this was with a specialized yoga practice tailored for such. Yoga Journal has an article on treatment for carpal tunnel and 2 articles for kyphosis (hunch back/rounded
shoulders) here and here. Using the site's search engine you can find articles on other problems as well, but a chair alone isn't going to be a cure because chairs, in general, are not designed to promote good posture and certain were never designed to be sat in 8+ hours a day.

No matter what chair you get, you'll still be tempted, when something is smaller than a movie screen, to get closer to the screen. And then there is still the keyboard and mouse. If you want your back (which includes your neck bones) supported, you need a zero-G workstation chair. That being said, you'll need something to support the monitor and keyboard so that they are adjustable and slightly above horizontal. If $600 is your limit, I dunno what to say. These days you can hardly buy a standard office chair for that amount. Think of it this way: how many hours do you spend in your car? How many will you spend in your workstation chairs? Consider the ratio of money you are willing to spend on each.

For monitor and keyboard stands, checkout the one at Ergotron on the left. It positions the monitor in an infinite number of positions over you so that you never have to hunch forward.

I got a lower back injury at my last job. That got me "favoring" my lower back in terms of support with me ending up making the curve difference in my upper back and neck. The result: after 5 years my upper back and especially my neck was shot pinching nerves going down both arms. On some days I can't type more than a paragraph and have to avoid the computer all together. Other days I can still operate a trackball and read. Doctors say I'll never work in my prior job again. It became critical when I got as manager who insisted on fixed hours (vs. before where I could take breaks in middle of day to do yoga -- and just work later into the night. It was good (essentially healthy) to break work up with a few hours of stretching and strengthening -- might have gone on for many years that way...but it was not to be. Once it's broken it doesn't go back.

Check out your posture now -- if you stand at a wall, with heels at wall, your body should touch at buttocks mid back and back of head. If your head has to tilt up to touch the wall, you have "kyphosis" (rounding of upper back)...the predecessor to hunch back. And it does become permanent in old age, but is reverseable with yoga or other back therapy. If you can place your hand behind your lower back when against the wall, that indicates lordosis (more common in women), but you can have both which means you are more screwed up than average. But again, you can work on both conditions. Studies published in the JAMA showed improvement in carpal tunnel with yoga, but this was with a specialized yoga practice tailored for such. Yoga Journal has an article on treatment for carpal tunnel and 2 articles for kyphosis (hunch back/rounded
shoulders) here and here. Using the site's search engine you can find articles on other problems as well, but a chair alone isn't going to be a cure because chairs, in general, are not designed to promote good posture and certain were never designed to be sat in 8+ hours a day.

Yoga Inside has been active since 1999 based on work done in 1995 by Mark Stephens in LA juvenile detention camps with six Tibetan monks sent by the Dalai Lama. here

That book has a website, www.yoga-insideout.com, here

"Inside and Out" is a popular way of describing holistic health, and the phrase "yoga inside" is commonly used to describe the experience, like the site here.

There is a travel company called Inside India which works with several Yoga therapy centers for health tours, here.

Barbara Kallir directed an instructional video guide to tantric yoga, "Inside Westside". Recommended for the Lawyers after those free courses, here.

Couldn't find a link between the Dalai Lama and Intel, unless you count that both are successful exiles. Although Apple struck the Dalai Lama from their Asian billboards so maybe ..nah.

The fourth most popular use of the word conjunction "yoga inside" on the web, after the prison project, the video, and general discussions of yoga and health experiences, is Intel's suit. How many hundreds of millions of dollars of PR is this costing Intel I wonder? Maybe the defendant should get the video publisher to join in, seems like they are making lots of money with their domain name.