Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People book review

Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People
by Darrin Zeer

Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People is a collection of simple yoga stretches designed for those who are desk-bound the majority of the day. The stretches, as asanas as they are known in Sanskrit, will help not only physically, but will also help bring more calmness, ease, and focus into your daily work life.

Office Yoga provides asanas for your morning routine (”Morning Eye Openers”), through your return home (”Evening Balancers”). The section at “At-the-Desk Relaxation” provides helpful tips for keeping your hands and wrists relaxed through Keyboard Calisthenics, as well as self-massage techniques and other relaxation methods. The “Afternoon Invgorations” chapter gives some tips on perking up about the time that you are ready for that 3 p.m. coffee or chocolate!

Scattered throughout the book are helpful tips on diet and other tips on decreasing stress and increasing happiness. Best of all, the contents include a Quick Help Guide for common workplace ailments like stiff neck and shoulders; eye strain; low energy; and sore lower backs so you can quickly find the stretches to help with your pain.

Find Office Yoga on Chronicle Books’ website, or your favorite bookshop.

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I love a good themed sock, even though I don’t knit them all that often. I guess maybe it feels like why take all that time to knit something I can only use for a couple of weeks a year?

But honestly a lot of things we knit don’t get a ton of use and we still love them. And I’m all about bringing the whimsy whenever possible, so why let people who buy themed socks have all the fun? (Also people are not looking at your socks so go ahead and wear the seasonal socks all year. Probably no one will notice unless you tell them.)

The Hey There Pumpkin socks from Fiber and Fern Designs would be cute to knit and to wear throughout the fall. They’re not strictly Halloween socks, but you could wear them for that. You can also wear them to the pumpkin patch, and to any even through Thanksgiving that needs a little more fun.

Of course if you wanted to make them Halloween socks you could use duplicate stitch to make little faces on some or all of the pumpkins. Or even just one one random pumpkin on each sock to give a reference to Halloween but still make them wearable and on theme throughout the fall.

The socks use three colors and have a German short row heel. There are options for knitting them as short socks or calf length socks. The pattern has three sizes for small, medium and large women’s feet (roughly US shoe sizes 6.5 to 7 for size small, 8 to 9 for medium and 10 to 11 for large).

The pattern is written with instructions given by stitch count or the placement of markers, so you can use whatever your favorite method is for sock knitting in the round, whether that’s magic loop, DPNS, a short circular or two circulars.

You can find this pattern at Fiber and Fern Designs on Etsy.

[Photo: Fiber and Fern Designs]

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