Akash Sharma
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17 June 2026
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Art Guild, Lower Parel, Mumbai
On International Yoga Day 2026, the Beiersdorf India team at Art Guild, Lower Parel, paused. Not for a break — but for something more intentional. For 60 minutes, 25 professionals stepped away from their screens, their targets, and their to-do lists, and turned their attention inward. What happened in that room was not a wellness event. It was a reset.
The session in progress — Beiersdorf India, Art Guild, Lower Parel, Mumbai · 17 June 2026
Beiersdorf — the global company behind Nivea, Eucerin and Hansaplast — had organised an in-office International Yoga Day event for their Mumbai team. The brief was simple: one hour, on-site, no mats, no prior yoga experience required. The goal was to give people something they could actually use — not a performance, but a practice.
The session was facilitated by Akash Sharma, founder of OneChipGrowth and a 900-hour Advanced Teacher trained at The Yoga Institute, Mumbai. The theme chosen for the session was rooted in Yogic philosophy: Sattva, Rajas and Tamas — the three states of mind, and the path back to natural balance.
"A healthier you builds a stronger workplace. We don't just care for skin — we care for the people behind it."
Left: The conditioning and story phase — setting the tone. Right: Interactive Q&A — the room responds.
The Beiersdorf India office at Art Guild is a modern, open-plan workspace — exactly the kind of environment where wellness is both most needed and hardest to create. There was no dedicated studio, no yoga mats, no change rooms. The session happened at desks, in office chairs, in regular work clothes.
And that, in many ways, was the point. The tools of yogic science do not require a separate space or a separate identity. They work at your desk. Before your laptop opens. Between meetings. In the two minutes before a difficult conversation. The session demonstrated this not by explaining it — but by doing it.
The moment when the room comes alive — genuine laughter during the interactive phase.
The most powerful fifteen minutes of the session were also the quietest. After the movement and the interaction, after the story and the framework — the room went still. 25 professionals, seated at their own desks, hands resting on their knees, eyes closed, following the count.
Inhale — 4. Hold — 4. Exhale — 8.
Left nostril. Right nostril. The alternating rhythm of Anulom Vilom — balancing the two hemispheres of the brain, activating the parasympathetic nervous system, reducing cortisol in real time. The science is clear. But what is harder to convey is what a room of people looks like when this is actually working.
The pranayam moment — the entire team seated in stillness, hands on knees, following the guided breath count. This is what reset looks like.
"The goal is not to fight your body. The goal is to convince it that it is safe."— The principle that guided every moment of this session
At the end of the session, the team came together for a group photograph — something that rarely happens spontaneously in a corporate context unless the experience has genuinely meant something. The energy was warm, open, and quietly energised.
Left: The Beiersdorf India team at the close of the session. Right: Akash receiving a Hansaplast gift from senior management — a gesture of appreciation from one of the world's great wellness brands.
Akash was presented with a Hansaplast gift by the senior management — a warm gesture from a company whose products have been caring for people's physical wellbeing for over a century. It felt fitting. OneChipGrowth and Beiersdorf, in that room, were working toward the same thing: healthier people.
Corporate wellness does not need to be a separate day, a separate space, or a separate identity from work. It needs to be practical, science-based, and delivered by someone who understands both the yogic tradition and the modern professional context.
An hour. Twenty-five people. A standard office floor. And the tools to leave that room more grounded, more present, and more capable than when they walked in.
That is what OneChipGrowth delivers. And this session at Beiersdorf India proved that it works — not in a wellness studio, but in the middle of a Tuesday morning at work.
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