Breathing Rooms

Breathe…

When you’re thinking about creating a perfect studio, meeting space, or office for your clients, or space in your home you’re going to be taking a lot of things into consideration: lighting, design, ambiance. But have you considered plants?

Plants have lots of amazing benefits independent of yoga, but those benefits can add a lot to a home, studio or office: they increase mood, they can help heal the body (really!), and some plants can also clean the air, which can make a pretty big difference in how people feel as they practice in your studio.

Benefits:

• increase humidity which will help reduce viruses’ lifespan on surfaces and in the air, this also supports respiratory health

• clean the air of VOC’s

• Flood the room with UV light. With the proper yet inexpensive plant lights, flood the room with UV rays which help kill viruses on surfaces and in the air.

• release phytoncides, “essential oils” that boost our immune system by 40% and reduce stress hormones

• produce negative ions clinging to dust and other microscopic item floating in the air adding weight and remove the items from the air

So, as you think about designing (or re-designing) your studio, consider awesome plants.

We are happy to help with your Breathing Room Design!!!

A few things to note before we get into specific indoor plants. Generally, leafy plants are more effective in air purification. A quick example: ferns have a better surface area, which is important in air purification. Ferns have ruffled leaves, which increase the surface area available for gas conversion. The many small leaves also contribute to increasing the surface area. Ask us about plants you might need to consider for your wellness studio, yoga studio, or office space.

Indoor Air Pollutants and Air Purifiers

Indoor air pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, benzene, and formaldehyde are classified as volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. VOCs come from building materials, home, and personal care products and behaviors like smoking, cooking, or wood-burning stoves. Being carbon-based chemicals, VOCs are notorious for causing or exacerbating, health problems, especially in children and adults with existing respiratory illnesses.2

A number of people who have COPD use air purifying systems with HEPA filters to purify the air they breathe indoors. While air cleaning systems like these may remove some toxins from the air, they don't remove all of them. In fact, certain types actually raise indoor ozone concentrations above well-established safety levels.

Increase your Immune system and decrease your stress hormones.

Japan has been doing extensive research on how plants affect our immune systems and stress levels. Dr Qing Li Editor and contributor of Forest Medicine, has published research showing that not only do plants clean the air but can suppress disease.

The humidity released in the air by plants helps protect us from respiratory problems, coughs, and sore throats. The negative ions produced bond with and remove, dust particles, mould, bacteria and allergens.

Essential oils containing phytoncides from the trees such as Hinoki Cypress Boosts the immune system by 40%, fight fatigue, relieves tension, relieves anxiety and improves concentration.

We at gardenalia can help you design and implement a space that does all of the above. We are offering in person consultations as well as 30 minute online/video conferencing consultations.

Introducing:

Music of The Plants, the new way to interact with plants and actually hear their reactions.

This is the Perfect addition to any breathing room!

Plant therapy taken to a new level!!!