{"id":8359,"date":"2019-10-02T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=8359"},"modified":"2019-10-15T14:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:06:49","slug":"health-new-england-partners-with-online-yoga-company-ompractice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/health-new-england-partners-with-online-yoga-company-ompractice\/","title":{"rendered":"Health New England Partners With Online Yoga Company Ompractice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle\"><em>Providing benefits of yoga to Health New England members around the region virtually.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SPRINGFIELD, Mass.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 1, 2019<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Ompractice is pleased to announce a new partnership with regional health plan Health New England. Ompractice, a <span class=\"xn-location\">Springfield<\/span>-based wellness startup, offers live online yoga using two-way video technology, so students are seen by the yoga instructor.<\/p>\n<p>This partnership allows Health New England to offer a range of incredibly convenient, high quality yoga classes to eligible members of their health plans through the Ompractice online resource.\u00a0The benefits of this partnership include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health New England members have access to over 70 classes per week of live online interactive yoga with the accountability and community of a live studio, but the freedom to take classes from anywhere, at times that are convenient.<\/li>\n<li>Eligible members can use their Health New England wellness reimbursement benefit\u00a0to pay for a monthly or annual subscription to Ompractice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Health New England is excited to partner with Ompractice to offer easily accessible and affordable quality yoga classes to our members. Health New England associates have been participating in a 3-month yoga program pilot with Ompractice, and the feedback has been very positive&#8221; states <span class=\"xn-person\">Katie Bruno<\/span>, Health New England&#8217;s Public Health and Wellness Program Manager.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Health New England associate Erin Kalagher\u00a0adds, &#8220;Ompractice has helped me improve my yoga greatly. The classes are convenient and affordable with different levels of difficulty to choose from, and every instructor I&#8217;ve had has been clearly passionate about helping each student become better.\u00a0I&#8217;m grateful Health New England introduced this program to us, and I&#8217;m looking forward to continuing my practice with Ompractice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re incredibly excited about the opportunity to serve the Health New England member community<b>,&#8221; <\/b>says <span class=\"xn-person\">Samantha Tackeff<\/span>, Co-Founder of Ompractice. &#8220;At Ompractice, our mission is to provide the benefits of high-quality yoga to those who might not otherwise have access to great studios &#8211; be it for financial reasons, schedule, geography or otherwise. We couldn&#8217;t be happier to be impacting our own community in Western Mass while working hand in hand with an innovative health plan like Health New England.<b>&#8220;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>About Health New England<br class=\"dnr\" \/><\/b>Based in <span class=\"xn-location\">Springfield, Massachusetts<\/span>, Health New England is a not-for-profit health plan serving members in <span class=\"xn-location\">Massachusetts<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Connecticut<\/span>. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Baystate Health, Health New England offers a range of health care plans in the commercial, Medicaid and Medicare markets. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2590957-1&amp;h=3486809187&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthnewengland.org%2F&amp;a=healthnewengland.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">healthnewengland.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Ompractice<br class=\"dnr\" \/><\/b>Heralded as &#8220;The Future of Yoga&#8221; by <i>Yoga Journal<\/i>, and one of the <i>Top 8 Mindfulness Apps<\/i> by Crunchbase, Ompractice offers high quality yoga instruction via two-way video, with the community and accountability of a live studio, that can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, at any time. Sign up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ompractice.com\/healthnewengland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ompractice.com\/healthnewengland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providing benefits of yoga to Health New England members around the region virtually. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. 1, 2019 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Ompractice is pleased to announce a new partnership with regional health plan Health New England. Ompractice, a Springfield-based wellness startup, offers live online yoga using two-way video technology, so students are seen by the yoga instructor. 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