There's nothing sensual about a typical day at a typical office—hours on end of sedentary muscles and overstressed minds, stale coffee, recycled air, computer screens glowing beneath hard fluorescent lights. It's easy to forget you have a body, much less one that can be vividly, luxuriously alive.

We asked 11 women with careers focused around the physical—a Broadway dancer, a famous chef, and two Olympians, among them—how to keep our active, sexy, pleasure-loving sides with us as we think and argue our way through work, from first thing in the morning until we pull ourselves out of the office at night.

Start your day with a good stretch.

Print the Take Your Body to Work Day Plan!