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Hello and welcome to health Potion the show about gamers and Health.
I'm Jaymii
- I'm Karina
- and today we're talking about
yoga
[intro theme music]
so why do we as gamers care about yoga?
- well I would say it's very good for us
because it helps us to stretch out our muscles
so you know when you're gaming for a really long time
you tend to sit in the same position
and that kind of tenses you up a little bit
and you really need to kind of relax and elongate your spine
you know get some good posture going
also games put your body into like a sympathetic overdrive
so I'm sure you've heard of fight and flight, rest and digest
- yes - so our bodies are not really great at differentiating
the difference between a tiger hunting us down and a tiger hunting us down in a video game
- especially if you're playing VR - especially if you're playing VR
that stuff is tricky
so I our body can't differentiate between the two very well
so what yoga can give us is
it switches your body from being a sympathetic so that's a fight and flight
to your parasympathetic which is like your rest and digest
so it kind of forces your body into relaxing and taking a break
earlier this year I hurt my back at work and it sucked
it sucked a big time and I before this time did not really care about yoga at all
I thought why would I waste my time on this exercise which didn't really seem to do much
when I could be like if I'm gonna go out I'm gonna go for a run and spend all my time on aerobic type exercises
and then all the doctors once I did this were like "you have to do yoga"
It started off subtle at first like "have you tried yoga?"
and then it was just like "no you've got to do yoga"
because basically I wasn't allowed to do anything
I wasn't allowed to sit down and sitting down was like the worst thing for my back
and now when I do yoga I'm allowed to sit down again
basically those small times of the day
where like take a 10 minute break to do the stretches that my physio had recommended
basically just makes my back feel like magic
and I just thought if I'm doing this because of my injury but what was like before my injury
and just yoga just made be become so much more aware of my body and how it was feeling
and I become- now I know like when I'm sitting I understand how I'm feeling better
I just am more in tune with myself
even though it's kind of bad because I know when I'm more likely to be hurt
but I'm just more likely also to know what I need and when I need it
-Yeah it kind of promotes you to become a little bit more aware about how your body is feeling
in like a muscular sense as well as a postural sense
and you just deepens that connection
and the great thing about yoga is it's free
I think there's a lot of companies out there who promote certain products
and you "have to have it" but that's not really true at all
it's a- you know you have its origins in India of like centuries and centuries ago
it was practised by absolutely everyone in the country
and nowadays with the internet you- there's apps there's websites
all that teach you had to do it for free
and the great thing is it's for every fitness level
you can always do it to your pace and you can tailor make it
I think Jaymii has some apps that she's gonna mention - yeah
it's like use- well first of all YouTube is fantastic
there are like so many different YouTube videos you can do for free
so just you can just watch it and do that one
option number two is like there's some apps there's one app that I recently got-
which allows you to even choose which moves you want to make your own playlists
but of course once you know how to do certain moves
that you find useful so and you might not necessarily want to do a new routine
if you have like a small routine that you particularly enjoy doing
you can even just record- like time yourself, how long you want to do each stretch
and record it as a voice memo on your phone
and then just play it and then you know what you're doing
and you don't have to worry about money at all
basically learn the skills and then use them how it works best for you
'cause there's so many different types of yoga
there's like the hot yoga, there's the chanting yoga, there's like intense yoga
- remedial yoga - relaxing yoga
I think- I mean everyone thinks yoga and they think about these people like standing on their heads
and doing all these crazy bends and honestly that's... that's "Instagram yoga"
and that's not real yoga and it's very flashy and it's very fun
and I think great for those people for like getting to that level of strength and flexibility
but I think a little bit more of an everyday sense even if you can't even like touch your toes
like the fact that you're doing something good for your body
is good enough and it's like small tiny incremental changes
that happen within your body each time that you do it that means that you'll be better
just that little bit better next time and don't beat yourself up if you can't do a headstand
I can't do a headstand no I can't balance on one foot
I'm just not there yet and I'm totally fine with that
- my favourite yoga poses are the ones I can do lying down
especially in the morning because like my body feels incredible afterwards
but also I got to lay down
and like remember like one of the moves of yoga is literally laying down
- it's called corpse pose and you lay there and you just breathe
- and oh- and breathing we need to talk about breathing
- yes - breathing is like such a huge part of yoga
and it's something I am terrible at but I want to get better at
so with yoga they get you to focus a lot on deep breathing
so filling up your lungs all the way
and that's really really important because a lot of us have really bad posture
and we like shrink our lungs and we don't actually breathe deeply
but another part of yoga is actually breathing out and holding that breath out
and that's actually really really important for reducing stress and anxiety in the sense that
when we breathe out and hold the breath out
we're increasing the co2 level so the carbon dioxide within our blood
and that actually relaxes the body and it forces you to relax
because that low oxygen state kind of puts you in a weird little trance
it sounds really weird - I didn't know this I'm learning so much
- and it's actually really great for people with asthma as well
it can really help reduce your system's- um symptoms
and a lot of the people where you could like learn a little bit more about it's called Buteyko breathing
we'll put links down the bottom but it's that's the other side of breathing with yoga
as well as the deep breathing which increases your oxygen
but if you're a little bit stressed focusing on the breath out is really important
- when I get anxiety especially at work I stop breathing
it's like the first thing I notice especially if I'm talking to someone
and I'm nervous about my response
or like I don't want them to hear me breathing so I just like stop breathing and hold my breath
and then I just can never catch up so
- it's about the controlled breathing
and then like out and then holding that out for four
and then breathing in - and like breathing as well you breathe with like your abdomen
which is also fantastic for your abdomen
- Yeah because you're having to use those muscles
and it's kind of uncomfortable at first
'cause you're like oh my goodness I haven't used those muscles
I haven't innovated my diaphragm like enough in the past like 27 years
and it kind of freaks out a little bit
but it gets stronger again your body gets used to it and it helps improve your core strength
- and it means when you sit so when you're sitting down to play a game
you're actually like lifting yourself up better and so you're less likely to injure yourself
and just like you be able to sit for longer without feeling discomfort
- you can game for longer
which is always- which is kind of like the whole point of everything we're talking about
- Yeah exactly so you know your neck doesn't feel as sore
your shoulders and arms don't get as sore,
your back your lower back doesn't get us sore
I think we have another episode about ergonomics so when you're sitting and how to sit better
so that's gonna come up
I think it's, you know, very very important
- basically once you- like yoga is just like a fantastic easy small way to be able to understand yourself
and then you'll be able to apply that to like however you're moving and you'll go
oh yeah this is this movement and this is this movement
we haven't talked about towels
so yes you don't need any special equipment it's like completely and utterly free
even down to the fact that you don't even need a yoga mat now
- no you don't need yoga mat you can just use a couple of towels on your floor
that's enough to give you a bit of extra cushion you can even do it on your bed
if you don't have room you don't need any special clothing
just wear some normal loose comfortable clothes
- I yoga my pyjamas
- Yeah - makes me feel good [laughs]
- I yoga in my "home clothes" which are pyjamas
But mats are great too I got this one for really cheap at K-Mart
- oh yeah - so it's like 10 bucks
it's good for when um because I have very pokey like um hips
so if I do anything where I'm on my side it's like a little bit of cushion
So yoga free, it's easy you can do it to your own ability level
it'll help you reconnect with your body
and also help your digestive system as well
because it massages it all nicely
and remember if you try it and it's not for you you can try a different yoga instructor
or different videos or different ways of doing it
and if it's still not for you that's okay - that's okay
[laughs] this whole series is about exploring different ways to benefit your health
and not everything will be for everyone
but um hopefully we find that you get something out of it
- yeah - that's what we have for this episode
we'll catch you next time see ya - See ya
[music] so in yoga it's a lot about the deep breath- [loud high pitched sound]
dishwasher! - no I feel like it's the battery in my house alarm
but.... - Is it going to go again? - I don't know
- That's amazing
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