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We reached out to our partners during the height of the Coronavirus restrictions. We began working with Sense and Durham University to find out how Disabled people have been staying active during the coronavirus pandemic. We used this to influence what resources would help people stay active at home.
We used the findings from our research to co-design accessible and inclusive pre-recorded videos using the experiences and feedback. You can find these videos on the Get Yourself Active YouTube.
You can learn more about the Active at the Home project on our projects page.
Alongside this, we have been finding new ways, online videos and resources to help us to keep doing the activities we love.
This guide lists our current favourite Yoga videos shared by our friends and partners. If you have a suggestion for a video or resource to add, please email @GYAInfo@disabilityrightsuk.org
What is Yoga?
Yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines that originated in ancient India. There’s some evidence that regular yoga practice helps people with high blood pressure, heart disease, aches and pains (including lower back pain), depression and stress.
Yoga is a safe and effective way to increase strength, flexibility, and balance that can improve your physical and mental well-being. To begin, you don’t have to use a yoga mat. You could use something similar to lie on, a towel, or something soft. Please do make sure you have some water to hand.
4 Videos to try
- Seated Yoga with Adrienne
Yoga with Adrienne has various free YouTube videos available on their channel, including seated Yoga. Yoga can be soft and gentle but also really supportive and beneficial.
- Adaptive Yoga with Nina
WheelPower has a variety of free, online workouts available, including Yoga. Nina Boswell Brown from sittingfityoga.com will be your instructor as she demonstrates, explains, and guides you through a gentle warm up before showing you how to complete the Yoga poses safely and effectively.
- Yoga 4 All with Sheffield Cycling 4 All
Sheffield Cycling 4 All have created some free Yoga videos available on their YouTube channel. The videos are inspired by the Zoom classes they hosted for Disabled people and people with long term health conditions. They are available for all abilities.
Started by Miranda McCarthy in April 2020, as a direct response to Covid-19, Adaptive Yoga LIVE won the Points of Light award for providing free online adaptive yoga classes for the Disabled community throughout the pandemic. In this video, Basma Gale teaches a beginner’s courses for those with mobility issues, incorporating chair-based practice, some standing postures, and alternatives for those unable to stand.
Whatever you are looking for, there is a Guide for you, and you can search through Yoga, Dance, Cardio, Strength and Seated in the guides section of our website. Just select Active at Home on the filters at the top of the page.
We want these pages to always work for you. If there’s a resource you’d like to see more of – or you have a video of your own you think would interest others in the community, please reach out to the team and email @GYAInfo@disabilityrightsuk.org.
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