Yoga with Bollywood actress Esha Gupta

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Bollywood actress and model Esha Gupta, who will open the two-day XYoga Dubai festival at Kite Beach on February 21 with yoga expert Jacob Manning, has been practicing Iyengar yoga for the last 10 years. For her, doing a split — a move that calls for superb flexibility — is her idea of warming up and a comfortable posture to sit. Gulf News tabloid. Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3bVzXEq See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km Indian actress and model Esha Gupta on her yoga journey and fitness secrets #Bollywood #yoga #EshaGupta

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00:00Hold your one hand and you just lift it from your shoulder to your hands and then try and reach up, up, up, up, up.

00:08I think this is something that's actually, they say that till now it really helps to heighten yourself.

00:17Today is a very different Friday morning. A, I'm up at 8am which never happens.

00:23However, I've decided to be healthy this morning because Bollywood star Isha Gupta who has been practicing yoga for the last 10 years

00:32is going to be on stage in a few minutes to show us her signature moves.

00:38Yoga is all about, you know, taking a moment, breathing, what we forget to do in our real life now

00:43because our life has become so fast, it's all about Instagram, it's all about social media.

00:49You know, even your work is the same like us. We are either working 20 hours a day or otherwise we are just sitting at home.

00:55I wish I was just sitting at home but yes.

00:57But you know, it tends to happen for someone like me at least I'll say because of our schedule.

01:01But when we work, we work 20 hours.

01:03You know, so it's so difficult looking the best, feeling the best and it's not just about looking the best

01:09because I feel you need to feel best from the inside. That's how you can amend your positivity to the world.

01:16And I think that's why yoga is so important because you breathe at every asana and just think and connect with your body.

01:23And she's also a proponent of Surya Namaskars. How many should we do?

01:27That is Ishaan's salutation for those who are unfamiliar with yoga poses.

01:30It's got how many movements? I'm not sure.

01:32So the way, the one I do, it has 15 poses but I always do.

01:37So there are different kind of people who like to follow different things.

01:41There are some people who believe in doing it in a flow.

01:44So you're not holding every pose and you're just doing it in a flow and you do it really fast.

01:49That's to burn calories they feel but for me, it's about sweating.

01:53If you hold the pose, any pose, you're even breathing, relaxing, understanding plus just holding the pose.

02:01People don't realize the amount of core is being used.

02:03And that's when you realize your stability is like going like that, you know.

02:07And that's what so I do about like 15 a day and I'm sorted.

02:10She's been practicing yoga for the last 10 years and she's going to show us her favorite poses.

02:15We might look like a lobster doing it, she looks like a swan.

02:18So go ahead.

02:19I'm just going to say that more than yoga, this I do almost every morning.

02:23I think it's also because it just opens your hip flexors.

02:27I'm a dancer as well, it helps me with that.

02:29And as women, we wear heels.

02:32So this is for all of that.

02:34So I don't know.

02:36I know it looks easy.

02:39Wow, that's amazing.

02:41Basically, you just hold your one hand and you just lift it.

02:45You're from your shoulder to your hands and then try and reach up, up, up, up, up.

02:50I think this is something that's actually, they say that till now, it really helps to heighten yourself.

02:56Oh, really?

02:57So I really hope that's the reason I'm tall.

02:59But I've been actually doing yoga since I was 10.

03:03Since you were 10?

03:04Yeah, because my father does yoga.

03:06But I'm not a practice.

03:08No, I'm not a yogi, guys.

03:10So this is something that it really elongates you.

03:13You have to just feel like something's pulling you.

03:15Yeah.

03:16And it stretches your low back.

03:18Like I have a low back problem because of all the travel that we keep doing.

03:21I have a neck issue.

03:23I don't have these issues, but just by traveling a lot, this keeps happening.

03:27And this actually, they say till now, like till whatever age, if you keep doing it, you'll actually heighten yourself.

03:33Okay, namaste to that.

03:35Thank you so much.

03:36And to all the tall people.

03:37I know.

03:38Here is how you can grow tall in life and wear heels, right?

03:42Without pain.

03:43Fantastic.

03:44Thank you, Isha, for your time.

03:47As always.

03:49Oh, really.

03:50It's so much fun.

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