Siblings Anushka and Akansha Ranjan celebrate 'International Yoga Day' With Gulf News in Dubai

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There was absolute harmony and peace as Bollywood stars and siblings Anushka and Akansha Ranjan spearheaded a yoga masterclass in Dubai on Sunday and drove home the importance of stretching one’s mind and body at one go.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/health/bollywood-stars-lead-international-yoga-day-with-gulf-news-in-dubai-1.88700102   See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km

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00:00Happy International Yoga Day to all the Gulf News readers for all the skeptics out there

00:04I was one of you, please adopt yoga baby steps not soon

00:08But start it'll change your life change your mind change your soul and your body

00:12Happy Yoga Day to all the Gulf News readers watchers and I'm an amateur yoga yogini

00:18And all I can say is baby steps gets you to where you would want to be and something that helps you spiritually

00:24Emotionally mentally is something which is good for you

00:27So, please try to get yoga as a part of your day, even if it's 5 minutes 10 minutes 20 minutes start somewhere

00:33I'm sure you'll be happy

00:36So we're here for International Yoga Day, which is my favorite celebration of the year. I'm a new yogi

00:42I'm a four-year-old yogi, but I take it very very seriously and

00:47My heart my soul is in the yoga and what better way to celebrate it than with Gulf News

00:51So she is a very advanced level yogini and she has been an influence as to why I wanted to get into yoga

00:58So I'm an amateur

00:59I would say that but it's something that I really enjoy doing because I have been very influenced by the teachings of Buddhism

01:06So this seems like an extended version of that because Buddhism also involves chanting and breathing and yoga's biggest

01:13I mean apart from the health and the weight and etc. Whatever helps you with physically

01:18Emotionally mentally it gives you so much more peace and calm than any other workout form

01:23So for me, that is something which has been very attractive about yoga

01:26So I'm super excited that we are here. So I go to this place called Diva Yoga, which has taught me everything about yoga

01:33So my trainer and I would still train and we have a group of girls that we work out together

01:37So we did that we continue our practice on zoom. So every morning 10 a.m

01:42Four of us girls with our trainer were on zoom doing yoga because I said there's no way I'm skipping that pandemic on open

01:48I'm in fact because of the pandemic I needed to do it all the more and she and mom would give me fun out of me

01:53Because like randomly at 6 p.m. We're just hanging out. I said guys. I feel like doing it

01:57No inversion

01:59You just love doing a headstand. I just think guys make me a headstand. Just just just I'm like

02:06We would just stand and she's like guys I feel like I need to do an inversion

02:10I mean most and it should just go into a headstand and I'm like, why are you doing that?

02:15So for me personally, I've always been a major major foodie. I

02:19Really enjoy trying different cuisines wherever I travel. I try to find the most local food

02:23I used to eat meat which has stopped now. So, um again my again her influence

02:29She used to tell me your stomach is a graveyard. Your stomach is a graveyard, but you know somewhere like

02:35Apart from that like once we adopted our dog. Also, I got a little

02:39Something just changed and I was like, I can't do this anymore. I cannot eat meat

02:42So it's been a year and a half. I've not touched anything maybe over a year and a half now

02:46Hey, so for me food has been very very important

02:48But healthy eating also because I've always suffered from weight issues since I was a baby

02:54I don't know if it's hereditary or what it was or is but I cannot not

03:00If I just eat normally also for like a week 10 days, I'll just gain a lot of weight. Let's have PCOD

03:06So that's a yoga was something that was really helpful because it helps even control your PCOD, you know

03:11It helps with a lot of issues that women face

03:13Yeah, and more than so that's why like more than a workout because I would rather do my weight training

03:18Also, I enjoy it because of these reasons like it controls your insides keep makes you feel good healthier

03:26And yeah, so food can't stop won't stop. So gotta do more stuff to control

03:30I have the opposite actually I eat to live. I don't I'm not a foodie

03:35I'm not a junkie like for me khichdi, daal, sabzi

03:38I'm happy like these guys want to kill me even when we travel on the third fourth day

03:42I can be in Japan or America or Europe. I need

03:46daal jao like that's me by the third or fourth day. I'm very basic. I just eat to live

03:52But I've always been a health freak. I'm a crazy health junkie, but I don't go on fads and like diets and stuff

03:57I always want to eat home food and

04:00Satisfy myself and

04:02You know, I get a little upset with people when they say that. Oh, it's you know, yoga is being bastardized is being too westernized

04:07I I understand what you're saying

04:09But even I've even gone to those LA classes in yoga, which they say is like not authentic at all

04:13It still gives you something you still leave the class feeling something and that's what's important. So I feel yoga just

04:20Also for women a lot of women can't do weights

04:22A lot of men can't do sports like yoga something you can do with yourself. Like it's it's so internalized

04:27It's and it just I think it's one of the red

04:30Workout forms or whatever that you see after one hour you're rejuvenated and you're you know re-energized

04:35So I think that's gaining momentum people are realizing that and because there are more forms like, you know, you're basic

04:41Yeah, exactly. Exactly. There's so many cooler ways. Like now I do aerial yoga. I do yoga with like bamboo stakes

04:47I do they're just it's obviously all being reinvented and stuff like that

04:51So it's hazard like everyone the taste for everyone coming to your point about people can't do it

04:57I was one of them because I'm a very restless person. My mind is never calm

05:00So for me, I felt like that time so I become way more calm now in the last couple of years

05:06But earlier I was just always restless like I couldn't sit in a position for two minutes and just breathe

05:12But you know now I started realizing the importance of being with yourself

05:17Giving just no thoughts just like trying to just control your mind as much as possible because the world is just moving so fast

05:24Everyone is constantly stressed and worked up and you know, it's just becoming very negative sometimes

05:30So I feel many of many people are gonna move into where I was to where I am

05:36Where it was like, oh my god, I need to get done with this because the workout is like, yeah

05:39Yeah, I'm done 45 minutes. There's a lot of good music. Yeah, there's always stimulants. You don't have a stimulant

05:44You're just by yourself in your mind

05:46So I feel like a lot of people are going to reach that point where they grow up and they understand that

05:51Being by myself is a good thing and that's when I think they start adopting yoga more willingly and more

05:58You know, okay, not as occasionally as they're doing it right now

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