This is a YouTube video titled "Free Your Breath and Your Body Follows with ‘Yoga Rebel’ Tara Stiles" containing an English conversation recorded in August 2022. The content features Tara Stiles discussing yoga poses and movement strategies to counteract the effects of prolonged sitting, emphasizing the importance of getting up and down from the floor for physical and emotional well-being. The discussion is between Tara Stiles and an unnamed speaker, focusing on practical advice for maintaining mobility and health.
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What's the best pose for people who are sitting looking at Zoom all day long?
Oh, gosh, I think just, you know, crawling down to the ground and sitting on the ground for a bit and then, you know, crawling up to stand. I think especially in yoga, you know, it can be so easy to forget about how you're moving sort of all the time and just sit down. And now I'm doing yoga and now I'm doing Zoom, and now I'm doing the kitchen and now I'm doing Zoom again. So I think really looking at how you're moving all the time, so even if you're at your Zoom desk and you're crawling down to the ground to sit and breathe for just a few moments, to open up your hips and whatever, I think it's even more important how you get down to the ground from your chair and how you get back up than the actual pose.
That's also important to do from an anti aging perspective. The ability to get up off the floor is one of the most important measures of whether you're going to live a long time. So that, that's something that a lot of people don't pay attention to. If you want to be fancy, I suppose a Turkish get up, which is very similar to some yoga poses, but you can do it with a kettlebell if you want to, is a way to, to do that. So basically get down and what, butterfly pose or cat pose or something on the ground and something like that or.
Yeah, I mean, I love that you said, you know, the getting up and down, I mean, I think especially for sitting at your desk a long time. And also, you know, just basic coordination that goes out the window as you age. Getting down on the ground, maybe on all four, around a little bit, you know, some cat cow, but not being really rigid about it, actually noticing what part of you needs a little attention. And not just physically, but, you know, understanding that a little physical tightness in your hip or your back may have an emotional component too. And that's okay, you know, that wasn't something that, you know, I learned growing up that it was just like, your body's good, you're good, you know, you're healthy and strong. So, you know, realizing that your emotions may be talking to you as well and that might be important to listen to. So just that getting down, a little bit of rolling around and some cat cow crawling back up to stand, maybe even a few times, just standing up and standing down in the easiest way you can and, you know, you can feel better pretty quickly.
Okay. I love that. So getting up and down off the floor doesn't have to be a fancy yoga pose. When you do it, that's. That's really accessible, and it jives with my understanding of mechanics and all of that.
