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

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00:00Happy National Yoga Day to all the Gulf News readers.

00:03For all the skeptics out there, I was one of you.

00:06Please adopt yoga, baby steps, start soon.

00:09But start, it'll change your life, change your mind, change your soul and your body.

00:13Happy Yoga Day to all the Gulf News readers, watchers and I'm an amateur yogini

00:19and all I can say is baby steps gets you to where you would want to be

00:23and something that helps you spiritually, emotionally, mentally is something which is good for you.

00:27So please try to get yoga as a part of your day.

00:30Even if it's 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, start somewhere, I'm sure you'll be happy.

00:36So we're here for International Yoga Day which is my favourite celebration of the year.

00:41I'm a new yogi, I'm a 4 year old yogi but I take it very very seriously

00:46and my heart and my soul is into yoga and what better way to celebrate it than with Gulf News.

00:52So 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, I would say that but it's something that I really enjoy doing

01:03because I have been very influenced by the teachings of Buddhism.

01:07So this seems like an extended version of that because Buddhism also involves chanting and breathing

01:12and yoga's biggest, I mean apart from the health and the weight and etc.

01:16whatever it helps you with physically, emotionally, mentally it gives you so much more peace and calm

01:21than any other workout form.

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

01:27So I'm super excited that we're here.

01:29So 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.

01:38So we did that, we continued our practice on Zoom.

01:41So every morning 10am, 4 of us girls with our trainer were on Zoom doing yoga.

01:46Because I said there's no way I'm skipping that, pandemic or no pandemic.

01:49In fact because of the pandemic, I needed to do it all the more.

01:52And she and mom would keep making fun out of me because like randomly at 6pm we're just hanging out.

01:56I said, guys I feel like doing...

01:58Stretching.

01:59No inversion, headstand.

02:00She would just love doing a headstand.

02:01So I was just like, guys I feel like doing a headstand.

02:03And they're like, Kiran keep doing inversion.

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

02:10I need to be inversed.

02:12And then she would 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.

02:18I really enjoy trying different cuisines.

02:21Wherever I travel, I try to find the most local food.

02:24I used to eat meat, which I've stopped now.

02:27So...

02:28Again my influence.

02:29Again her influence.

02:30You should be telling me your stomach is a graveyard.

02:32Your stomach is a graveyard.

02:33But you know somewhere, like that.

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

02:39Something just changed.

02:40And I was like, I can't do this anymore.

02:42I cannot eat meat.

02:43So it's been a year and a half I've not touched anything.

02:45Maybe over a year and a half now.

02:47So for me, food has been very, very important.

02:49But healthy eating also.

02:51Because I've always suffered from weight issues.

02:54Since I was a baby.

02:55I don't know if it's hereditary or what it was or is.

02:59But I cannot not...

03:01If I just eat normally also for like a week, 10 days.

03:04I'll just gain a lot of weight.

03:05Plus I have PCOD.

03:06So that's why yoga was something that was really helpful.

03:08Because it helps even control your PCOD.

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

03:15So that's why more than a workout.

03:16Because I would rather do my weight training also.

03:19I enjoy it because of these reasons.

03:21Like it controls your insides.

03:23Makes you feel good.

03:25Healthier.

03:26And yeah, so food can't stop.

03:28Won't stop.

03:29So got to do more stuff to control.

03:31I have the opposite actually.

03:32I eat to live.

03:34I'm not a foodie.

03:35I'm not a junkie.

03:36Like for me, Khichdi, Dal, Sabzi.

03:39I'm happy.

03:40Like these guys want to kill me.

03:41Even when we travel on the third, fourth day.

03:43I can be in Japan or America or Europe.

03:45I need Dal, Sabzi.

03:47That's me.

03:48Basic.

03:49I'm very basic.

03:50I just eat to live.

03:52But I've always been a health freak.

03:54I'm a crazy health junkie.

03:56But I don't go on fads and diets and stuff.

03:58I always want to eat home food.

03:59And satisfy myself.

04:01And move on.

04:02You know, I get a little upset with people when they say that

04:05Yoga is being bastardized.

04:07It's being too westernized.

04:08I understand what you're saying.

04:10But I've even gone to those LA classes in yoga.

04:12Which they say is not authentic at all.

04:14It still gives you something.

04:15You still leave the class feeling something.

04:17And that's what's important.

04:18So I feel yoga just...

04:20Also for women.

04:21A lot of women can't do weights.

04:23A lot of men can't do sports.

04:24Yoga is something you can do with yourself.

04:26It's so internalized.

04:28And it just...

04:29I think it's one of the rare workout forms or whatever

04:32That after one hour you're rejuvenated.

04:34And you're re-energized.

04:36So I think that's gaining momentum.

04:38People are realizing that.

04:39And because there are more forms.

04:40You know, your basic...

04:42Exactly.

04:44There are so many cooler ways.

04:45Now I do aerial yoga.

04:46I do yoga with bamboo stakes.

04:48It's obviously all being reinvented and stuff like that.

04:51So it has a taste for everyone.

04:54Coming to your point about people can't do it.

04:57I was one of them.

04:58Because I'm a very restless person.

04:59My mind is never calm.

05:01So for me, I felt like that time.

05:03I've become way more calm now in the last couple of years.

05:06But earlier, I was just always restless.

05:09I couldn't sit in a position for 2 minutes and just breathe.

05:12But now I've started realizing the importance of being with yourself.

05:17Giving just no thoughts.

05:19Just trying to control your mind as much as possible.

05:22Because the world is just moving so fast.

05:24Everyone is constantly stressed and worked up.

05:27It's just becoming very negative sometimes.

05:30So I feel many people are going to move into where I was.

05:35To where I am.

05:36Where it was like, oh my god, I need to get done with this.

05:38Because the workout was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

05:40I'm done 45 minutes out.

05:41There's a lot of good music.

05:42There's always stimulants.

05:44You don't have a stimulant.

05:45You're just by yourself in your mind.

05:47So I feel like a lot of people are going to reach that point where they grow up.

05:50And they understand that being by myself is a good thing.

05:53And that's when I think they'll start adopting yoga more willingly.

05:57And not as occasionally as they're doing it right now.

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