You might be tempted to dismiss eye yoga with a good old-fashioned roll of your own eyes.
But with ‘digital eye strain’ on the rise, the practice promises brighter, better-rested eyes, a cure for eye strain and even improved vision
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Sir Paul said he had learned the practice from a yogi he met in India in the 2000s.
“He explained that your eyes are muscles. Your ears aren’t, so you can’t exercise your ears. But your eyes, you can”pic.twitter.com/E11onv0k19
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Yogi and wellbeing expert Phoebe Greenacre introduced online eye yoga classes during lockdown:
She says: “It’s important to use the full range of our sight, just as it’s important to use the full range of our body”pic.twitter.com/ntm88v17kp
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What does an eye yoga workout involve?
Warming up your hands and cupping your eyes
Fast blinking
Zooming your vision in and out
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Sir Paul says eye yoga can “look a bit weird”
But he maintains that as well as preserving his own vision, it helped a friend’s daughter to boost hers and delay the need for glassespic.twitter.com/g8hDHPZcz1
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Is there any science behind the trend?
A 2012 study showed little to no improvement in short-sightedness.
However, in another study of 60 nursing students, eight weeks of eye yoga practice was shown to make eyes feel less tiredpic.twitter.com/xCMr4r2awG
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The verdict from Optometrist Sheena Tanna-Shah is: “Eye yoga can feel pleasant and I don’t think it can cause any harm."
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Sir Paul McCartney cuts a youthful figure.
His moptop is luxuriant and, at 78, his vision remains as good as ever too
His secret for 20/20 vision? Eye yoga.
It has a growing fanbase, but can eye yoga really help improve your sight?
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