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It's live now. Um I'll just give it a few minutes and then we can start. Yeah, all these platforms are different. Where does it say? I think about 15 registered. Last time I looked, where do they pop in? Can you see that on the right hand side? There's people. Oh, yeah. Ok. Yeah. Right. Start in a minute or so. Happy for me to start. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Hello, everyone. Um Hey, everyone's Well product. The wellbeing lead for mindedly. Uh today our wellbeing series is based on yoga. Um I've got Paul Fox here who's a CEO uh for yoga and healthcare alliance charity. Um I don't know if you've heard of Yoga for Health, which is like a 10 week program accredited by NHS. Um They also develop deliver yoga for NHS staff wellbeing program which is uh accredited by the Royal College of GPS. Um In today's session. Paul will cover the evidence behind yoga breathing practices, um approach to physical practice and a short yoga practice. Um I will now hand over to Paul. Thank you, Paul. Thanks so much. Welcome everyone. Thank you for joining me. Um Yeah, I've been sort of pioneering with our fellow directors at Yoga and Healthcare Alliance and Heather Mason who set up the whole thing and she runs a big yoga therapy training school in London. Um We've been trying to integrate the benefits of yoga into healthcare. We do that through the roots that have just been mentioned. We have a patient protocol which is superbly evidenced by the Westminster University study of 279 patients and that was published about five years ago now. And then more recently, we've been scaling up as rapidly as we can, the staff wellbeing program. And the other thing we do because we have this kind of program delivery side. And then we also have a sort of public campaigning role where we try to present information about evidence based yoga and how it can support patient health and wellbeing and also staff health and wellbeing. And so we are the secretariat for the All Party parliamentary group on Yo GRN society and two or three times a year, we hold meetings in the houses of parliament with experts in their field and they are able to present their evidence to mps and peers and policy makers to try and have an influence at that national level. So things we covered, we did one on prison yoga recently before that we did one on the teenage mental health crisis. So and before that, we did one on community sport and how that supports health. So we have quite, quite a broad reach. I have prepared a few slides, a few simple slides to share with you. And I'm also going to teach you a little bit of breathing to show how we teach breathing. Because that really is the, the most important and the main tool that we offer both patients and staff. And then I'll show you a couple of things you could do with your chair in an office situation. So um let's just see if this works. So there we go. Um I'm sure someone will unmute and tell me if anything is not showing, but I'll assume it is. I can see it. Thank you. Excellent, perfect. So yeah, this is, this is how I'm going to um sort of structure the session. Just tell you a little bit about our work. Um It's really important um that you know what we're doing because the patients are increasingly asking particularly in primary care settings, asking for the yoga for health program and staff are also asking for the yoga for NHS staff wellbeing program. And you know, we've been quite successful the last few years through organizations like the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, the College of Medicine and Integrated Health and other channels to really get our work out there. So it had already started with the 10 week program back in 2016 when a West London Clinical Commissioning Group, the NHS there put a quarter of a million pounds into the Yo Healthcare Alliance and Westminster University to create the first NHS commissioned evidence based social prescribing pathway for yoga. And of course social prescribing has become very important, a key feature of primary care now and I watched the landscape change while I've been running the er charity from very little social prescribing going on to now having the linked workers, the health coaches in every primary care setting. So we are an early intervention and prevention program. We're lifestyle medicine and we chose to do that because there are some other quite good interventions for particular things. Like there's yoga for healthy lower backs, which is a nice approved intervention. And there are other other specialist yoga therapy trained people working with trauma with different more complex medical conditions. But as you know, it's lifestyle related disease, it's non communicable disease. This is the greatest burden both of ill health, leading cause of death worldwide and creates an awful lot of demand within the healthcare system. So we've always had these twin objectives of supporting the NHS by trying to be part of the initiative to get patients to self care, ah better to adopt lifestyle medicine, make lifestyle change, sustainable lifestyle change and therefore need fewer treatments, appointments and drugs. And you really need that with the demographics that we have in this country and other sort of mature industrial nations where the working population is shrinking and the older population is growing. So you can see there that the three main reasons that we bring people into the program. So they'll have some kind of mental health challenge around stress, anxiety that they might have low mood or mild to moderate depression as well. They are identified as being prediabetic or they have type two diabetes, but kind of at a stage where it would respond well to lifestyle change or they've been identified as cardiovascular risk with AQ risk score of around 10 or they are socially isolated. And we offer a program that can be done on a chair or on a mat. And we have created a standardized protocol which is can be replicated by the teachers. We train all over the UK and that is what is happening at the moment. So just go, go down a slide and get. So I mentioned the Westminster study. Um If anyone's interested, you can always drop me an email. I can send you the links or if you just type in yoga for health mixed methods evaluation that study comes up. Plus we put both the published studies on the home page of the yoga and healthcare alliance.com website. Um We were one of those studies which um fortuitously every metric that we took went positively in the right direction to an extraordinary degree. So patient activation, which many of you will be familiar with this is really at the root of patients feeling that they have the skills, health, the skills the knowledge and the confidence to manage their own health. And there were four boxes and 62% of the patients went up two boxes. So that was, that was pretty amazing. There's a great graphic if you dig into the study showing how many people were in boxes, one or two, which is a difficult place to be in terms of managing health and making lifestyle change. And then how many ended up in boxes? Three and four, where people are really actively managing their health in a positive way.