Partner Resources and Videos

WheelPower have created a series of 15 minute videos for wheelchair users to enjoy yoga from heir own homes. Yoga is a safe and effective way to increase strength, flexibility and your balance that can lead to improvements in both your physical and mental wellbeing.

As a wheelchair user, the benefits of yoga can be seen in your mind, body and spirit. These can include;

• Increased flexibility & coordination
• Improving muscle strength, tone and balance.
• Minimises the chance of injury.
• Reduces stress
• Feel healthier and more energised.

Nina Boswell Brown, from sittingfityoga.com will be your instructor as she demonstrates, explains and guides you through a gentle warm up, before showing you how to complete the yoga poses in a safe and effective way.

The British Gymnastics Foundation have made their seated activity programme, Love to Move, available online. This programme is designed to get older people moving and functioning better and consists of videos and a downloadable booklet.

The programme integrates the use of gymnastic foundation skills, cognitive stimulation therapy and social interaction activities. The majority of the programme is based on bilaterally asymmetrical movement patterns, essentially working the left and right sides of the brain separately, which benefits older people and those living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment.

10 Today is a programme of short 10 minute routines to get you stretching and moving within your own homes. They are led by an instructor and are simple, easy to follow, and fun!

You can watch videos of the routines via the 10 Today website, or tune in and listen to them via the radio.

Find out more by watching the video below.

Get Yourself Active is a programme funded by Sport England and led by Disability Right's UK. They work alongside disabled people and disabled people's user led organisations (DPULOs) to lead change in the social care, health and sport sectors, in order to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for disabled people and to help them to get active in a way that is right for them.

They have created an online hub of exercise videos and resources to support individuals with a disability to get active at home during the pandemic and beyond. Click the link below to find out what you can get involved in!

From the charities behind the We Are Undefeatable campaign, #MakeYourMove is a new physical activity video series, designed to help you stay active in a way that works for you and your health condition.

The videos will help you find ways to move more, that are fun, engaging, motivating and effective- and you don't need any experience or equipment to get started!

There are 6 different physical activity sessions, each around 15 minutes each and with a chance to take pauses throughout. Each one can be tried independently of the others. People can try any of them in any order. No experience of exercising or specific activity is needed – all levels are catered for. The sessions are:

1. Dance with Anne
2. Energy with Alex
3. Balance with Sandra
4. Strength with Alex
5. Boxing with Michelle
6. Mindfulness with Sandra