Sir Paul McCartney has claimed that eye yoga has helped his vision after first discovering the practice on a trip to India in the late 2000s.
Talking about the unusual form of exercise, the legendary musician, 78, admitted that it can ‘look a bit weird’ but he is able to read the newspaper without glasses.
Speaking to Jessie Ware on her Table Manners podcast, Paul said: ‘I learned off some yogi in India. He explained that your eyes are muscles. Your ears aren’t, so you can’t exercise your ears. But your eyes, you can.’
Amazing: Sir Paul McCartney has claimed that eye yoga has helped his vision after first discovering the practice on a trip to India in the late 2000s (pictured recently)
Explaining some of the exercises, The Beatles legend likened it to the Union Jack shape, he continued: ‘So head still, and then you look up as far as you can, one, two, three, go back to the middle, then down, back to the middle.
‘You do three lots of that then go to the left and the right. Now you’ve got a cross, up and down, and sideways, now you do the diagonals.’
Talking about how eye yoga has helped his vision, Paul added: ‘It all makes sense. I don’t know if that’s why I don’t need glasses when reading a newspaper.’
The musician also revealed that he created eye yoga instructions for a friend’s daughter, which ‘improved her eyesight’, and stopped her from getting glasses ‘for a few years’.
Exercise: Talking about the unusual form of exercise, the legendary musician, 78, admitted that it can ‘look a bit weird’ but he is able to read the newspaper without glasses (pictured in 2019)
To which Jessie attempted the practice with Paul joking: ‘Anyone looking through the window would think we’re mad. It’s a seance! It can look a bit weird.’
This isn’t the first time Paul has praised eye yoga and in 2009 he said, according to the Mirror: ‘When I was in India there was a guy at one of the hotels who offered to teach me eye yoga exercises.
‘He told me eyes are muscles are just like any other muscles and they need exercise to keep them working properly.
‘Spending so much time at computers or the TV or reading books we are only using one set of muscles in our eyes. The yoga gives a workout to the other ones.’
Podcast: Speaking to Jessie Ware, pictured at Tuesday’s BRIT Awards, on her Table Manners podcast, Paul said: ‘I learned off some yogi in India. He explained that your eyes are muscles. Your ears aren’t, so you can’t exercise your ears. But your eyes, you can.’
Paul has often been left inspired from his trips to India and The Beatles famously learnt transcendental meditation and wrote 48 songs during a visit in 1968.
The Beatles, made up of Paul, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon, penned many of their songs for their famous White Album during their stay at the ashram.
Elsewhere, Paul released new album McCartney III in December, having written and recorded it during lockdown.
In a BBC chat with actor Idris Elba, the crooner admitted he ‘didn’t realise’ what he was creating when he did it.
He said: ‘[In] lockdown everyone cleaned out their cupboards and did all the stuff they’d been meaning to get around to. So [making an album] was my equivalent.
‘I wasn’t trying to make an album. So suddenly I had these 10 songs, I thought, “What am I going to do with these?” It was just the 10 because I didn’t know I was making an album.’
Paul went on to explain why he named his album McCartney III, saying: ‘I realised, because I played them myself, I’d done McCartney I and McCartney II in the same vein, that this would be McCartney III. So then it was like, “OK, I see what I’m doing now.”‘
Memories: Paul has often been left inspired from his trips to India and The Beatles famously learnt transcendental meditation and wrote 48 songs during a visit in 1968 (pictured in 1963)