Yoga With Adriene

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey Here we are, at the end of the journey. For our final CENTER session - I invite you to practice alongside me, and thousands of others in the same moment in a new way. What does that mean? It means, you won’t follow my verbal instruction today, nor should you feel the need to match my moves. *You are the leader today. I am your friend practicing at my own pace alongside. This session is different - and yet, in my mind, the perfect way to seal our journey. Use the vocabulary you have to show up, to shift, to root, to flow and find a big hug. Use this session to listen, to rinse, unwind, stretch, be kind. Enjoy the opportunity to connect to your heart, your corazón. Find your gaze, cultivate play, explore and restore! And with pleasure, find freedom, melt, move and align with what matters most.. The goal of this session is not for our practice to match - but for us to celebrate our connectedness through our individuality and truth. Set the intention to return to center. That is what this journey is all about. I find that this is the day to remember… In every end is a new beginning. And it has never been more true. This series was an unfolding, a revealing, and an opportunity to commit to daily self-exploration. I hope you have discovered, uncovered, and leaned in deeply to your precious self. I hope your body is alive, your breath - a song, and your heart at peace. Thank you so much for showing up and sharing this unique and incredible experience of our time with me. I love hearing from you in the comments, thank you for sharing below! YWA offers free yoga calendars each month! Visit www.yogawithadriene.com to sign up for my monthly letter - or visit the calendar tab each month to receive your playlist and downloadable calendar! Let’s keep going!

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey In this session, I celebrate you for arriving at the mat with the courage to be who you are and to come with whatever you are carrying. Find the freedom in the form, and remember, the invitation here is for you to fully be you. As we near the end, I would like to take a moment to thank you for your trust. It is not something I take for granted. Secondly, I want to lift you up and send you my utter respect and love because you are doing this. Whether you do this in 30 days for 365 - it does not matter.

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey Today is the second to final practice of this journey, and it is all about pleasure! My advice to you is this, “don’t decide where it ends.” Whatever that means to you, take it to the mat! **I want to give you the heads up that tomorrow we will be meeting as usual, but you can expect something new. You can expect a fresh opportunity to let your practice be a true culmination that is emblematic of what I feel yoga is all about - and why it is the most wonderful tool for a meaningful life of centered living. In other words, expect tomorrow’s final practice to be different!

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey The connection that may occur in these last five days will be special and truly unique to you. Don’t forget, showing up for yourself in this way does have an impact. Big or small, the impact it has on your health and happiness is transformational. We will ask some questions today to support you in your contemplation on your journey. So come along dear one, as we move from unconscious breathing patterns to conscious ones.

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey Yin represents softness. It embodies a contemplative energy, one that is nurturing sensitive, quiet, slow and introverted. This may be the most valuable practice of your journey. For it is not always the hardest, fastest, strongest practice that pays off. Today we invite slow, we welcome smooth and we remember the power of ease with each calm nourishing breath. Let’s tap into what home feels like? This is the home stretch!!

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey Notice what emotions have been stirring within you lately. We come to the mat, we learn the poses, we remember the breath. As we start moving our bodies in new ways we notice a stirring. We are curious, we explore. As we stir things up on the mat, we create new pathways that can lead to new habits. Keep coming back to the breath. Hear it. Listen. Feel it. For it will guide you to make the most incredible discoveries.

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey It’s Day 25! A practice that celebrates the power of love. What does it look like to do things with love? What does it feel like? This session is a schooling in loving awareness. Each cycle of breath is, “ I love you.” This is not a practice to give up on. You mustn’t! The journey continues. Only 5 days more after this! Dive back in. The practice is love. Love is the practice.

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey This is a shorter practice that invites you to connect to courage on the mat. Through my yoga I have learned how to make courage a daily practice. This feels like utmost importance for me and the way I want to show up for myself, my community and the world. This session builds strength throughout the backside of the body, as well as tones and strengthens the abdomen. It’s also practices like these that are designed to support you in not just surviving, but to support you in the belief of yourself. Remember, this is a come-as-you-are situation. No need to have the energy or be in the mood. Get to the mat, and together, we will move through it.

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey These practices are designed to help you learn and experience the way in which everything is connected. While this practice targets the shoulders, chest, neck and upper back body - continue to see the body as one moving part. Research has proven that daily movement can be powerful medicine for anxiety and depression. We have the science to back up the myriad of benefits of mindful breath work, especially when practiced with consistency. And, I have said it before but I will share again that strength training with less pain and more joy has provided me with a relationship with my body that I never ever thought possible. Remember, this is a come as you are situation. Get out of your head and into your body, let’s move! I love hearing from you in the comments, thank you for sharing!

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey Ground in your gaze. This practice allows us to reconnect and balance our mental, physical and emotional energy states through a training of the gaze. I have learned firsthand that training your gaze to serve your nervous system so that you feel that the world is working for you instead of against you - is one of the amazing benefits of regular yoga practice. What are you choosing to give your focus to? Remember, where attention goes, energy flows.

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey Using your time on the mat to tap into your intuitive and creative side is medicine for the mind, the body, and most certainly, the soul. I am honored to be your guide. This practice invites you into a safe space to practice, play and nurture a deep listening to your creative expression. Learn to do this on the mat, and you will learn how to dance with life off the mat. It is not about perfection, it is about keeping all possibilities open!

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey This 17-minute low-to-the ground practice is a perfectly timed restorative session. It is short, it is so very sweet, and it offers a chance for you to ease in and out of practice no matter how your day or your life is going on right now. Bring a blanket and or a pillow to the mat today if you have them. No worries if not.

CENTER - A 30 Day Yoga Journey Today is about celebrating the physical, mental, and emotional conditioning you have cultivated and experienced thus far. By now, you may have noticed the ways in which some of the poses are starting to feel different. There are days where your body is tired. Those days will exist, and it is on those days we ask the mind to focus and be strong. On other days you will notice poses that were once unstable and shall we say humbling - are now sturdier, engaged with a greater sense of ease. The body feels stronger. The strength may also come from having the courage to know when to rest. This is when our emotional state takes priority and is considered. It is important to remember that strength comes from showing up, not from any one singular approach but from a commitment to cultivating a regular or daily practice of centering.