WEBVTT 00:00:00.467 --> 00:00:01.802 - Hello, my darling friends. 00:00:01.802 --> 00:00:04.471 Welcome to Home, your 30-day yoga journey. 00:00:04.471 --> 00:00:06.506 Today is Day 12. 00:00:06.506 --> 00:00:08.675 Today I'm gonna invite you to bring a blanket to class if you 00:00:08.675 --> 00:00:10.473 have one, if not, no worries, 00:00:10.473 --> 00:00:14.314 because today we focus on nurturing. 00:00:14.314 --> 00:00:15.472 Let's get started. 00:00:17.845 --> 00:00:22.000 (upbeat gentle music) 00:00:35.802 --> 00:00:38.472 Alright, let's begin today's session in 00:00:38.472 --> 00:00:39.873 a comfortable seat of your choice. 00:00:39.873 --> 00:00:41.775 Come on down to the ground. 00:00:41.775 --> 00:00:46.046 You can lay your blanket out like I have here or just keep it 00:00:46.046 --> 00:00:47.381 off to the side for now. 00:00:47.381 --> 00:00:49.808 We're gonna sit up really tall. 00:00:50.784 --> 00:00:52.572 And take a deep breath in. 00:00:53.282 --> 00:00:55.455 And as you exhale, just allow your shoulders to drop, 00:00:55.455 --> 00:00:57.791 really come into the present moment here. 00:00:57.791 --> 00:01:00.193 Whatever you're bringing to the mat remember, it's all good. 00:01:00.193 --> 00:01:02.896 Today's practice is low to the ground and super yummy. 00:01:02.896 --> 00:01:06.233 We're gonna just kind of nurture the body and the spirit even if 00:01:06.233 --> 00:01:09.970 you've had kind of a monkey brain or if you're feeling a 00:01:09.970 --> 00:01:13.774 little stressed, this is gonna be an efficient practice 00:01:13.774 --> 00:01:17.210 to just kind of smooth it all out and 00:01:17.210 --> 00:01:19.513 nurture whatever is going on today. 00:01:19.513 --> 00:01:21.782 So this is what our practice is all about. 00:01:21.782 --> 00:01:23.784 Let's take another deep breath in. 00:01:25.326 --> 00:01:27.821 And exhale, relax your shoulders. 00:01:27.821 --> 00:01:31.258 It's not about kind of sweeping what's going on under the rug so 00:01:31.258 --> 00:01:32.982 you can get your workout in. 00:01:32.982 --> 00:01:37.157 No, the yoga practice is 00:01:37.688 --> 00:01:39.463 unique in that way. 00:01:42.669 --> 00:01:44.905 Close your eyes or soften your gaze. 00:01:44.905 --> 00:01:47.474 Take one more full breath in and as you exhale, 00:01:47.474 --> 00:01:50.877 use that to relax your shoulders down 00:01:50.877 --> 00:01:53.408 and just land in the moment. 00:01:54.114 --> 00:01:57.028 Land here in your practice, own it. 00:02:02.322 --> 00:02:04.992 Excellent, then we'll bring the palms together, 00:02:04.992 --> 00:02:07.194 bow the head to the heart, start to feel that stretch 00:02:07.194 --> 00:02:08.028 through the back of the neck. 00:02:08.028 --> 00:02:09.883 Thank you so much for showing up. 00:02:09.883 --> 00:02:11.531 You guys are just so incredible. 00:02:11.531 --> 00:02:16.403 I can't believe we are actually doing this together, 00:02:16.403 --> 00:02:18.038 going on this journey. 00:02:18.038 --> 00:02:21.575 I never take it for granted so awesome work. 00:02:21.575 --> 00:02:23.797 Enjoy today's session. Inhale in. 00:02:24.378 --> 00:02:26.244 Exhale, lift the head. 00:02:26.244 --> 00:02:29.983 We're gonna come into a shape here where you're gonna want to 00:02:29.983 --> 00:02:34.187 draw your left heel in towards your body and then you're gonna 00:02:34.187 --> 00:02:37.624 shift your weight so that you can take your right heel behind 00:02:37.624 --> 00:02:40.460 you and towards your right glute. 00:02:40.460 --> 00:02:44.898 And if the hips are tight, which they likely are, 00:02:44.898 --> 00:02:48.468 we might have a little trouble dropping this hip down in socket 00:02:48.468 --> 00:02:50.370 but in time we will get there. 00:02:50.370 --> 00:02:53.240 So you can always take your blanket and put it right 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:55.308 underneath this glute to support you here. 00:02:56.923 --> 00:02:58.645 So I've been kind of playing around here, 00:02:58.645 --> 00:03:01.063 showing up for the at-home yoga practice for a while 00:03:01.063 --> 00:03:03.283 so mine's starting to drop here. 00:03:03.283 --> 00:03:06.019 We have this shape that's like I'm posing with Benji 00:03:06.019 --> 00:03:08.455 for like my volleyball photo. 00:03:10.939 --> 00:03:13.627 So find the shape and it should 00:03:13.627 --> 00:03:15.607 feel pretty snugly in that right hip. 00:03:16.797 --> 00:03:18.165 Alright, then we're gonna inhale, 00:03:18.165 --> 00:03:20.067 reach up towards the sky, big breath. 00:03:20.067 --> 00:03:22.035 Exhale, you're going to draw your navel in and up and 00:03:22.035 --> 00:03:23.703 you're going to twist to the left. 00:03:23.703 --> 00:03:26.640 Right hand comes to the outer edge of the left knee. 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:29.229 Left fingertips come to support you behind. 00:03:29.229 --> 00:03:32.012 And then you're gonna play here with that right hip socket. 00:03:32.012 --> 00:03:35.150 You gonna move a little in and out. 00:03:37.417 --> 00:03:40.120 Sit up nice and tall as you breathe in. 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:42.022 And then use your exhale to release. 00:03:42.022 --> 00:03:44.424 We're gonna do a counter- twist now, be very gentle. 00:03:44.424 --> 00:03:46.860 Left hand comes now to the outer edge of the right thigh, 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:48.361 right fingertips behind. 00:03:48.361 --> 00:03:49.763 You're gonna collapse a little bit here. 00:03:49.763 --> 00:03:52.966 So we'll use the inhale to lift the heart as always. 00:03:52.966 --> 00:03:56.169 Find a lift with the breath in and exhale twist maybe looking 00:03:56.169 --> 00:03:58.171 past your right shoulder. 00:04:00.440 --> 00:04:03.677 Wonderful, from here inhale in. 00:04:03.677 --> 00:04:05.245 Exhale to slowly release. 00:04:05.245 --> 00:04:08.048 Keep your right heel coming in towards center. 00:04:08.048 --> 00:04:09.282 We're gonna slowly, mindfully 00:04:09.282 --> 00:04:11.918 keep right toes active as you move here. 00:04:11.918 --> 00:04:15.155 We're gonna extend that right leg and then we're gonna shift 00:04:15.155 --> 00:04:18.758 our hips so that we can face our right toes. 00:04:18.758 --> 00:04:22.195 Head to knee pose, Janusirsansan or your version, 00:04:22.195 --> 00:04:23.810 let's see what happens here today. 00:04:23.810 --> 00:04:26.766 As we inhale, we're going to reach the fingertips up high. 00:04:26.766 --> 00:04:28.401 And I'd like to invite you to 00:04:28.401 --> 00:04:30.704 bend your right knee as you lift up. 00:04:30.704 --> 00:04:31.938 Then think up and over. 00:04:31.938 --> 00:04:36.176 So low belly draws up and in as you drape or work towards 00:04:36.176 --> 00:04:38.278 bringing your belly towards the top of the thigh. 00:04:38.278 --> 00:04:39.846 That was redundant, but you got it. 00:04:39.846 --> 00:04:41.748 Belly towards the top of the thigh. 00:04:41.748 --> 00:04:44.512 And then from here you can work to straighten the leg. 00:04:45.619 --> 00:04:47.687 This should feel nurturing. 00:04:47.687 --> 00:04:50.524 You're wanting to be active and attentive but this should feel 00:04:50.524 --> 00:04:53.656 kind of yummy so you don't need to slam your nose to the knee. 00:04:53.656 --> 00:04:57.616 We're not taking, um, I'm not gonna say that. 00:04:58.441 --> 00:05:00.400 Okay. So I'll stop talking. 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:02.802 Allow you to listen to the sound of your breath here. 00:05:02.802 --> 00:05:04.704 Right knee can be as generously as you need. 00:05:04.704 --> 00:05:07.207 You can interlace the fingertips around the heel 00:05:07.207 --> 00:05:11.845 or keep them close to your center. 00:05:12.943 --> 00:05:15.518 Relax. Wiggle your head, listen to your breath. 00:05:27.260 --> 00:05:30.363 Take one more cycle of breath here, in. 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.801 Use your exhale to roll up and out of the shape. 00:05:35.559 --> 00:05:37.771 Take a second here to just notice how you feel. 00:05:37.771 --> 00:05:39.884 Soften through your right foot. 00:05:42.426 --> 00:05:45.559 And then let's switch. Right heel comes in. 00:05:47.753 --> 00:05:52.538 I think it's a good little tip, 00:05:52.538 --> 00:05:53.687 I think it is a good idea, 00:05:53.687 --> 00:05:55.021 particularly if you're new to the practice, 00:05:55.021 --> 00:05:57.557 just keep your feet kind of active and bright when you're 00:05:57.557 --> 00:05:59.025 moving through different shapes. 00:05:59.025 --> 00:06:00.493 Helps protect the joint. 00:06:00.493 --> 00:06:02.095 It seems like such a small thing, 00:06:02.095 --> 00:06:06.706 but trust me, it's good. It's a good idea. 00:06:06.706 --> 00:06:09.135 So keep those toes active as you bring 00:06:09.135 --> 00:06:12.205 your left heel towards your left glue. 00:06:12.205 --> 00:06:14.975 We're here. Benji, ready for our volleyball photo? 00:06:20.381 --> 00:06:22.943 Just giving everyone a second to get in the shape. 00:06:23.917 --> 00:06:25.986 And then just notice the sensation on the left side. 00:06:25.986 --> 00:06:29.156 What is different there, if anything? 00:06:30.056 --> 00:06:32.919 Okay. Here we go. 00:06:32.919 --> 00:06:35.695 Inhale, reaching all the way up toward the sky, big breath. 00:06:35.695 --> 00:06:39.599 Lifting from the hip creases all the way up through the side body 00:06:39.599 --> 00:06:41.001 and then gentle twist. 00:06:41.001 --> 00:06:43.403 Here we go, left hand to the outer edge of the right knee. 00:06:43.403 --> 00:06:45.585 Right fingertips behind. 00:06:49.242 --> 00:06:51.144 Inhale to lift and lengthen here. 00:06:51.144 --> 00:06:53.980 Exhale to twist. 00:06:53.980 --> 00:06:58.661 Moving the energy here that runs up and down the spine. 00:07:04.958 --> 00:07:06.159 You got to bring the breath. 00:07:06.159 --> 00:07:07.494 Big inhale. 00:07:07.494 --> 00:07:08.374 Lengthen. 00:07:11.149 --> 00:07:11.965 Mhmmm. 00:07:11.965 --> 00:07:14.868 Exhale, slow release. 00:07:14.868 --> 00:07:16.536 Counter-twist. 00:07:16.536 --> 00:07:18.104 Paying attention to that left hip. 00:07:18.104 --> 00:07:22.475 Right hand comes to the outer edge of the left thigh or to 00:07:22.475 --> 00:07:25.308 your dog's head if you have one there. 00:07:25.308 --> 00:07:27.379 And then here we go. 00:07:35.282 --> 00:07:38.792 If you feel like you're collapsed in the spine, 00:07:38.792 --> 00:07:42.162 lift up from the sternum, lengthen through the crown and 00:07:42.162 --> 00:07:43.496 then use your tools. 00:07:43.496 --> 00:07:45.899 Find that upward current of energy through the front body 00:07:45.899 --> 00:07:48.501 and that downward current of energy through the back body and 00:07:48.501 --> 00:07:51.671 see if that changes your shape at all. 00:07:51.671 --> 00:07:55.175 So we're working from the inside out a nurturing, 00:07:55.175 --> 00:07:57.110 holistic practice here. 00:07:57.110 --> 00:07:58.511 Inhale in. 00:07:58.511 --> 00:08:00.623 Use your exhale to slowly release. 00:08:01.874 --> 00:08:04.718 Alright, head to knee pose on the other side. 00:08:04.718 --> 00:08:06.720 You're gonna keep your right heel in. 00:08:08.688 --> 00:08:09.756 Here we go. 00:08:09.756 --> 00:08:13.688 Let's see how can I navigate this. 00:08:13.688 --> 00:08:17.130 Darling angel, excuse me. You mind if I come here? 00:08:17.130 --> 00:08:19.666 Extend your left leg out long. 00:08:19.666 --> 00:08:21.067 That'll do. 00:08:21.067 --> 00:08:23.470 Excellent, and you're gonna turn your center 00:08:23.470 --> 00:08:25.405 and your heart to face your left foot. 00:08:25.405 --> 00:08:27.586 Flex your left toes towards your face. (giggles) 00:08:29.638 --> 00:08:30.266 And here we go. 00:08:30.266 --> 00:08:32.175 Inhale, reach up towards the sky. 00:08:33.213 --> 00:08:36.235 Exhale, oh see know I'm not, okay, 00:08:36.235 --> 00:08:38.467 let me be a better guide here. 00:08:38.467 --> 00:08:39.619 Inhale, reach up towards the sky. 00:08:39.619 --> 00:08:41.621 Thank you for hanging with me, bend your left knee. 00:08:43.656 --> 00:08:45.325 So especially if you've been practicing for a long time, 00:08:45.325 --> 00:08:47.594 you're going to want to just like come here, boom. 00:08:47.594 --> 00:08:50.019 But let's bend the left knee. 00:08:50.019 --> 00:08:53.266 Start with it lifted and then drape over. 00:08:53.266 --> 00:08:55.869 And then from here is where we can find the extension. 00:08:56.846 --> 00:09:00.040 This is just a little bit, in my opinion, healthier. 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:04.544 So we start to stretch through like the belly of the muscles, 00:09:04.544 --> 00:09:06.446 for example, the hamstring versus just 00:09:06.446 --> 00:09:07.982 where the muscles attach. 00:09:10.630 --> 00:09:15.121 Mhmmm, and then come on down to your version of the shape. 00:09:15.121 --> 00:09:18.174 Come into this 00:09:18.174 --> 00:09:20.317 kind of private little love cave here 00:09:20.317 --> 00:09:22.829 and listen to the sound of your breath. 00:09:27.801 --> 00:09:30.843 Feel the skin of the back stretch as you breathe in. 00:09:32.121 --> 00:09:34.088 And the belly, soften as you breathe out. 00:09:37.143 --> 00:09:40.146 Soften the skin of the forehead, relax tongue in your mouth, 00:09:40.146 --> 00:09:42.148 soften the jaw. 00:09:45.518 --> 00:09:49.589 This posture, this asana providing the nurturing effect 00:09:49.589 --> 00:09:51.040 to the nervous system. 00:09:54.460 --> 00:09:56.783 But you have to bring the breath. 00:09:56.783 --> 00:09:58.186 You got it. 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:09.309 Inhale in. 00:10:10.006 --> 00:10:13.396 Exhale, slowly begin to roll it back up. 00:10:16.082 --> 00:10:18.685 Pause. Soften through that foot. 00:10:18.685 --> 00:10:20.019 Let everything go here for a second. 00:10:20.019 --> 00:10:22.021 Just notice how you feel. 00:10:32.599 --> 00:10:34.667 And then we'll release that. 00:10:34.667 --> 00:10:37.971 I'm gonna come now to Cobbler's Pose, Baddha Konasan. 00:10:37.971 --> 00:10:39.973 So now both heels are gonna come in. 00:10:41.708 --> 00:10:46.179 This is a great shape to consider lifting the hips so we 00:10:46.179 --> 00:10:48.681 can roll up the blanket, fold up a blanket, 00:10:48.681 --> 00:10:50.283 excuse me, sit up tall. 00:10:50.283 --> 00:10:53.386 Just give yourself a little more space 00:10:53.386 --> 00:10:55.304 to find length up through the spine. 00:10:56.485 --> 00:11:01.294 Then we'll start by grabbing the ankles and drawing the shoulder 00:11:01.294 --> 00:11:03.730 blades in together and down the back body. 00:11:03.730 --> 00:11:05.498 We've been doing this whole journey, 00:11:05.498 --> 00:11:08.134 so apply, apply here. 00:11:08.134 --> 00:11:10.203 Tops of the thighs get really heavy. 00:11:14.474 --> 00:11:16.636 And we find this lift up through the front. 00:11:16.636 --> 00:11:19.312 And then kind of lean back here as you find this grounding 00:11:19.312 --> 00:11:21.314 energy through the back body. 00:11:24.384 --> 00:11:26.519 Great, inhale in. 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.656 Exhale, bend the elbows, pull them back as if you're like in 00:11:29.656 --> 00:11:32.238 Chaturanga here and we're gonna slowly look 00:11:32.238 --> 00:11:35.648 forward looking into our reflection. 00:11:35.648 --> 00:11:37.897 I always joke this is like that Zoolander moment. 00:11:37.897 --> 00:11:39.899 Like, "Who am I?" 00:11:42.135 --> 00:11:45.838 And then we can move the hands now to the toes. 00:11:45.838 --> 00:11:47.607 If you're practicing in a chilly environment, 00:11:47.607 --> 00:11:50.009 maybe you can warm your toes up here. 00:11:50.009 --> 00:11:52.534 Bend your elbows now left to right. 00:11:53.546 --> 00:11:56.249 And then play here, inhaling to find extension, 00:11:56.249 --> 00:12:00.086 maybe exhaling to fold in toward home, 00:12:00.086 --> 00:12:02.088 in towards yourself, your center. 00:12:06.192 --> 00:12:08.610 Listen to the sound of your breath. 00:12:14.467 --> 00:12:17.057 And trust, trust the practice. 00:12:19.161 --> 00:12:21.283 Trust that it's working. 00:12:21.283 --> 00:12:25.191 Trust that you are being led to the right place. 00:12:29.882 --> 00:12:30.960 Bring your breath. 00:12:45.093 --> 00:12:47.284 Now, you're gonna want to come out here. 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.339 I'd lovingly invite you to stay. 00:12:52.957 --> 00:12:54.432 Stay awhile. 00:12:58.277 --> 00:12:59.712 Three more cycles of breath. 00:12:59.712 --> 00:13:01.231 Count 'em out. 00:13:18.164 --> 00:13:20.133 Move from your middle, draw your navel in. 00:13:20.133 --> 00:13:22.519 Find center and then roll up from there. 00:13:26.172 --> 00:13:29.375 Baddha Konasana, Cobbler's Pose, sit up nice and tall. 00:13:29.375 --> 00:13:30.776 Inhale in. 00:13:32.311 --> 00:13:35.597 And exhale to release. Awesome work. 00:13:35.597 --> 00:13:38.885 So check it out, before we get into their cozy wozies, 00:13:39.877 --> 00:13:41.020 I don't know if I've ever said that in my life, 00:13:41.020 --> 00:13:42.155 okay, great. 00:13:42.155 --> 00:13:45.687 Say it in front of millions of people, Adriene. (chuckles) 00:13:46.308 --> 00:13:48.428 I want to bring you into a Boat Pose. 00:13:48.428 --> 00:13:49.980 What? This is supposed to be nurturing. 00:13:49.980 --> 00:13:52.532 But can we find, we're not gonna do High Boat, 00:13:52.532 --> 00:13:54.934 Low Boat, but can we find a little core connecting? 00:13:54.934 --> 00:13:58.471 Can we bring this kind of yummy layer 00:13:59.385 --> 00:14:00.540 of our theme into it? 00:14:00.540 --> 00:14:05.044 So you can even claps opposite wrist with the hand here as you 00:14:05.044 --> 00:14:08.381 lean back and let it be supportive? 00:14:08.381 --> 00:14:10.450 Or if you're like, "Perfect. I liked this practice, 00:14:10.450 --> 00:14:12.251 "but I just need a little fire in my belly," 00:14:12.251 --> 00:14:14.253 great, take it here. 00:14:16.889 --> 00:14:19.425 Last option would be to grab the shins, 00:14:19.425 --> 00:14:21.427 extend one leg. 00:14:23.062 --> 00:14:25.663 Then bend and extend the other. 00:14:27.867 --> 00:14:33.272 Maybe you extend both, find that sense of calm in this Navasan, 00:14:33.272 --> 00:14:35.608 this Boat shape. 00:14:35.608 --> 00:14:38.010 Or work to find it, right? It could be here. 00:14:38.010 --> 00:14:39.625 "No problem, Adriene, I got it." 00:14:39.625 --> 00:14:40.804 Or here. 00:14:45.384 --> 00:14:47.376 Then find your breath wherever you are. 00:14:50.953 --> 00:14:53.767 And see if you can take three cycles of breath here. 00:15:05.538 --> 00:15:08.341 And then slowly release. 00:15:08.341 --> 00:15:10.452 Grab your blanket. 00:15:10.452 --> 00:15:13.425 Alright little, little Benji. 00:15:13.425 --> 00:15:15.286 You're going to take your blanket. 00:15:16.755 --> 00:15:18.751 Oh, wow. I know. 00:15:20.100 --> 00:15:24.957 We can share it and we're gonna bring the blanket to either 00:15:24.957 --> 00:15:29.858 cover your whole body or you can bring it to just wrap your feet. 00:15:29.858 --> 00:15:34.133 You're just gonna get into a little burrito pose. 00:15:34.133 --> 00:15:38.671 The kids love burrito pose or like the kid in all of us. 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.040 So wrap up like a little burrito. 00:15:41.040 --> 00:15:45.511 Looks like I have a breathing bolster here to lay my head on. 00:15:45.511 --> 00:15:47.747 If you don't have a breathing bolster, 00:15:47.747 --> 00:15:49.080 highly recommended, 00:15:51.020 --> 00:15:52.289 but you have to take care of them. 00:15:52.289 --> 00:15:54.153 Okay. (chuckles) 00:15:55.254 --> 00:15:56.685 Here I go. 00:15:58.624 --> 00:16:00.927 Okay, excellent. 00:16:00.927 --> 00:16:02.929 Come on down to the ground. 00:16:04.263 --> 00:16:06.632 And we want to get comfy here. 00:16:06.632 --> 00:16:09.468 You can interlace the fingertips. 00:16:09.468 --> 00:16:12.872 Bring the hands behind the head, elbows wide. 00:16:12.872 --> 00:16:14.848 Maybe cactus arms. 00:16:14.848 --> 00:16:17.810 Maybe fingertips softly interlace on 00:16:17.810 --> 00:16:21.700 the belly or if you want to come into a traditional, 00:16:21.700 --> 00:16:25.781 sorry I got so relaxed (laughs), traditional Shavasan, 00:16:25.781 --> 00:16:28.491 just allow your hands to rest gently at your sides. 00:16:31.224 --> 00:16:33.265 And then close your eyes. 00:16:35.786 --> 00:16:39.165 And think about the things you would like to 00:16:43.770 --> 00:16:45.490 be held in. 00:16:50.108 --> 00:16:51.516 Think about 00:16:54.752 --> 00:16:57.070 the things, if anything, 00:16:58.084 --> 00:17:00.691 that you would like to be blanketed in. 00:17:06.959 --> 00:17:08.140 Support. 00:17:12.026 --> 00:17:13.209 Creativity. 00:17:17.665 --> 00:17:19.184 Love. 00:17:22.315 --> 00:17:24.966 Sense of camaraderie or community. 00:17:29.181 --> 00:17:33.472 Think of the things that you would like to nurture and be 00:17:34.182 --> 00:17:36.106 nurtured in. 00:17:36.106 --> 00:17:39.625 And let's use this time on the mat to once again 00:17:39.625 --> 00:17:42.495 close the gap between the things that we want, 00:17:42.495 --> 00:17:45.314 that we want to attract and 00:17:45.314 --> 00:17:47.927 what we are experiencing 00:17:47.927 --> 00:17:50.449 in our everyday quality of life. 00:17:55.775 --> 00:17:58.377 If any of that resonates, wonderful. 00:17:58.377 --> 00:18:00.379 If not, don't you worry about a thing. 00:18:00.379 --> 00:18:02.538 Just take a deep breath in. 00:18:04.383 --> 00:18:07.587 And everyone use an exhale to relax the weight of your body 00:18:07.587 --> 00:18:09.889 completely and fully into the earth. 00:18:09.889 --> 00:18:13.225 Please do not underestimate the power of just a few moments of 00:18:13.225 --> 00:18:15.853 stillness here consciously breathing. 00:18:20.666 --> 00:18:22.835 Talk about a moment of self care. 00:18:22.835 --> 00:18:25.127 There's so many of you out there 00:18:25.127 --> 00:18:28.207 I know are caretakers. 00:18:28.207 --> 00:18:31.210 Some of you really intense and beautiful, 00:18:31.210 --> 00:18:33.715 almost heroic caretakers. 00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:39.541 So take just a moment here longer 00:18:39.541 --> 00:18:41.342 to blanket yourself 00:18:43.639 --> 00:18:47.044 in love and support and care. 00:18:47.860 --> 00:18:49.955 Fill your cup. You don't have to do anything. 00:18:51.697 --> 00:18:53.092 Just receive. 00:18:54.100 --> 00:18:55.421 Just allow. 00:19:11.350 --> 00:19:13.531 Bring your awareness to your breath. 00:19:16.422 --> 00:19:19.458 As you're ready, begin to wiggle the fingers, the toes. 00:19:19.458 --> 00:19:21.800 You know you can always pause this video, 00:19:21.800 --> 00:19:23.562 just reach, hit the button and 00:19:23.562 --> 00:19:26.265 then come back into the shape if you want to be here longer. 00:19:28.934 --> 00:19:31.270 We're gonna slowly bend the knees, 00:19:31.270 --> 00:19:33.835 turn to one side, any side, 00:19:33.835 --> 00:19:36.275 and we're gonna press up to seated. 00:19:38.457 --> 00:19:41.280 And you can take your blanket 00:19:42.526 --> 00:19:44.076 and bring it around you. 00:19:46.804 --> 00:19:48.054 And if you don't have a blanket, don't worry, 00:19:48.054 --> 00:19:51.490 you can just use, take the metaphor, right? 00:19:51.490 --> 00:19:53.784 And run with it, baby. (chuckles) 00:19:55.049 --> 00:19:57.739 Of blanketing 00:19:57.739 --> 00:20:01.502 yourself in love and support. 00:20:02.268 --> 00:20:03.302 Let's bring the palms together. 00:20:03.302 --> 00:20:07.139 You're gonna start to move the palms back and forth, 00:20:07.139 --> 00:20:09.595 creating a little friction, a little heat, a little energy. 00:20:09.595 --> 00:20:11.310 Then get a little faster. 00:20:11.310 --> 00:20:12.978 Close your eyes and get a little faster, 00:20:12.978 --> 00:20:15.948 a little faster, a little faster and even faster and then we'll 00:20:15.948 --> 00:20:17.817 bring the hands right to the chest, 00:20:17.817 --> 00:20:21.917 right to the heart and just feel the warmth of your palms there. 00:20:23.122 --> 00:20:23.923 Close your eyes again. 00:20:23.923 --> 00:20:26.770 If you haven't already, tuck the chin just slightly. 00:20:31.097 --> 00:20:35.155 So some days we're gonna be asked to sweat here, 00:20:36.936 --> 00:20:38.819 to work hard, 00:20:39.862 --> 00:20:42.639 but may today's practice remind you 00:20:44.260 --> 00:20:46.770 that each time we show up on the mat, 00:20:48.020 --> 00:20:50.893 particularly with at-home yoga, we have an opportunity to 00:20:53.419 --> 00:20:55.821 welcome in this sense of being nurtured, 00:20:55.821 --> 00:20:57.237 of being met, 00:20:58.330 --> 00:21:01.594 of being supported, held, 00:21:01.594 --> 00:21:06.055 blanketed in love, divine. 00:21:08.574 --> 00:21:12.104 That's a shout out to the Carter Family tune called, 00:21:12.104 --> 00:21:14.273 "Anchored In Love Devine". 00:21:14.273 --> 00:21:16.242 Alright, bring the palms together, 00:21:16.242 --> 00:21:18.511 thumbs up towards the third eye. 00:21:18.511 --> 00:21:19.879 You guys are doing awesome. 00:21:19.879 --> 00:21:22.515 Such an honor and a pleasure to be on this ride with you. 00:21:24.890 --> 00:21:27.063 I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. 00:21:28.092 --> 00:21:30.237 Let's inhale in deeply. 00:21:31.423 --> 00:21:34.875 And exhale, deep bow today, all the way to the earth. 00:21:36.395 --> 00:21:37.618 Namaste. 00:21:39.068 --> 00:21:43.491 (upbeat gentle music)