- Hello everyone and
Happy New Year!
Adriene here.
This is your first Find What Feels Good members vlog
of the new year.
How are we doing?
Thank you so much for tuning in.
As you experience this vlog, I'd love to invite you to just
take a deep breath in wherever you are.
And a long breath out.
And know that right now in this moment,
I am sending you my best wishes
for a beautiful 2024.
That's right, we have kicked off the new year,
hopefully together.
And if not on the mat yet,
maybe this will be a lovely motivation,
a little gentle loving push
in that direction if that serves you.
If not, I'm just so grateful that you're here to connect
with me through this moment here with the vlog and
hopefully through some other content here on the app.
It will be very difficult for me to make this vlog about
anything other than the current 30 Day Yoga Journey
however.
So most of you are probably aware that we have a brand new
30 Day Yoga Journey that is releasing as we speak.
Many of you are in the first week of this rollout.
And if you're not yet,
it is not too late to join the community,
join the parade and hop along Cassidy
because this is like the first week,
so you still have an opportunity to dive in and
kind of practice in real time as we like to say.
There's nothing like doing this program in real time,
meaning as it's uploading,
as it's rolling out.
So there's just something that's kind of akin,
of course very different, but for me,
kind of like why I think I love
live classes and why I love the theater.
And just any gathering of
people that becomes sacred because of the fact that
you're doing it in real time with each other,
showing up to be present,
and that that collective group of people makes it what it is.
That is like one of my biggest interests and passions.
So I love gatherings for that reason.
And although this is a virtual gathering, of course,
it is pretty cool to do it in January with everyone,
myself included.
So, because it's new, right?
It's just, we've never done this before,
this exact configuration of things.
And then of course it's there for you all year long.
This opportunity, this gift,
this offering does not expire, go away.
So those of you who are new to
Yoga With Adriene or Find What Feels Good,
it'll be there for you all year long
and the idea is that you,
yes, take the challenge to do it in January in 30 days,
but as I've said for many years,
or do it in 365 days.
It's so heartwarming and
beautiful to see people post and share in December,
like, "Well, it took me 12 months, but I did it."
"By golly, I did the 30 Day Yoga Journey."
And then it just depends on what season of life you're in,
right, because there are also people
who I enjoy seeing their comments,
their shares of, you know,
they're doing all of the 30 Days since
the very beginning and that they've really used
those as a great opportunity,
a little impetus to get back to the mat and create that daily
practice and cultivate that
relationship with at-home yoga that I obivo,
obviously believe in to be very
powerful and healing and special and important.
I think it's really important that we take the time and
carve out the space to be with ourselves
and to love ourselves
and care for ourselves in an authentic way.
And by authentic, I don't mean like,
buzzword authentic,
but I mean in a way that really serves you in the moment.
So that's kind of what our
whole ethos here in Find What Feels Good is all about.
So on that note,
if you haven't signed up for Flow,
a 30 Day Yoga Journey yet, it's not too late.
If you're on your first week of the journey, yay!
High five, awesome work.
We have quite a ways to go,
but my pro tip for you,
and I'm sorry if those of you who've been in the community
for a long time have heard me say this a million times,
but it's just, dude,
it's just what it comes down to is,
the hardest part of the whole
thing is just gonna be showing up.
So my pro tip for you is no matter what,
no matter how you're feeling,
no matter what's going on in your day,
if you are healthy (laughs) and well enough to,
of course, show up.
Play the video, play it from beginning to end,
and be there with us, be there with me,
be there with yourself, take that time,
because a really cool, bomb ass
thing that happens in 30 Day Yoga Journey is you realize,
yes, it's a beautiful thing to learn
the physical vocabulary and even the breath technique,
and see how that grows and evolves,
changes with the consistency of showing up every day,
but what you also get is a very
advanced opportunity to learn
or relearn what yoga's all about.
And I could tell you what that is,
but it's almost like you have to
experience it for yourself.
But for those who are more
literal minded and need and want a little something more,
I will just say that you begin
to realize that it really is not about the poses,
it's about the time and the connection
and your energy.
It's about how you're connecting to your energy
every single day, which by the way,
is what this 30 Day Yoga Journey is all about.
So you may think it's all about vinyasa,
but those who are already a
week in have probably realized by now it's about energy.
And I think that's pretty important.
That's a pretty important thing
to point our attention towards right now,
especially at the beginning of the year.
Alright, so as a Find What Feels Good member,
you are going to receive in a
couple of days after the upload of this vlog,
an opportunity to see behind the scenes of Flow,
A 30 Day Yoga Journey.
We've done a couple of these in the past,
and this one's really special.
I feel like you get a great opportunity to go
behind the scenes with us and see how
this differs from regular Yoga With Adriene,
and then obviously from Find What Feels Good app content,
because it really is, it's such a massive project
that we really do have to kind of go out and hunker down,
dial it in so that we can do it the way we want to do it too.
And by that, I mean like with our hearts.
(chuckles)
So it's really fun peek behind the curtain, I think.
But this one is also really special,
because in this video,
I share with you guys, members first,
and I'm sure it'll trickle out
beyond the Find What Feels Good membership soon,
soon after but this is the 10th
30 Days, see I'm getting flustered already,
'cause change is hard.
This is the 10th 30 Day Yoga Journey that we've ever done.
And so this is, yeah,
Flow is the 10th time we've done this project.
And when I was sitting here before pressing record,
trying to think of all the 30 Days that have come before it,
I was actually having a hard time.
I was like missing one.
(laughs) And I'm like,
maybe that is a sign that says to me,
it is time.
It is time to find the next project.
And before you panic or start to get uncomfortable,
remember that deep breath we
took at the beginning of this video,
take another one and let's pay
attention to why this is the last 30 Day yoga journey, okay?
This is the last one, at least for now,
until I'm like,
"Oh, I missed that. Let's go back."
But this is such an important project because it really
launched the Yoga With Adriene community into what it is today.
Chris and I started the channel,
got hardly any views whilst
doing consistent videos every week.
And it was such a beautiful
time because we were just doing it because it was a
passion project and we wanted to experiment.
And then in 2015,
when we did the original 30 Day Yoga Journey,
which by the way, was after a 29-day journey that
we did off YouTube that our OG FWFG family,
we have actually FWFG founding members,
that's people who were around for Reboot.
They'll remember that. But in 2015,
we did the first 30 Day Yoga Journey on YouTube,
which is basically we took all of our findings
and gatherings from the Reboot experience,
which we poured so much love into that, you guys.
One day maybe we'll do a little
docu-style video of maybe all the 30 Day Yoga Journeys just
for us to have here 'cause it's really fun to think about.
And I think you guys would enjoy hearing all the stories,
how far we've come from me
going over to Chris and Hilah's house,
working at all hours of the night,
scoring the music myself in the edit bay for Reboot while
Chris was editing all the other hours of the night.
(laughs) You know, it was like,
we still had our day jobs then.
So it was really fun.
And we didn't have any equipment.
You know, it was like,
we'd never done anything like this before.
And at the last moment, we added a Facebook group for
that Reboot program and
it became the Find What Feels Good founding members,
which then became an incredible community,
which then has, of course, grown and grown and grown.
And, you know, all the way 'til we meet here today.
But after Reboot, we did 30 Day Yoga Journey,
the first one, the original.
And that is really when we started seeing the
community grow and we started seeing,
like, holy moly, numbers and views and
engagement and comments and stories and making connections
with real people that we have then become friends with and
been in community with now for 10 years.
So that was kind of
the beginning of us really
committing to Yoga With Adriene in a more robust way.
Kind of having this new belief
system about what these videos and what,
particularly the 30 Day program
could be for us and do for us as a community.
So it's really been an incredible project.
After the 30 Days of Yoga, the original one,
we did a program called Yoga Camp. (chuckles)
That's a 30 Day journey where
I bring in all of these affirmations.
Each day as an affirmation.
These are all lessons that my mom passed down to me and
so I built them into physical practice.
It's still one of my favorite 30 Day Yoga Journeys,
Yoga Camp.
And I was so nervous too because I was like,
"Oh, I'm gonna get eaten alive. Nobody's gonna like this."
They're all gonna think,
oh, power of thought, power of word.
But I was like, but I'm gonna try it
anyway 'cause I was feeling,
you know, I was feeling the spark.
And it, to this day,
ends up being one of the favorites.
So I just think it goes to show we're all kind of
craving those tools deep down,
potentially, not everyone.
Then we did Revolution, which I was originally gonna
call "Yoga Town" following
Yoga Camp and due to just where we were,
particularly in my country at the time
and just all of these things, I remember being on the phone
with Chris, who had a new baby, and just asking like,
"Hey, are you cool if I change the name of this thing?"
We hadn't started filming it to
Revolution and just kind of like change my whole lesson
plan a little bit to
accommodate that change and he was like, "Go for it."
So that was Revolution.
After that we did True.
Then in 2020, we did 30 Days of Home,
which of course that was when we all went into lockdown.
So even I was wondering, am I clairvoyant?
But all jokes aside,
that ended up being a really powerful thing.
I was in New York in January 2020,
sharing Home, the 30 Day Yoga Journey,
you know, on the Today Show and all of
these different things and then not but two months later,
we were all stuck at home.
So it was really nice to have that 30 Day Yoga Journey to
share with people and
just offer a little something.
Then in response to 2020, we had 30 Days of Breath,
which is a pretty important
30 Day Yoga Journey for me personally and it was made
with a lot of love and
just an effort to try to see people better,
to ask myself and the team,
like how do we keep showing up in a way that helps more
people feel seen and how do we do that well?
And so, yeah, and then there's also just like an incredible
amount of wonderful breath technique in that one.
Then followed by Move,
which is really about the brain,
that 30 Day Yoga Journey is all
about kind of the neuroscience
behind our practice.
Then we did Center
and now we're doing Flow
and this will be the last 30 Day Yoga Journey.
And it's been 10 years and I kind of just wanted to
take you through that because again,
like I said, I could hardly remember all of
them just right before I pressed record and I'm not
ending the 30 Day Yoga Journey
to abandon anyone. (chuckles)
I'm actually doing it so that myself and the team,
we can start to try on new
things with you, okay?
For you in honor of us and what we've built here.
So instead of doing the same
project that we started 10 years ago,
yeah, just changing it up a little bit,
allowing ourselves the time and the space and the freedom to
explore what other projects we could create,
how we could upload them and offer them,
maybe doing more live events,
maybe connecting different
series with different people
or maybe it's a whole other,
yeah, I have lots of ideas.
I have, we already have some pretty
cool things in the works specifically for the app,
but in terms of yoga for all, Yoga With Adriene,
I think we are not going anywhere and I think we're
still really interested in how we utilize and offer the best
of ourselves to people in the Yoga with Adriene community
and how that continues and can continue to grow in an
exciting and fresh and beautiful way.
And if I don't feel excited or
fresh or beautiful about the project,
it's telling me that it might be time to shift.
Now, is this an easy decision?
No, especially with this rolling out right now,
I'm like, "Let's not say this is the
"last one and just keep it open."
But because this project
actually starts so early in the year,
believe it or not, because it's,
we film like 34 videos,
I think total, and all those videos get
through edit bay and we need a location,
we carve out the time and it's just,
many of you know already what a massive project it is,
so it really frees up months of
our time to make new things and try to,
like yeah, just try different things on.
And, you know, we can always go back (laughs)
if we end up wanting to do that,
which maybe we do.
But I think that's one thing
I wanted to share with you guys kind of early on in the
journey because maybe it's
just enough to inspire you to go,
sorry, inspire you to go, "You know what?
"I wanna do this one in real time,"
in which case, it's not too late,
you can hop in today.
I'll put the sign up in the
description of this video just in case,
but you know, you guys, you get an ad free here on the
app and we do upload these videos here a little bit
earlier than the YouTube
for my friends in the,
in the...
I was gonna like, I was gonna bust into an accent
there and I just got tripped up because I was like,
I don't wanna do a bad accent right now,
but we upload early for friends
in other parts of the world and yeah, that's it.
You heard it, you heard it from me.
This is gonna be the last one for now.
And I can't wait to create new things with you guys.
Because you have to understand I am
blessed to get to work with other creative people
and I really am my best self and
feel my best when I'm getting to be creative and it's been
so fun creating 30 Day Yoga Journey.
I mean, really, I'm so proud of Chris and I and I'm so blessed
and so proud of the whole team,
what we've cultivated with this project.
I know it's inspired so many people.
I know it's inspired other people to create their
journeys and challenges and you know,
when we started, this just was not happening.
So I feel really proud and happy that we've been able to
do this and I'm so excited about what I hope you guys
feel and discover in this last 30 Day Yoga Journey.
You know, I made it knowing
all the while that this was the last one.
So to me, it just has,
it just has a little bit of,
I'm gonna cry,
depth, like emotional depth,
but also, yeah, we're talking about energy.
And I mean, just think about it.
Think about how you feel when you don't feel in alignment,
when you feel out of whack or off center,
out of your flow.
You don't have the energy to do anything.
You may have all these beautiful intentions,
but what good is it without
that freedom and ease of
energy flowing and moving in
a balanced manner to help you, you know,
actually play out the life of your wildest dreams.
So I wish that for you and for all of us.
And so I hope to see you on the mat for Flow and you will get
a little behind the scenes and
a little bit more of the why of the story,
although I just, (laughs)
I don't know how much more you want after all I just said,
but there is a beat in that video about,
is this the final day yoga,
is this the final 30 Day Yoga Journey?
And now you know.
You know the answer ahead of anyone.
So, okay.
Let's see. Oh my gosh, I talked for a long time.
New calendar will be available after the 30 Days.
The free yoga calendars continue.
The new uploads here on the app continue.
The only thing that's changing is instead of spending half
the year doing the 30 Day Yoga Journey,
I'm gonna be making tons of new cool stuff for you guys.
And then also continuing to roll out
free videos on Yoga With Adriene YouTube channel.
So, yeah, got an event already on the book.
So just stay tuned guys, stay tuned.
I'm gonna do a little, like, roulette
with my friend's book.
This is Yung Pueblo's first book
that he wrote, I believe, "Inward".
And I'm thinking maybe in the next vlog,
I might share a little bit about my wedding
because some folks said they were curious.
If you're like, "Mm, great."
I promise not to share too much, but Yung Pueblo,
the man behind the pen name
Yung Pueblo, actually officiated our wedding.
So it feels sweet to maybe
share something from his first book "Inward" with you.
Let's see what we get today.
Here we go.
This one's on page 139.
"Self-love is a sincere
"acceptance of the past.
"An agreement to make the most of the present and a
"willingness to allow the best to occur in the future,
"wholehearted."
"Self-love is a sincere acceptance of the past.
"An agreement to make the most of the present and a
"willingness to allow the best to occur in the future,
"wholehearted."
I love that for us right now.
I love this for the whole revealing of the last 30 Days
and all my love to you and
get on the mat for Flow and Happy New Year.
This is so great.
I'll share this, of course, in the description as I always do.
And I wish you a very happy, gorgeous, beautiful new year.
I'm sorry this vlog was so long.
I'll try to keep them tight, tighter in the future.
I will see you on the mat and
I will see you back for February's vlog.
Don't miss it.
Always love hearing from you in the comment section below
and also in the community tab here on the FWFG app.
Thank you so much for being here.
I love ya.
Happy New Year! (blows kiss)
Benji cam.
I just called Benji from downstairs.
Let's see if he comes.
Come on, bud. (whistles)
It's the first Benji cam
of the new year.
Here he comes, everybody.
He's a good guy.
He's the sweetest little guy
in the world.
Say Happy New Year.
Hey, bud, Happy New Year.
Benji.
Happy New Year.
We love ya. We love ya.
Happy New Year.
That's a good spot. That's a good spot.
Benji cam, everyone.
See you on the mat.
(gentle version of "Auld Lang Syne")