Members Vlog January 2024

- 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")