Yoga with Adriene

Okay you made it to the beginning, if you are reading this you are in the right place. X marks the spot. You Are Here. This session is a soft hand reaching out to help you befriend you. Prana as a series is about aligning with the wisdom of your body and being. On Day 1 you will get a taste for holistic yoga practice that takes a therapeutic approach to physical strength, joint health, nervous system resilience, and your mental wellness. Our primary focus is on the breath. Day 1 practice time, 27 minutes. This is the longest session in the series. Slow down and use it to check in with your body, your breathing patterns, and your whole self fully. This practice sets you up so nicely for the rest of the series! It’s soft, it’s inquisitive, it has foundations for subtle body awareness as well as gross body work. Day 1 asks you to be curious about what it feels like to move in this current season of your life.

This is a mental health wellness practice. Full stop. So, while we utilize familiar asana, allow yourself to focus on sensation more than what you think the poses should look like. This might be particularly challenging not to the beginner but to an experienced yogi who perhaps has been practicing asana in the Western world for many years. Remember, the focus on this series is on the prana body. The energetic aspects that help make up who we are. Have you ever met someone that just had “good energy” or have you ever been around someone who had “bad energy” maybe? I am not here to call one thing good or bad but simply to point out that we often respond to energy because it can affect how we feel. From the yoga perspective we are all all connected through this life force, and so tending to our own energy through practice does inevitably have a ripple effect. This mindful practice is 23 minutes long and packed with beneficial moves for the spine, a strong, stable center, healthy digesti

Connection. It is so important to our total well being. This centering practice is all about cultivating an inner landscape for positive and healthy connection. As this experiential series rolls on, our breath inspired movement continues with gentle rigor and focus. Bring a blanket if you like as we will start in a seat for gentle neck and shoulder release and pranayama to build tapas or heat. This 18-minute session includes low back relief, foot massage with pressure points, satisfying stretches, and mudra.

We start standing today in Tadasana, Mountain Pose. With a rooted awareness from foot to crown, our journey continues as we cultivate happy feet and happy joints with footwork and a mobility flow. This session reminds us of the infinite possibilities that arise when we take time for ourselves and true mind body practice. It also reminds us of the power of letting go. This sweet practice is 23 minutes long and builds strength and resilience with an awareness of directional flows of energy in the body. This type of work can reveal when you tend to rush or be stuck in a certain need for speed, shall we say. Slow down your breath, slow down your body. There is no need to blast your nervous system for results you can see and feel.

It’s okay to have fun! High fives all around for this Day 5 session that may begin to reveal the shifts in state that one can feel when you show up for regular consistent practice. Little by little we have honored the body and tapped into our unique beautiful energies while holding regard for our connection to each other. This session offers the opportunity to build strength through poses like forearm plank, and to surrender in poses like heart to earth pose. This therapeutic practice is 19 minutes long and is a hug for body and soul. Drop me a line in the comments, I want to know you are here!

Reimagine your relationship with your core! This Day 6 yoga practice is influenced by hatha yoga as well as pilates. In this class we continue to guide you in developing a connection with your breath and your deep abdominal muscles. Core work does not have to suck. In fact, I love core work so much, it actually feels good now that I know how to use my breath to effectively and efficiently control my muscles. Remember, little by little. This session is only 17 minutes - you got this! Remember your mantra; I am connected with all things with love and kindness.

The state of relaxed attention is our aim for our final and post precious practice. The main goal of PRANA is to guide you to have more awareness of the subtle body. You matter. The world needs you. Let’s make sure that the ripple that you are sending out into the world is a conscious one. Our final Prana practice is 24 minutes long and plays with directional energy techniques to help align your posture and cultivate a deeper connection with your self/Self. This yoga is a practice of loving yourself and self study.

Day 8, Meditate. A Yoga With Adriene tradition. In this video we take time to reflect on the Prana practice series through a softening to stillness. This soft practice asks, “What connections do you want to strengthen?” “Can you allow the experience and wisdom you experienced to stay with you?” Perhaps in your experience with Prana you have learned to trust your inner wisdom and your body a bit more. As our journey comes to an official loving close, there is opportunity to find a fresh commitment to your practice and to show up for this necessary and valuable time with - you. Again, making sure that the ripple you are sending you into the world is a conscious one! This session is a 10 minute bija or seed practice. A little quiet nugget to mindfully wrap up our experience here together, and one you can come back to again and again - whenever you need some solace and subtle body connection.