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- Hi everyone.
Welcome to Yoga With Adriene.

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I'm Adriene and this is Benji

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and today we
have yoga for grief.

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So grab a little
blanket if you have one,

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hop into something extra
comfy and let's get started.

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(bright music)

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Hello my darling
friends, welcome.

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We're gonna begin
today's practice in

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a nice, comfortable seat.

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So come on down to the ground.

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Take your time.
There's no rush today.

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This is a nurturing
practice designed to

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support you
wherever you are today.

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So if you're barely
makin' it down to the ground,

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I got your back.

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If you have a
little bit of energy,

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you just know you
need some support,

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a little hug today, something
that's gonna help you move

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through whatever
it is you're feeling,

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I have your back.
So just take your time.

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When you land,
allow your shoulders

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to right away start to relax.

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Just do your best and as
you're ready and willing,

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go ahead and close your eyes and

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allow the sound of
my voice to guide you here.

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First, I'd like to welcome
you to this practice

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and second, I'd like to

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just admire you for showing up.

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Now that you're here,
let's take whatever you need.

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Working to calm
the nervous system.

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(Benji sighs) Benji's nice and
relaxed and here with us

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and together we're just going

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to use the tools
at pranayama and yoga

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to find a little support

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and keep you feeling held.

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So we got this.

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The hardest
part is already done,

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showing up, pressing play,
arriving, leaning in.

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And from this point on, let's
just take one breath at a time.

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So whenever you're ready just
start to deepen your breath.

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You can drop your chin a little.

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Finding just a soft,
easy, reverent bow.

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If you feel emotion,

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that's okay.
That's why we're here.

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To take whatever we need and

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perhaps even leave behind

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some things that we don't,
that we don't need to carry.

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So just gently
noticing the breath.

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By simply bringing
loving awareness to the breath,

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it starts to deepen.

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And in any stage of trauma

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we tend to hold our breath which

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can create a lot of
tension in the body

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and can cause all systems

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to just feel a little frayed.

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So nice and easy,
nothing but an a loving

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awareness in the
breath here to start.

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Easing in.

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Checking in.

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Noticing where you are today.

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One day at a time.

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Wherever you have
naturally placed your hands,

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whether they're on the kneecaps
or the thighs if you feel like

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they're really good there
and you don't want to move,

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you can stay there or I'll
invite you to consider bringing

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the palms
together at your heart.

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We call this
Anjuli Mudra, of course.

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And that's it, homies.
We're just gonna breathe.

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Breathing

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with loving awareness in and out
and just notice what comes up

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and please know that

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this practice is designed
to hold you, to hug you,

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and you are safe
and we'll take it nice and easy.

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So if you've become
a little distracted,

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it's totally normal.

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I'll just gently remind
you to find maybe

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a reverent bow, head to heart.

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Relax your shoulders
down away from the ears.

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Best you can.

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Just depending on
wherever you're at.

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Remember there are so
many different types of people

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practicing this at so many the
different stages of their lives

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around the world
so make it your own.

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But depending on
where you are today,

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see if you can sit
up a little taller.

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And if you can't,
no biggie, it's all good.

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And then again, bringing that
loving awareness to the breath.

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You don't have to force it.

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You don't have to push it.

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But by simply bringing
our loving awareness to it,

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you might be able to catch,
catch one that you need.

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Catch a wave.
Catch a big wave of breath in.

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And out.

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Alright, so far, so good.
You're doing great.

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Take another deep breath in.

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And as you're ready,
a long breath out.

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And then we'll
slowly lift the chin.

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Bat the eyelashes open
if your eyes are closed

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and we're just
gonna interlace the fingertips.

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Wherever you are,
bring the palms together,

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if they weren't already.

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We're gonna interlace the
fingertips and you're just gonna

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take a gentle
stretch of the palms forward.

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And as much as you're willing,
my loves, lift your heart up.

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Take a deep breath in here,

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this time we're
breathing all together.

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All, you, me and all the

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people around the
world practicing together,

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supporting one another.

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And as you breathe out you can
use that as an active cue to

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just drop your
shoulders down a little bit.

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You're doing awesome.

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Let's do one more
breath together here, inhale.

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And exhale.

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Sweet. Now take your
palms press 'em forward,

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big stretch in the arms here.

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We're gonna take the
pinkies forward up and back.

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Big stretch here.

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Lifting up out of
the waistline, reaching.

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Whatever is going
on in your face

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see if you can
soften it, my love.

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Take a deep breath in here.

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Reach, reach, reach.

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And then on the exhale,
break free.

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Wiggle the fingertips, let
them float down to the earth.

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(sighs)

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Nice work.

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Left hand comes to the earth.

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Right hand reaches
up towards the sky.

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Take a deep breath in.

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On the exhale, you're gonna
take your right elbow

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and just kiss it
to your left knee.

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Then inhale, reach up,
spread your fingers.

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And exhale,
round through, chin to chest.

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Right elbow to left knee.

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One more time, big inhale.
Nice and easy.

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It's risky here taking this
expansion but do your best.

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Inhale.

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And a beautiful contraction.

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Elbow to knee, chin to chest.

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Great. Slowly unravel,
come back up.

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Head over heart,
heart over center.

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So aligning back
through the spine.

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Just kind of encouraging
a healthy flow of energy

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up and down the spine here.

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When you're ready, right hand
to the earth and big inhale to

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reach the left
fingertips all the way up.

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Exhale, navel draws in.

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Rounding through the spine,
left elbow to right knee.

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With your breath, inhale.

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Find expansion.
Move nice and slow.

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As slow and as
gentle as you need.

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And then exhale.

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Elbow to knee,
chin to chest, feel that stretch

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in the left low back.

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One more, inhale.

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Spread the fingers, we got this.

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Expansion takes risk but we're
opening our hearts to what is

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here and exhale,
last time, elbow to knee.

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Beautiful, slowly come back up.

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Head over heart,
heart over pelvis.

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The beautiful birds are
chirping outside the window.

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It's gorgeous. Let's take a
big stretch with a big breath.

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Both fingertips now
reaching up toward the sky.

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Inhale in here.

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Exhale, float 'em down.

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If you find it
hard to breathe here,

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think about really using the
tool of this little vinyasa

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to extend the
inhale as you reach up.

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And extend the
exhale as you float it down.

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And there might be one
or the other that feels

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a little more difficult,
just notice.

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Breathing in and
out through the nose

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or in through the nose
and out through the mouth.

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Finding what feels
good for you today.

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And wherever you are
let's do one more round.

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Let's see if we
can do it all together.

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Ready? Here we go.

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Big inhale to reach up.

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And exhale to float
the fingertips down.

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Awesome work.

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Allow your hands to rest

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wherever they
feel most comfortable.

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Palms together, maybe palms
on the knees or the thighs.

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And then just taking a moment
again to relax the shoulders

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and bring that loving
awareness to your breath.

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Sit up tall.

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Soften the skin of
the forehead if you can.

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Remember this
time is devoted to

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meeting you
wherever you are today.

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So it's all good.

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Whatever you're feeling.

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Whatever's going on in here,
don't worry about it.

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Just allow.

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And release.

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And keep coming back to that
loving awareness of your breath.

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We're gonna add a little more
structure now to the pranayama.

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Do your best.

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If it's not
working for you today,

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you'll know why.

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Maybe you're
feeling a little too raw,

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then just do your best.

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And if you're at a place where
you can kind of keep up

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with the ratio then great.

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I think this is a really
helpful tool when we're healing.

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Again because we kind of tend to
hold our breath a lot when we're

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either in trauma or recovering
from a traumatic event.

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And then that causes us to
create more tension in the body.

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And then so all
the stuff gets stored.

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So it's all good.

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We're gonna stay
present with what is today

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and not worry about tomorrow.
Let's do one day at a time.

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So we're gonna
inhale on a four count.

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Let's give it a try,
nice and easy.

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When you're ready,
big inhale for four,

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three, two, one.

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On the one we're
gonna pause for two beats.

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One, two.

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And now we're
gonna exhale for six,

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five, four,

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three, two, one.

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Let's try again,
inhaling in for four.

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Three, two, one.

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Pause, my dear.
Retain for two beats.

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One, two and 
exhale for six, five,

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four, three, two, one.

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Close your eyes if you like.

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Here we go,
inhale for four, three,

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two, one.

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Pause for one and two.

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Long exhale,
my friend for six, five,

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four, three, two and one.

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Let's do one more round,
here we go.

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Inhaling for four, three,

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two, one.

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Pause.

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Big exhale for
six, five, four,

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three, two, one.

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Awesome work.
Let your breath soften.

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Bring your hands together.

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Maybe a cleansing
breath here in and out.

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And then when you're ready,
nice and slow, okay?

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We're going to
come to all fours.

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So take your time.

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Take your time.

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Come to a little
Tabletop Position.

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I brought a little blanky here
with me today just for comfort

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so if you did as well, you
can use it to pad the knees.

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We're just going to
bring in just gentle,

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loving movement to the spine
so a little spinal flexion.

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Spread your hands.

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Bring your knees
underneath your hip points

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and when you're
ready drop the belly.

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Be gentle, open your heart.

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Take a deep breath in.

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And on the exhale chin to chest.

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Just like we did
seated earlier feeling that

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stretch in the low back here.

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Really pressing
away from the earth.

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Contracting navel to spine.

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Inhale, ride the wave of the
breath as you drop the belly.

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And yeah, we open,
we expand the heart,

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the throat,
the chin reaches forward.

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And then after that expansion,
what is natural?

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Natural is this contraction.

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So finding that contraction.

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Inhale, drop the belly, open.

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And exhale, rounding
through the spine, close.

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Pressing away from the earth.

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Nice and slow, inhale to expand.

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And exhale, chin to chest.

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Soften and fold in.

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So I find this
really comforting

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and that's not necessarily to
say that you will too but I love

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that our practice can kind of
teach us how to ride the wave

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of expansion and contraction.

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Open and close.

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Up and down.

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This kind of inevitable
wave that we're asked to ride.

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So if you're finding 
movement a little bit difficult

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or maybe even too basic,
you can give it that...

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You can give it some thought.

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What comes after expansion?
Contraction.

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What goes up must come down.

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Alright, come back
to a nice neutral spine.

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You're going to bump the
hips a little left to right.

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And when you bump
the hips to left go ahead

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and look past
your right shoulder.

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And then when you bump 
the hips to the right go ahead

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and look past 
your left shoulder.

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And you're just
kinda going to do this in

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your own time feeling

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the stretch in the side body.

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Moving with your breath.

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Maybe picking up the pace if it
feels right in your body today

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and if not keep
it nice and slow.

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Alright, stimulating some of the
internal organs here as well.

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Try to keep your toes pinned
to the ground best you can.

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Same with the
knuckles and the fingerprints.

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Alright, then we're
gonna come back to center.

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Nice neutral spine.

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If you're finding it hard to
hold yourself up, no worries.

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Just use the beautiful 
tools of our asana

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to kind of support yourself.

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So press away
from your yoga mat.

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Draw your navel in just a bit.

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Find your center.

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When you're ready we're gonna
kick just the right foot out.

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Kick, kick, kick.

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Take a deep breath in,
spread your right toes.

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And then exhale, 
contract, chin to chest.

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Round it through.

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Then from here you can use
your right hand to guide you but

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you're going to step your
right foot all the way up.

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Excellent.

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Then front knee over 
front ankle, nice and easy.

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Hands gonna come to
the heart as we lift up.

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This is stop one.

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Breathing deep here.

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If this is too much,
keep it nice and low.

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Just getting into
the hips a little here.

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And then of course if 
you like, if you're ready,

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so many different types of
people practicing this together

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all around the
world so listen to,

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it's more than
listen to your body here,

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it's listen to your heart.

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And if it feels right,
you can take the fingertips

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all the way up.

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So wherever you need to be today
be there fully and when you get

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to that spot see if
you can breathe into

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all four sides
of the torso here.

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Feel that really big expansion

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in that brave and
beautiful breath.

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And then we'll release.

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You did great. Awesome.

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No twist here today. (chuckles)

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We're gonna take
the hands to the ground.

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We're gonna slowly
walk the right foot back,

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right to that Tabletop Position.

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Find that nice
neutral spine again.

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Take a deep breath in. Reset.

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Find your sweet
little support system.

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This is what our
asana teaches us.

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And then when you're ready,
kick the left foot back.

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Feel that opening in the front
of the left hip crease first.

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Find your inner support system.

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You got this.
Breathe deep.

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Spread the left toes and
then rounding through here.

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Chin to chest.

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Claw through the fingertips.

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And then we'll step the
left foot all the way up.

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You can use your left hand to 
guide you as much as you need.

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Hands'll come to the heart first
and maybe they'll stay there.

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And if you come up
and it's too much for your

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body today just
stay nice and low.

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Just get into those hips.

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Breathe, breathe, breathe.

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Use your exhale to
relax your shoulders down.

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Front knee over front ankle.

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Body is active.

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If you feel a little tremble,
a little shake, it's all good.

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Totally normal. Squeeze 
the inner thighs together.

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And if you're reaching
fingertips up high,

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well everyone, just take a solid
moment here to see if you can

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find that breath that goes not
just into the front or the back

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but the side bodies,
all four sides of the torso.

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It's brave and it's beautiful.

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Go ahead and give it
your best shot here now.

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Inhale.

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And then use
your exhale to soften.

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Alright, gently
bring your left foot back.

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From here we're gonna bring the
knees as wide as the yoga mat.

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Inhale to look forward.

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And then exhale to send
the hips all the way back.

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Fingertips actively reach
forward here just to start.

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Just open up 
through the shoulders,

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the traps and we're gonna 
melt the heart to the earth.

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Forehead to the mat.

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Take a big, sweet, loving
inhale in through the nose.

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And as you exhale,
melt your heart.

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Now we have a little
compression on the forehead

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which hopefully feels good.

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If you have a blanket you can
use it or just even the firmness

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of the ground should be really
nice to gently rock the head.

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Perhaps a little side to side.

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Getting a little
massage in the brow.

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If you've been in
the grieving process,

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this is gonna feel good.

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I think.

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Now as your thoughts
kind of pick up here,

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it's totally normal.

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I'd like for you to, once again,
bring the loving awareness back

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to your breath and think

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inhale lots of love in.

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Exhale lots of love out.

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Inhale lots of love in.

00:21:45.917 --> 00:21:50.333
Exhale lots of love out.

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Can bring the head
back to stillness.

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We can start to soften
through the fingertips

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if you haven't already.

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Inhale lots of love in.

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Then exhale lots of love out.

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Inhale lots of love in.

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Exhale lots of love out.

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Benji just did a
nice exhale with that.

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Then really feel your
palms pressing into the earth.

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Feel that hand
to earth connection.

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So feel that hand to
earth connection then use that.

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Literally, feel that,
use that to lift your

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heart back up nice and slow.

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And then you don't really need
to look at the video for this.

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You can use the
sound of my voice,

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allow it to guide you,
we're just gonna come to

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lie down nice and easy.

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So if you have a 
blanket you can use it

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to lie down on.
If not, no worries.

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You can, if you're
chilly you can wrap up in it.

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But go ahead and come to
the ground nice and slow.

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When you get there hug your
knees into your chest and give

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yourself a great big hug.

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And close your eyes

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as soon as you feel 
comfortable and just

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feel the support
on your back body.

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Feel your spine

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supported by the earth.

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Your yoga mat has
your back here and so do I.

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And so does this community.

00:23:43.834 --> 00:23:47.917
And this practice is here
for you whenever you need it.

00:23:47.917 --> 00:23:50.432
Along with the
Yoga With Adriene library.

00:23:51.684 --> 00:23:53.250
So take one more
second here to really

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pull your knees into your chest.

00:23:54.667 --> 00:23:57.662
Feel your spine supported, held.

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Your yoga mat has your back.

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And then when you're ready
just allow the feet to come to,

00:24:05.291 --> 00:24:08.000
oh sorry, buddy, the
edge of your yoga mat.

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Toes are gonna
turn in just a bit.

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Left hand comes to the heart,
right hand comes to the belly.

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If it's in your body today to
lift the corners of the mouth

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just slightly
into a little smile,

00:24:22.875 --> 00:24:23.917
please welcome that.

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Lifting the
corners of the mouth.

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Taking a couple

00:24:28.562 --> 00:24:30.965
final breaths here to just

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relax the weight of your body.

00:24:32.375 --> 00:24:34.792
We have an internal
rotation of the hips here.

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So belly is soft.

00:24:37.417 --> 00:24:39.417
Groin is soft.

00:24:41.166 --> 00:24:44.417
Knees have fallen
in towards each other.

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We're lifting the
corners of the mouth.

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We're supported.

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And here we go. Ready.

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Inhale lots of love in.

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Don't think, just breathe.

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Exhale lots of love out.

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Two more, we got this.

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Inhale lots of love in.

00:25:05.792 --> 00:25:08.724
And exhale lots of love out.

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Final breath here.

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Inhale.

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And exhale.

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As you're ready
bring the palms together.

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Thumbs to third eye.

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Relax your jaw.

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You can keep the
feet where they are.

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If you want you can
extend the legs out long.

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Just take one more
quiet moment to yourself.

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And give thanks for it all.

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I thank you so much
for sharing your time

00:25:45.875 --> 00:25:47.102
and your energy with me

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and your willingness
to make it beautiful.

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If you need us, Benji
and I will be here any time.

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Just sign on to 
Yoga With Adriene or

00:26:00.353 --> 00:26:02.795
the Find What Feels Good 
membership and we'll be there.

00:26:02.795 --> 00:26:04.208
I love you guys.

00:26:04.208 --> 00:26:06.160
Take good care.

00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:08.836
Let's whisper,

00:26:08.836 --> 00:26:10.744
"Namaste."

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(bright music)