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- Okay, hi everyone, 
welcome to Yoga With Adriene.

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I am Adriene, and today we're
gonna do a Q & A, based on

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the videos that 
we've done thus far.

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Squeaky chair, sorry.

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Rickety, old, antique chair.

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Okay, so the first question
is from my good friend Hilah,

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and it is a question 
about wrist pressure.

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I'm gonna say 
pressure rather than pain.

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But a little bit of,

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pressure in the wrist 
during Cobra, Bhujangasan.

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And it's a common thing, and
it's a great question because

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if we're feeling pressure in
the wrist, then we need to

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take a chill pill, and we need
to back up off the posture

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a little bit.

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And it's super common, it's
an easy thing to do, to put

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a lot of pressure on the wrist,
because we see people

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all the time, like, going
into these bad-ass, amazing,

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you know, Cobras,
but two things.

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Either they have been practicing
a long time, and they've,

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they've created 
that space and integrated

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from the crown of the head
to the tip of the tailbone,

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so they have a lot 
of space in the spine,

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and the back, and the muscles.

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Everything's working together,
saying yes, space, Cobra.

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That's A.

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B, people are just 
cranking up into that posture,

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you know, no patience, and,

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so it's easy for us to 
wanna do the same thing,

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'cause we see it, 
we're like, oh,

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that's what it's 
supposed to look like.

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So, the kind answer is to 
take a sweet little chill pill,

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and just, maybe 
not go up as far.

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So, I like to do, and I 
can't remember if we did this

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in the video or not.

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If we didn't, 
then I should have.

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But I like to sometimes, turn
my palms face-up in Cobra.

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Just to like really 
check in with my spine and see,

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like, am I working in my back,
or am I, kind of,

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using my arm strength 
to muscle into the posture.

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Again, it's not bad or wrong,
there's no right or wrong

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in yoga, just an experience.

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But, if you're having a 
less than yummy experience

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in your wrist, then try, yeah,
turning the palms face-up

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and just getting that 
sensation back in the spine,

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rather then in the arms.

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Then in due time, we have the
spine integrated, so much so,

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and the muscles strong, so
much so, that we're not putting

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all that pressure on the wrist.

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That was long-winded.

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This is my first question,
sorry I'll try

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to be more succinct.

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I have another question, 
all the way from the

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Czech Republic, 
from Sarah Marie,

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awesome, awesome 
question about digestion.

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And we won't go get all 
personal or get into it,

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but it's a great question,
or a good thing to bring up

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regarding yoga, because 
everyone talks about how yoga

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is so great for digestion and
then, maybe you don't have

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that experience, 
and you're like WTF.

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So, the first point I wanna
make, that I thank you Sarah,

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for bringing this up, is,

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everyone is gonna have 
a different experience,

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and some of them are 
gonna be vastly different.

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So this is great.

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Yoga is not just one cure, 
you know, for everyone.

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So, that said, though, 
it's hard for me to answer

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your question without knowing,
like, what kind of yoga

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you're doing and like, 
what you've been up to.

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So, if you wouldn't mind 
on this video, or I'll also

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respond to you on the website,
let me know what kind of

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poses, what kind of 
postures you've been doing.

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If you're doing sweaty yoga, 
are you doing, you know,

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more restorative branch of
yoga, and then we can also talk,

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chat more, chat 
more in private about

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digestive tract stuff.

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But, it's a great point 
that you bring up, that it's,

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you know, it's never 
gonna be the same for everyone.

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We're all very different.

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But the one thing we 
all can be the same at,

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is building awareness

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and finding what feels good,
and breathing.

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For heaven's sake, let's 
take longer, deeper, fuller

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breaths, creating 
good space in the body.

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Alright, that's all I have
for now, only two questions.

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So if you guys have questions,
let me know.

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sending you light.

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Have a beautiful day. 
Namaste.