Yoga with Adriene – Lotus: Unearthing My Heart and Soul

“Yoga is not about self improvement. It’s about self acceptance.” – Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

I have been practicing daily yoga for about15 months. I was not sure what I was committing to daily yoga practice. I knew that it was worth trying.

I found Yoga with Adriene on You Tube to undertake this 10 to 15 minutes of yoga every day.

Adriene Mishler would often say that Yoga has your back. I did not know what that really meant. I knew that yoga made me feel better overall. I could tell if I missed yoga a day or two. I felt a little off.

What happened when the going gets tough? I noticed that it became imperative that I do some yoga every day to navigate the rough waters.

I started to think what was different this time for me when I had difficulties to work through.

I had this yoga foundation that I had been building for over a year. I noticed during yoga that the energy would shift or transform. I noticed that I could come to yoga practice with pain or rage and transform or release that. I would often find myself crying during the daily yoga through this challenging period.

Recently, I arrived on the mat and knew that I desperately needed the Reveal yoga practice that was part of Adriene’s 30-day Yoga Journey, Dedicate. I came to the mat needing to deal with some anger. I left the mat transformed and feeling better.

In that moment, I understood why Yoga has my back. If I invest in daily yoga and truly in myself, I build up a foundation in my mind, body and soul and I can move through difficulties with more ease. One aspect of Yoga is about being able to be in the discomfort with ease and just let go.

Yoga has my back!

“Inhale the future. Exhale the past.”

–Unknown

I had been seeing a Reiki practitioner for about a year. Reiki provided me with big leaps in healing my mind and body.

The Reiki Practitioner had recommended meditating every day. I noticed that after about three weeks of these meditations that I was feeling a new found calm in my life.

I already had found yoga out of desperation a few years earlier and went to the yoga studio once or twice a week. The Reiki Practitioner suggested yoga every day for 10 to 15 minutes a day. Really?!!

Yoga poses had helped me train for my return to triathlon (as recommended by the Reiki Practitioner). The Reiki Practitioner was correct about this meditation thing. So, I felt I owed it to myself to at least try this yoga everyday thing. I was not going to go to a yoga studio every day during the week.

So, I looked online for yoga that I could do at home. I stumbled upon Yoga with Adriene. Apparently, Yoga with Adriene had over 3.5 million subscribers on YouTube. Adriene Mishler has a yoga video everything from anxiety, depression, bedtime, running, movement, triathlons, etc. Adriene is funny and makes you want to be your best self. Her dog, Benji, is super cute. She tells how you awesome you are every time!

I started with the library of over four hundred free videos and decided that I would commit to do this yoga at home thing for three weeks because three weeks creates a habit.

I found myself falling in love with Yoga with Adriene and the Yoga with Adriene community. Every Sunday, I get a lovely email from Adriene with a new video and a note that makes you think about being your best self. The comments on the YouTube videos are about how Adriene has changed people’s lives with yoga. It is literally the happiest place on the Internet! Honestly, where can you even find that kind of happiness, joy and sense of community on the Internet anymore?

Adriene is personally on a mission to bring yoga to everyone all over the world.

After my three week commitment, I started feeling much calmer every day. Then, in January, I did the 30 Days of Yoga where Adriene takes you on a yoga journey. I was all in!

Here is the truth. Sexual trauma causes a separation of the mind, body, breathe and soul. Yoga which means to join brings the mind, body, breathe and soul together. Yoga teaches one to learn to be with the discomfort, love yourself, be fine with where you are today, and “Find What Feels Good.” Yoga brings the parasympathetic nervous system online.

Yoga has been scientifically proven to help with PTSD and trauma.

I found myself becoming a Yoga with Adriene walking advertisement.

A woman on a mission in Texas to change the world changed my life so profoundly. Doing yoga everyday heals my mind, body and soul. Yoga brought together my mind, body, breathe and soul that had been splintered during the trauma. It alleviates many of my PTSD symptoms. I just feel good. Every time I watch a Yoga with Adriene video, I smile.

I will be honest. Doing yoga every day is not just about healing from trauma. Yoga really can be beneficial for everyone. It is doing mental hygiene every day. I feel so much better because yoga moves the energy in your body, teaches me to breathe deeper, helps me connect with myself and the world around me and I overall feel great.

So maybe, you will join me and become part of the happiest place on the Internet, Yoga with Adriene.

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