- Hi everyone.

Welcome to Home, 
your 30-day yoga journey.

It's Day 21, boost.

Let's get started.

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Alrighty, my darling friends,

let's begin today's 
practice laying down.

Come on down to the ground.

And we're gonna start 
with just a nice big stretch.

So extend the legs out long.

Reach your arms all 
the way up and overhead

and find your breath here
as you spread the fingertips,

spread the toes.

You can close 
your eyes here,

feel the skin of 
the belly stretch.

And keep breathing here.

Just a couple I love 
you breaths in and out,

in and out, in and out.

Wiggle your fingers,
wiggle your toes.

And on your next exhale, you're
gonna take a S-H sound out

through the mouth 
like this (shushes).

As if you were 
lovingly quieting someone.

It's like that scene from 
the "Music Man" and

Marian, the librarian.
(shushes)

So take a deep breath in.

And again, just test it out.
(shushes)

And as you find this exhale,
think about your navel

contracting down, down, down
towards the earth and just

notice. if anything, if that
does something to the pelvis.

And you should feel 
this like contraction,

this connection in your 
center as you breathe out.

And then, of course, 
we find that lift and

that expansion as we breathe in.

Keep the fingertips spreading,
energy in the feet, here we go.

Big inhale.

Exhale.

S-H sound out through the mouth.

(shushes)

Empty, empty, 
empty, empty, empty.

Feel that connection in center.

And then big inhale.

Again, just experimenting here.

Exhale, S-H sound.
(shushes)

Contract, contract, contract.

Empty and then big inhale.

S-H sound, let the 
low ribs get heavy here.

Feel that contraction 
as you breathe out.

(shushes)

Let the muscles of the 
abdominal wall turn on.

Then try to maintain this
connection in your core as we

slowly bring the knees up,
either both at the same time or

one at a time but 
from that place of connect.

Great, then wrap the 
arms around the shins.

Give yourself a big hug here as

you squeeze the 
knees up into the chest.

Try to keep the 
shoulders relaxed.

Breathe here, feel the expansion
of your belly as you breathe in.

You can kind of maybe feel
it in the tops of the thighs.

And then just reinforce that
contraction as you breathe out.

Squeeze the knees up 
in towards the chest,

feel that pressure 
in the low belly.

So today's practice, a little
boost for the internal organs,

a little boost 
for the immune system.

You got to bring the breath.

Inhale in again.

This time on the exhale,
peel the crown of the head up.

Try to keep the shoulders
relaxed here as you lift,

lift, lift, nose 
towards the knees.

Just go as far as you can.

Scooping tailbone up, squeezing,

feeling that gentle
compression in the belly.

Again, massaging the 
internal organs today.

Inhale in.

Exhale to slowly release head,
neck, shoulders to earth.

Great, we're gonna 
hold onto the right knee,

extend the left leg out long.

Inhale in.

Exhale again, 
nose toward the knee.

Pause here.
Breathe deep.

Try to keep the 
shoulders relaxed.

I'm flexing 
through both feet here.

Really nice and firm through
the top of the left thigh.

Great, inhale in.

Maybe lift a little higher.

And then exhale to slowly,
gently lower down.

Great, we're gonna 
take that right knee now,

guide it across the body over

towards the 
left side of the mat.

If you want, you can shift
your hips to the right side.

Nice supine twist here.

No need to push or force,
just let it unravel.

Turning on to your right ear,
maybe turning your gaze towards

your right fingertips.

Breathe nice, big belly breaths.

Inhale in deeply.

Use your exhale to 
slowly melt back to center.

And we'll take 
it to the other side.

Left knee comes in.

Right leg extends out.

So nice and active in the feet.

Tuck your chin just 
slightly here to start,

squeezing left knee all the way
up towards your left shoulder.

Relax your shoulders.
Find your breath again.

Here we go, big inhale.

Exhale, peeling the nose 
up towards the left knee.

Feeling that connection in
your belly as you breathe in.

And that contraction 
as you breathe out.

Nice deep breaths.

Skin in the face soft.

No pain in the neck.

Good, take one more inhale.

Maybe lift a little higher.

If you're not even close,
don't worry.

And then on the exhale,
we gently lower.

Great, guide the left knee now
across the body over towards the

right side of the mat.

You can shift the 
hips over towards the left

if that feels good.

And we take this nice,
supine twist on the other side.

Maybe you turn on 
towards your left ear.

Don't push it or force it here
at the beginning of practice

or really ever (laughs).

Just nice, easy unraveling.

Use your breath to 
find what feels good here.

And big inhale.

Navel draws to the 
spine on the exhale,

that's what brings 
us back to center.

We'll plant both feet, 
knees up towards the sky.

Press the palms into the earth.

Snuggle your shoulder blades
underneath your heart space.

Inhale to lift the hips up.

Press into all four 
corners of the feet.

Lifting, lifting, lifting
hip points up towards the sky.

You can interlace 
the fingertips,

draw the shoulder blades 
a little closer together.

A gentle Bridge here.

Shins forward.

Hips up high.

Keep breathing.
Breathe into your belly.

Chest lifts to your chin.

Then chin lifts to the sky.

Great, take one 
more deep breath in here.

And on the exhale, let that be
your cue to slowly release the

bind and with control, 
release hips to the earth.

Awesome, hug the 
knees back up into the chest.

We're gonna rock and roll up and
down the length of your spine.

So you can bring the hands to

the backs of the 
thighs if that helps you.

Here we go, 
moving with your breath.

Massaging up and 
down the back body.

Eventually we'll come 
all the way up to a nice,

comfortable seat of your choice.

So that can be cross-legged.

It can be on the knees.

Sit up nice and tall.

We'll take the left palm bring
it to the belly here and then

right palm to come on top.

Loop the shoulders, 
lift 'em up and take 'em back.

Creating space 
in the heart, the chest.

Nice, long, beautiful neck here.

So we're going to work 
with a little breath of fire,

a little Kapalabhati Breath.

If this pranayama is new to
you, I do have a video just on

Kapalabhati but you can 
play with it a little bit today.

I will guide you.

Find that upward 
current through the front body.

This lift we've 
been playing with.

Ground through the back body,

maybe taking the shoulder
blades down, down, down.

So we're gonna inhale in and
just practice this sharp exhale,

drawing the navel 
in towards the spine.

Then the next inhale's passive
and we work on this sharp,

short exhale drawing 
the navel in each time.

We'll pick up the pace,

but let's just give it a 
couple of practice rounds.

So big inhale.

Exhale, sharp navel draws in.
(sharp exhale)

Inhale.

Test it out.
(sharp exhale)

And you're gonna feel your hands
moving out on the inhale and

then a sharp 
drawing in on the exhale.

Try to keep your 
shoulders relaxed,

particularly if you've been
practicing with me for a while.

Let's keep upper 
body nice and soft.

Lots of awareness.

Alrighty, here we go.

Deep breath in to start.

Exhale, just let everything
out, relax your shoulders.

We'll inhale into 
begin Kapalabhati.

(sharp exhales repeatedly)

Pets love Kapalabhati so if
your pet is coming up to now,

try to stay focused.

It's okay to 
have a little smile.

If you get off 
track with the beat,

just pick it up again.

Nice and easy in the 
shoulders and in the face.

(sharp exhales repeatedly)

Keep it going, 
you're doing awesome.

And release. Big inhale, 
here we go all together.

Nice cleansing breath 
out through the mouth.

Now seal the lips.

Pause, keep breathing, observe.

Notice how you feel.

Awesome. Then release 
your fingertips to your sides.

Open your eyes.

We're gonna extend 
both legs out long.

Inhale, when you're ready.

Send the fingertips 
behind the ears.

Reach, try to reach 
whatever this means to you

from your waistline here.

So we're reaching 
all the way up,

connecting waist to 
shoulder to elbow to wrist,

all the way up, reach, 
reach, reach, reach, reach.

Inhale in.

Exhale, bend the knees.

Belly comes towards the tops of
the thighs and we're gonna drape

over here nice and easy.

Relax the weight 
to the head over.

Listen to the 
sound of your breath.

In time, you can work 
to straighten the legs.

Now think of what we often
call this directional breath.

As you inhale, the breath
travels down into your belly,

towards your guts, right?

You can feel 
that inhalation here.

You can feel the belly expand.

And then on the exhale,

it comes out and up 
through the nose and mouth.

So here you can practice 
that directional breath,

that belly breathing.

Breathing in, sending that
air down into the diaphragm.

And then feeling 
the breath rise up

and empty out 
through the nose or mouth.

Then take one more 
deep belly breath in.

And empty it out.

Sweet, tuck the chin.
Ground through the sits bones.

Slowly begin to roll it up.

Go ahead and 
catch your right knee.

Bring your right 
foot to the earth.

Sit up nice and tall.

On an inhale, left 
fingertips reach all the way up.

Exhale, big twist here.

Outer edge of 
the left arm coming to

the outer edge 
of the right knee.

Right fingertips or 
right palm comes behind.

Nice and active 
in that left leg.

If this is just too twisty,
too pretzel-y for you,

doesn't feel good then let's
back up the truck and hug the

left elbow into the 
right knee and work here.

Great, drop your 
chin to your chest.

Inhale in.

Exhale, slowly lift 
head all the way up,

back in alignment 
with the heart,

chin parallel to the earth.

Inhale, belly breath.

Exhale, 
relax the shoulders, twist.

Good, inhale, belly breath.

Exhale to unravel.

Come back to center and switch.

Benji's working real hard today.

Here we go.
Lifting the left knee up.

Big breath in to reach 
the right fingertips up high.

Keep this lift, think up and

over as you come 
into the twist here.

So outer edge of 
the right elbow coming to

the outer edge 
of the left knee.

Left fingertips 
or left palm behind.

Modification to just hug that
right elbow into the left knee.

Alright, find that 
directional breath.

Breathing down into the belly,

into the diaphragm 
on the inhale.

And then using that exhale
to recreate that contraction,

that navel drawing in and up,
moving into your twist.

Imagine you're pressing your

right foot into an 
imaginary wall.

Now gently draw the 
chin into the chest,

bow your head, 
take a deep breath in.

And exhale, 
lifting chin back up.

Inhale, lengthen 
through the crown.

Exhale, journey into the twist.

One more, big inhale.

And exhale to 
bring it back to center.

Awesome.
Send both legs out long.

Inhale to reach for the sky.

Exhale, think up and over,
reach towards your toes.

Doesn't matter if 
you can touch them.

Doesn't even 
matter if you come close.

Just reaching 
forward, forward, forward.

Relax the weight 
of the head down.

Just one cycle 
of breath here in.

Breathe in to the belly and out.

Empty, empty, empty.

Great, slowly roll it back up.

We're gonna cross the ankles,
come through to a seat.

Send the 
fingertips out in front.

Take the fingertips down.

Zombie arms, should feel good.

Nice stretch here.

And then plug the shoulders
back as you lift your chest.

Breathe here.

Head over heart, 
heart over pelvis.

Again, you got to 
bring the breath today.

Mhmmm.

Alright, bend the elbows,

grab opposite elbow 
with opposite hand here.

Sit up nice and tall.

Okay, moving with the breath.

Inhale, lift the 
elbows all the way up.

Kind of a peekaboo 
moment here. Hey.

And then exhale.

Elbows in line 
with the shoulders.

You got this with your breath.
Inhale, lift it up.

Exhale, lower.

Inhale, lift.

Exhale, think 
about drawing navel in,

finding that contraction.

Inhale, lift.

Exhale, contract.

Inhale think long, puppy belly.

Exhale, think hollow body,
hollow front body.

Three more, inhale.

Exhale.

Stick with it.
Two more, inhale.

Exhale.

Last one.

Alright, stay here 
in you're kind of

"I Dream of Jeannie" arms.

You're gonna lean back,
listen carefully,

we're gonna bring the soles
of the feet to the ground.

Stick with it, stick with it.

Keep lifting up 
through the chest.

Inhale in again.

Exhale, find that 
contraction as you come back

into this little Boat variation.

You can keep the big toes on
the ground or you can lift shins

parallel to the earth.

Check it out, inhale in.

Exhale, twisting to the left,
extending right leg.

Inhale, come back to center.

Exhale, twist to the right,
extending left leg.

Inhale to center.

Exhale to twist.

Inhale to center.

Exhale to twist.

Inhale to center.

Exhale to twist.

Inhale to center.

Exhale to twist.

One more on each side,
you got this.

Inhale to center.

Exhale to twist.

Inhale to center, last one.

Exhale to twist.

Inhale to center. 
Slowly, with control,

soles of the feet 
come to the earth and,

yep, draping over,
relaxing the arms,

head relaxes and take
a second here to chill, to rest.

Breathe deep.

Relax, any tension in
the shoulders, the neck.

This would a great opportunity

to choose to let go 
of any stress, any worry.

These things that we 
carry around with us.

Maybe you said 
something you didn't mean to.

Maybe something embarrassed you.

Maybe you're 
angry about something.

The longer we hold onto them,
the more they kind of,

right, manifest and 
turn up in the body.

Inhale in deeply.

And exhale to 
slowly lift the chin.

Bring the palms to the earth.

We're just gonna 
windshield wiper

the legs left to right here.

Excellent, and then 
nice and slow

all the way back 
down to the earth.

When you land there,

give yourself a 
nice squeeze, big hug.

Knees into the chest.

Alright, we're gonna 
finish with a Texas T.

So send your 
fingertips out left to right.

And if you don't have a 
room for the full wing span,

you can bend the elbows like so,
come to cactus arms or you can

stay in the Texas theme and
come to football goalpost arms.

Alright, actively scoop the
tailbone up so you feel this

connection with the 
lower back and the mat.

Feel your abdominal 
wall turn on here.

So we're gonna end 
with this Reclined Twist.

But the difference today 
is really play with that

contraction on exhale.

Let's give it a go, big inhale.

Exhale.

Slow and steady navel draws in

and we're gonna melt 
the knees to the left.

Slow and steady.

Inhale in.

Exhale, contract,
navel draws in.

Come back through center.

Inhale.

Exhale to the right,
navel draws in.

Beautiful.
Inhale.

Exhale, navel draws in,
come back to center.

Good, inhale.

Exhale, knees fall to the
left and this time stay here.

You can turn on towards your
right ear and breathe deep.

Left hand can come 
to the outer edge

of the right thigh 
if that feels good.

Maybe close your eyes here or

soften your gaze 
unless you're like me

looking at the beautiful 
white clouds and the blue sky

moving super fast today.

Maybe you enjoy 
something like that here.

The leaves moving outside.

Inhale, find 
that balloon breath.

Exhale, navel draws in 
and we come back to center.

Inhale.

Exhale to the right, same thing.

Maybe right hand comes to the
outer edge of the left thigh,

turning onto the left ear.

Try to keep your 
left shoulder grounded.

Breathe deep. Enjoy.

And then big balloon
breath here, inhale.

Navel draws in, 
come back to center.

Last time,
give yourself a big hug,

wrap the arms 
around the shins,

squeeze, squeeze, squeeze.

And then exhale 
to let everything go.

Extend the legs out long.

Sorry, buddy.

Let your arms rest 
gently at your sides.

Tuck the chin to 
lengthen the neck.

And close your eyes here.

Take a rest.

We already know this but

just taking a moment 
here to lean into this

beautiful moment where
we allow ourselves permission to

do absolutely nothing.

Letting the body be still.

Recognizing that 
we need this time.

Of rest each day.

Conscious stillness.

So that the 
system of the body

get a fighting 
chance to be well.

To work for you.

So even if it 
feels a little difficult,

take three more breaths here
to just relax the weight of the

body completely into the earth.

Begin to wiggle the fingers,
wiggle your toes.

Start to rotate 
the wrists and the ankles.

And when you're ready,
take a deep breath.

Bring your palms together,
thumbs right to the third eye.

Day 21, incredible.

It's an honor and a 
pleasure to be on this ride,

this journey with you.

This walk home.

Hope you have a beautiful 
rest of the day or evening,

and I look forward to 
seeing you mañana, tomorrow.

Take a deep breath in.

Exhale to relax your 
shoulders and we whisper

Namaste.

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