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- Hello everyone. Welcome to
Home, your 30-day yoga journey.

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It's Day 8, and I'm here with
Benji to welcome you back for a

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special practice, one that 
I really love because

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one, we get to get cozy,

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but also this is 
one that just allows us

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a little bit of 
time and space to pause,

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to be still, 
to breathe, to meditate

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and remember just how 
potent this practice can be.

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There is always an opportunity
to find a little bit of healing

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in small movements and

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small moments with 
ourselves throughout the day.

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So that's exactly 
what this practice

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celebrates and reminds us.

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If you have 
a pillow or a blanket,

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bring it to this session.

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If you don't, 
don't worry about it.

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

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(upbeat gentle music)

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Alright, darling friends.

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come on down to the ground.

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Couple of options today that 
I think you are going to love.

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One, you can sit up 
on a blanket or a pillow.

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You can lay a little blanky
out if you have one or a towel.

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You can grab a blanket for
yourself and only to have it

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taken by an 
animal in your house.

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Which I'm going to go ahead
and let him keep that for now.

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But it's Day 8.

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This is a day where we

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usually say, "Day 8, don't hate,
meditate, feel great."

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So if you're 
new to this journey,

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I would just like to extend
that little mantra to you.

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Day 8, meditate.
Don't hate, feel great.

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And the idea is that this
year, this session is really an

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invitation to be open,

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to heal whatever ails you.

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This can be like

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just a feeling you have from a

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stressful conversation 
with someone

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or it can be something deeper.

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So my loving advice is to
just enjoy this practice and not

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really worry about the outcome
but I think that it's worth

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considering all of 
this as we set ourselves up

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so sit up tall on something.

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If you're a little bit chilly,
pause the video,

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go grab a sweater.

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You can wear socks for 
this session if you like.

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I'm gonna let Benji stay on
the blanket since he's so cozy

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but my plan was to have 
you wrap up in it like a

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you know, 
I don't know, like this.

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And so you can get 
really cozy with it.

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The at-home yoga practice is
beautiful in that way that we

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can really listen and respond.

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We can do that in 
other settings as well

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but there's 
nothing like this setting.

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So take a second pause 
the video if you need to.

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Let's get a little bit 
cozy and we'll meet in a nice,

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comfortable seat of your choice.

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Let's start together 
with a little reverent bow,

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so just bow your 
head in gently tuck the chin.

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Then drop your gaze.

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Maybe close your eyes.

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Whilst I could go on and on

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about all the ways in which I

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believe this practice of
yoga and its philosophy

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to be healing,

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how about we just open

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ourselves to the 
possibility together?

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Open our hearts and our minds to
experiencing it for ourselves.

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So best you can and I want to
acknowledge that I know it's

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difficult, particularly if
you're sneaking in this practice

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because you want 
to get your Day 8 in,

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I know how the 
day to day can be.

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But to the best of your ability,
let's just see if we can kind of

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offer ourselves a flash of
surrender just where we drop

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the day thus far, 
we drop everything,

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all the narratives.

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And for this moment 
and this moment only,

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it's you and I and

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the sound of our breath.

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Inhale in.

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Exhale out.

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Inhale in.

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Long breath out.

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Then one more, 
big full breath in.

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And this time, as you exhale,
relax the shoulders.

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Empty, empty, 
empty, empty, empty.

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Awesome. Bat the eyelashes open,
it's amazing what just three

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breaths will do, 
I already feel like,

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whoa, okay, I have to remember
that I'm leading the practice.

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You're gonna place a little
charcoal pencil, with the kids

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I say little marker you to pick
your color and we're just gonna

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draw small circles 
with the nose one way,

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keep it small.

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Like a little saucer plate.

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And then keep going 
in the same direction.

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Allow the circle to 
grow to like a salad plate.

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The perfect size 
plate for your croissant.

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Your toast.

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Your concha.

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And now big, big plate.
Full size.

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Breathe, listen to 
the little soundtrack

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your neck (chuckles)
has to share with you.

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Alright, and then reverse it,

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starting with 
the full size plate.

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Soften through the jaw,
part the lips.

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If you're 
collapsing the spine here

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maybe sit up on a little blanky.

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Here we go, now to 
the the mama bear plate.

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Relax your shoulders and now to
that small saucer sized plate.

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And back to one, back to center.

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Head over heart, 
heart over pelvis.

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Take a deep breath in. 
Inhale, fill up.

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Listen carefully.

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At the top pause, hold.

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Retain the breath.

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Capture it.
Hold your breath.

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And now empty it out.

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Empty, empty, 
empty, empty, empty,

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empty, empty, 
empty, empty, empty.

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We'll continue 
with this technique.

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Nice and easy, big inhale.

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Breathe in.

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At the fullest heighth 
of your breath, pause.

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Retain the breath.

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Try to soften 
through the shoulders,

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the skin of the face,
sit up nice and tall.

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Hold it.

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Good and empty, 
empty, empty, empty it out.

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Empty, emtpy, empty 
it out to its fullest.

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Empty, empty, 
empty, empty, empty.

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And here we go, big inhale.

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Pause, retain the breath.

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Keep the shoulders relaxed.

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And release, exhale.

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Empty it out, 
empty, empty, empty,

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empty, empty, empty, 
empty, empty, empty.

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At the bottom of that exhale,
big breath in.

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And pause, retain the breath.

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Lengthen up through the crown.

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And release, 
slow and with control,

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long exhalation. 
You got this.

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Slow and steady.

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Empty, empty,
empty, empty,

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empty, empty, empty.

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At the bottom of that exhale,
big buoyant,

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beautiful inhale in.
Here we go.

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Pause, retain the breath.

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And release, empty it out.

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Slow and with control.

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Nice, long exhalation here.

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Empty, empty, empty, empty.

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For this next round,

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please soften your 
gaze or close your eyes.

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I'll guide you. 
Here we go. Big inhale.

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At the top, pause,
retain the breath.

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Nice work.
Empty it out.

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Keep going, keep going,
just keep going,

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going, going, going.

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Big inhale.
Here we go.

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Fill it up, fill it up,
fill it up,

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fill it up, fill it up,
pause retain.

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Stay calm.

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And release slow and 
with control and make it long,

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make it smooth. Enjoy.

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Exhale, exhale, exhale, exhale.

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And one more time, breathe wide.

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Think a big, full lateral breath
you're breathing in to all four

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sides of the torso.
Inhale, inhale, inhale.

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You know what to do.

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Gracefully pause, 
capture the magic,

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the spirit, the breath, retain.

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And empty it out.

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Slow and with 
control, empty, empty,

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empty, empty, empty, empty,
everything out.

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Awesome work.

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From here, please lean back.

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Gently, bring 
the knees together.

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Send your legs 
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If you're lifted up on the
hips, you can stay lifted here.

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It might be quite nice.

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We're gonna bring the 
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Little stretch for 
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Point the toes, 
breathe in, lift the chest.

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Flex the toes up 
towards the face,

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flex your feet and 
exhale, breathe out.

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Aw, little Benji's 
enjoying the Day 8 practice.

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Inhale, point the toes,
lift your chest.

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And exhale, flexing the feet.

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Toes towards your face.

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Excellent.
Press up on the fingertips.

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Sit up nice and tall.

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I'm wanting to create a nice
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of a straight line from

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the base of the spine 
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So just do your best.

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And then we're gonna 
pick the right knee up.

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We're gonna place the 
right foot on the ground.

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You're gonna give yourself
about a hand's width of space

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between your left inner 
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So no need to zip it up 
all tight and pretzel like.

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Give yourself some space.

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Yes.

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And then big inhale.

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We're gonna take the 
left fingertips up high.

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You know what to do 
here but I'll remind you.

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Use this action to 
find length, find space.

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Spaciousness is 
what I was gonna say.

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Inhale, keep that space, 
that lift as you breathe in.

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As you hook the left 
elbow to the right knee.

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Right fingertips come behind.
Peek at me if you need to.

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Sweet, and then inhale.

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Lift with the inhale.

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Exhale, twist.

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If you're used to 
doing this really tight,

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I lovingly challenge you to keep
that width

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so you can create 
more of a twist in the spine.

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The mid back in particular.

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And you can turn to gently look
past your right shoulder

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if it feels right.

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Inhale in.
Breathe into your belly.

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Pause, retain at 
the top if you like,

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and then use that same slow
and controlled exhale out here.

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You got it.

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Nice and active 
in the left foot.

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One more breath in.

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And use your exhale to slowly
release and come back to center.

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Send the right leg out.
We're going to switch sides.

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Peel the left foot up.

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Again, give yourself 
about a hand's width here.

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So this femurs, 
just a little nerd moment,

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this femur, this hip socket
dropping down in to socket.

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If I'm here and 
kind of zipping in,

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trying to get this 
like picture book pose,

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kinda missing out on 
some of the good nerdy stuff,

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the magic.
So give yourself some space.

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Let this drop down into socket.

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Yes, and then 
flex your right foot.

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Reach your right 
fingertips up high.

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Lift your heart and 
then exhale, find your twist.

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Hooking the right 
elbow to the left knee

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or just right hand here.

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This is a great 
little modification here.

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Left fingertips come behind.

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Left hip is still dropping down.

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I'm flexing my right 
toes and we'll find it here.

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Breathing deeply 
down into the belly.

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Using that inhale to find length

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and the exhale to 
explore the twist.

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So these twists, 
I'm sure you know this,

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but just a little 
reminder so healing,

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potentially healing for 
the body and for the systems.

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It's like the image I love is of
taking kind of a dirty rag and

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dipping it in the water and
gently wringing it out and

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just all of that 
excess stuff all, you know,

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that which you no 
longer need washing away.

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Take one more big inhale here.

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Replenishing the body 
and the energetic body.

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Use your exhale to 
come all the way back.

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Okay, send the legs out long.

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If you brought 
a pillow to class,

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you're gonna 
grab your pillow now.

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Bring it right on 
top of the thighs.

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Take the hands move the fleshy
part of the buttocks aside.

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Sit up nice and tall.
Big inhale to reach of the sky.

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Exhale, yep, you guessed it.

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Think up and over.

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You're gonna drape 
your body over the pillow.

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Feel free to bend the knees.

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You can just allow the hands
to be soft as you Forward Fold.

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Or if you want 
to take a bind here.

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Use your peace fingers bring
them in-between your big toe and

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your second toe here 
or whatever works for you

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and use that to kind of tug in 
as you melt the belly down.

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Take three to five breaths here.

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Enjoy.

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Feel the skin of your 
back stretch as you breathe in.

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Softening as you breathe out.

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Calming the nervous system.

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Gently release.

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Slow rise up, 
soften through the feet here.

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Wiggle the toes.

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Inhale in.

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And exhale, just sigh it out.

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(sighs)

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Come on now, don't be shy,
if I'm doing this on YouTube,

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you can do it 
wherever you are, I'm sure.

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Here we go, big inhale.

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Sigh it out.

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Let go something that's 
just no longer serving you.

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Just let it go. (sighs)

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And one more time, here we go.

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Let Benji and I 
hear you all the way

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here in my home state of Texas.

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Big inhale.

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Sigh it out. (sighs)

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A little sound, 
a little healing vibration.

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Alright, watch this cool move.

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Take the hands, use them to
support you as you lift your

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bum, draw it forward,
knees come up.

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Then take your pillow.

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Bring it up and behind,
(mimicks triumphant trumpets),

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come onto your back.

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So this is where we take the
blanket and we're gonna wrap up

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like a little tacquito or a
little burrito but I feel like

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it would be animal cruelty 
for me to take Benji up off

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this blanket right now.

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So I'm not gonna do it.

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Okay, guys, I'm just not.

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But I would love for you,
my darling friends,

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to get your blanket and bring
it on top of your body here.

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Let's actually take a second
before you get legs extended to

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hug the knees in.

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Sorry, I got 
distracted with the blanket.

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And then let's wrap up in 
the blanket if you have it.

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If you don't have it,
you can be like me.

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And we're coming essentially 
in to a Shavasana here.

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So get cozy.

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You definitely want 
to get to a place where

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you're not holding anything.

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So if your back is fussy and
you want to bring the knees up,

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wonderful, great,
great listening.

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Great of you to listen.

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But let's find a place where
we're not holding ourselves up

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so you can bring the feet wide.

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You can bring 
the knees together.

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Definitely want to get to a
place where you can relax the

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weight of your body completely
and fully into the earth.

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Awesome.

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Then here we go, inhale, 
send the fingertips up high.

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Big stretch.

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Exhale, right arm over the left.

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You're gonna give 
yourself a big hug.

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Now close your eyes here.

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You can really walk your 
fingertips underneath your

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shoulder blades.

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And with the eyes closed,
feel your breath

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move you here, 
feel your own embrace.

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We're signaling in 
the brain that I am held.

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I am safe.

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And if you guys think I'm
crazy this is like now proven,

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you know, scientific research is
now proving that these types of

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gestures, holding your 
own hand, finding an embrace,

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many of the things we do in yoga

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they change our 
chemical makeup or they can.

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Okay, inhale, reach of the sky.

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Hang with me, nice 
little shoulder opener here.

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Gentle shoulder opener 
here at the very least.

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Left arm crosses over the right.
Give yourself a big hug.

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Start to relax 
through the low back,

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the hips, the thighs.

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Let your knee joints 
just be heavy and loose here.

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Calves heavy, 
ankles, feet, toes softening,

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letting go.

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And then inhale, 
reach for the sky.

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Exhale, allow the hands 
to rest gently at your sides.

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Palms face up.

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Tuck your chin 
slightly to lengthen through

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the back of the neck.

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Close your eyes.

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Whether you grabbed a blanket or
you sacrificed it to

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a literal angel, furry angel or

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maybe

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something else.

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Basically, whether you have
a blanket or not, my darling,

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blanket yourself in love.

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If someone asked you to 
blanket yourself in love,

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which someone is, 
that someone's me,

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how do you want to respond?

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What does that make you feel?

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And does it change the 
quality of your breath?

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And if not, that's cool.

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Together, let's 
find a full breath in.

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Here we go.
Inhale lots of love in.

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The deepest, fullest, most
loving breath you've taken

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all day, all week, 
all month, all year.

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And exhale, lots of love out.

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Using this exhale to find once
again that flash of surrender.

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Finding stillness.

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Relaxing the weight 
of the body completely

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and fully into the earth,
softening through the belly.

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Letting the rib cage get heavy.

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Letting your heart soften.

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The shoulders relax.

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Let the arms, the wrists,

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the fingers be soft and easy.

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Relax the throat.

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Take a second to swallow

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and then consciously relax the

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tongue here in the mouth.

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00:22:16,084 --> 00:22:18,945
Notice if you're 
holding in the jaw, soften.

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Then bring your awareness 
between your two brows

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to the forehead, soften.

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And the weight of the head
and the skull now softening.

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A total surrender to 
that which is so much bigger

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than us.

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And it's beautiful because
from the yogic perspective,

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as we surrender to that 
which is bigger than us,

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there's also this beautiful
opportunity to recognize the

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surrender as actually a unity.

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This idea that we

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are part of that 
which is bigger than us.

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Went deep.

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00:23:17,896 --> 00:23:19,565
Okay, take a couple 
of quiet breaths here.

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I love you.

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Give yourself permission
here to do absolutely nothing.

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We're not going to be 
here long, stick with it.

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00:23:33,012 --> 00:23:34,460
Be still.

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Nice and slow

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bring your thumb 
to your index finger.

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00:24:00,472 --> 00:24:03,039
Let them kiss together and then
start to move your thumb

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on your other fingerprints

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back and forth, back and forth.

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00:24:09,313 --> 00:24:11,988
Begin to gently deepen 
the breath once again.

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Think inhale lots of love in.

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00:24:18,123 --> 00:24:19,992
Exhale, lots of love out.

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Continue that cycle as 
you bring some movement

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or energy to the toes,
to the feet.

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And notice how you feel.

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If time allows, you might 
stay here a little longer.

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Just pausing the video.

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You might rise up

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00:24:47,065 --> 00:24:52,416
and find you have 
one minute to write down in

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your journal, or on a 
napkin how you're feeling.

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00:24:56,328 --> 00:24:58,263
And maybe it's off to 
the races for the rest

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of your day or your evening.

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Wherever you are, 
I hope this practice

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has helped you feel

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the love that you deserve.

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00:25:10,709 --> 00:25:14,513
And may it remind us all 
that a little goes a long way

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in the healing process.

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Just get up and 
start again each day.

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I have your back.
Let's bring the palms together.

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00:25:22,087 --> 00:25:24,609
Benji does too, 
my prince (chuckles).

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00:25:25,971 --> 00:25:28,975
Thumbs are gonna come 
right up to that third point.

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00:25:31,797 --> 00:25:34,226
I truly believe 
that the more people,

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00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:37,925
more of us doing yoga together

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the better position we are to

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00:25:42,441 --> 00:25:45,411
find healing and to live in

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00:25:47,203 --> 00:25:49,415
a kinder world.
So thank you so much.

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00:25:49,415 --> 00:25:52,818
I mean it for practicing 
with me and for showing up.

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00:25:52,818 --> 00:25:55,187
I show up because you show up.

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So on that note, 
take a deep breath in.

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And we'll finish 
by whispering

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00:26:04,367 --> 00:26:05,904
Namaste.

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00:26:08,842 --> 00:26:12,987
(upbeat gentle music)