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hello everyone welcome to the yoga with

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Adriene vlog I'm Adriene and this is

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Benji teaming up and I'm here to tell

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you about my trip to LA so the find what

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feels good Roadshow continues this time

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I did not come home in between because

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that's silly I flew straight from New

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York City to Los Angeles so I'm not

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complaining everything about this trip

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and this practice is awesome it's

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awesome work it's a dream job it's an

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incredible opportunity to connect with

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real people who have honest-to-god

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stories and and really just it's the

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most incredible motivation anyone can

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ever ask for

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but when you leave the city and you have

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to get up at 5:00 a.m. to get in your

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car

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Benji break okay so the time change got

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me a little tired that's all but I

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bounce back I was super excited this

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time I've been staying on the west side

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of LA for the last several trips that

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I've been there working so this time I

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was on the east side great food

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awesome shops a real sense of community

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great coffee and lots of yoga studios so

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this time we were going to have our

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meetup at a beautiful little studio

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called one down dog

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I had heard great things from fellow

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Austinites and other friends about the

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studio so we hunted them down and I mean

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you know they are awesome people and

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they really you know there's dogs

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everywhere so it just kind of seemed

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like a no-brainer on one of my days off

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I wanted to kind of just location scout

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a little bit we were trying to find a

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place to maybe meet up afterwards

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weren't sure if it was going to happen

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this time and I wanted to just get a

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feel for the energy of the studio itself

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so I went to their Silver Lake location

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to take a class I took a really fun and

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sweaty class that bumped some Kanye and

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really kicked my ass actually but it was

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really awesome I hunted down this

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beautiful mural by an awesome artist of

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you

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dog doing downward dog that kind of look

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like Benji I think it's based on another

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dog but I'm gonna pretend it's based on

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Benji just kidding it was really cool

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and the studio itself was really

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beautiful the next day we were at the

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other location that's where our LA

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meetup was in Eagle Rock the class at

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Eagle Rock was so much fun it was full

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of beautiful people also really diverse

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crowd the back of the room got a little

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bit sweaty I felt bad or there's a sun

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shining in the back of that studio but

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there is a sense of like there's a

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heightened sense of we're all in this

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together because everyone knows that I'm

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setting foot into this room to for the

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first time which is true for almost

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everyone there which is also really good

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for the local studios because they're

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getting all of these beautiful

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passionate authentic gorgeous diverse

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group of people these people coming in

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to their studio for the first time what

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am I trying to say you know what if I

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say so I think that's a really nice

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exchange as well

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after the Meetup and one down dog our

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coordinator was trying to get me over to

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the pizza place afterwards ultimately

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it's been my life goal to host a series

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of pizza and beer meetups after the

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holistic wholesome yoga meet up this is

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something that we've tried to do we've

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we did have the beautiful after-party in

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New York but in LA with the timing and

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the traffic and the fact that I had

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another gig the next day it just wasn't

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working out so I was kind of unwilling

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or just not really wanting to go next

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door but we were chatting with people

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afterwards everyone was kind of chatting

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and we mosey over there and to my

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surprise my business partner and friend

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Chris and his wife who's also one of my

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best friends Hilah and their baby Flint

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and some other wonderful friends of mine

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were there along with yoga with adriene

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community members and they surprised me

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with a little pizza and beer and

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I don't even know what people are

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drinking out just like give me the water

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um what else and cake and just beautiful

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love it was so nice I'm like I'm like

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getting flustered talking about it now

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and just because it was I was surprised

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it was so nice to see everyone there so

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it was for my birthday I should mention

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but wait it's not over the next morning

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or actually what am I talking on the

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next morning right after the pizza party

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this is why I didn't have any beer

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I had previously packed my bags and I

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was headed to Newport Beach so I drove

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to Newport Beach because I had been

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invited by some very special ladies to

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participate in the last day of their

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retreat and these are my friends over at

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tone and up so this is their second

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annual retreat their first one went so

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well that they had to do it again this

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time even bigger and better and I was so

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honored to be invited to teach on their

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final day so they do a big booty call on

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Friday mornings Saturday morning Friday

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morning on Saturday morning they all ran

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a 5k and on Sunday morning we surprised

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all the women with a yoga with adriene

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sessions so it was so fun to just

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celebrate each other and the movement

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and I could tell it was a really nice

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way for them to end their weekend it was

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really a nice way for me to end my

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weekend too so we really came together

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in alignment there and it was so nice to

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meet the ladies of tone it up and their

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community is pretty pretty awesome I

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mean it's super rich and super positive

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and it's undeniable that everyone there

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is supportive and there to be motivated

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and to motivate and similar to our

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community and the most honest-to-god way

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so it feels really good and so we

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thought yep that sounds like a good

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mashup and so we'll be doing some

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collaborations with the tonot up ladies

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in the near future as well all in all

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Los Angeles you were a gem I got to

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finish my weekend off with a little

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Oceanside dinner with one of my favorite

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people got to see the ocean it was also

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that crazy super moon day and I got to

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have dinner with one of my oldest

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friends and my acting mentor actually

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who's now being a baller at UCLA so it

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was really nice to kind of circle back

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to roots in that way and also you know

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talk about you know what I've been up to

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and listen to what he's been up to now

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it was really nice I woke up to fly home

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early

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and I was tired but I was grateful and

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happy decided to fly home for my

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birthday week so that I could be with my

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dog and me around loved ones and connect

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and just feel a little bit grounded also

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get some new clothes in my suitcase and

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then before you know it actually

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tomorrow I'm headed out for you Chicago

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first time Chicago Shawshank Redemption

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Chicago you're out of there

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so the time change was up it's good to

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be home