- Hey guys, welcome to 
the Yoga With Adriene Vlog.

I am Adriene and I am here to

wish you a very 
Happy Thanksgiving.

No doubt the theme of 
this vlog is gratitude

and although I joke 
around a lot I really,

really wanted 
to do a vlog today.

One, because we're 
all at home on

our computers cause 
we have the day off and

we're stuffed full of food, 
but no, two, because

one of the kind 
of sister practices

to my physical 
yoga asana practice,

is truely a gratitude practice.

As much as we 
talk about our practice

being infused with the breath,

I feel like our practice 
is infused with gratitude,

or at least it's 
a place to aim for.

Gratitude is so 
important in our daily lives and

we can 
cultivate gratitude in our

daily lives through a practice.

So a couple of things I 
just wanted to share with you

about creating a 
gratitude ritual.

And first of all 
if you're already like

rolling your eyes and about
to go onto like Reddit now

and watch somebody slipping on

the turkey gibbets or 
something stick with me

because I just 
want to say that this

kind of idea of 
cultivating gratitude is

seriously something everyone
can do and will benefit from.

So it's not just 
for the om shanti yogis,

or, you know, anyone 
of a particular religion,

or background or whatever.

I think that cultivating 
a gratitude practice is

truly something we 
can all benefit from.

And just my personal 
humble opinion I feel like

even if we all 
were to spend just an

ounce more time 
focusing on gratitude,

the world would be a much
happier, more beautiful place.

So, you know, I don't mean to go

as far to be like, "The 
secret of yoga is gratitude,"

but the secret of 
yoga is gratitude.

And since we 
have a yoga channel,

and a yoga 
lifestyle channel I would be

remiss if we didn't 
have a vlog just giving

a special shout-out to gratitude
and a gratitude practice.

So, some concrete ways, 'cause

you guys are so 
good about asking,

"Like what Adriene, like what?"
So here we go:

like for instance,
write it down.

Write it down; even if it's
just three things for a day.

Maybe give yourself a week.

Seven days of a 
gratitude practice.

Each night or each morning,
each lunchtime,

whenever's good for you.

You can even use your, 
I don't have my phone here,

but you can use your 
smartphone, the notes.

You know, the notes section of

your smartphone, 
you can do it here.

Or if you're more 
of a pen and paper

type guy or gal 
or on your computer.

Write down three things 
each day for seven days,

that your grateful for, 
that your gratitude for.

That you're grateful for. 
Three things.

I think you'll notice 
that right away you'll like

have more than three things
which is a beautiful thing.

But just three 
things for seven days.

Or you can like 
be a teachers pet

and do this for a whole month.

See how that goes.

That's a great little ritual.

If you want you 
can practice this,

just connecting 
to three things at

the end of your 
practice in Shavasana.

It's a great 
little gratitude ritual.

If you're a coffee 
person or you drink

a morning coffee or morning tea,

that's a great 
maybe moment to connect to

three things while 
your coffee is brewing or

while you're sipping 
your hot cocoa or your tea,

connect to three things there.

In traffic, in the car,
before you

jam your jam on the 
radio or on your iPhone,

connect to three 
things that your,

I almost did it again, 
that you're gratitude for

(laughs) I'm 
grateful for the ability to

articulate and speak 
clearly and thoughtfully.

Last one I want to say 
and my mom taught me this,

so it's a shout-out to my momma;

hi mom, Melba. 
Hey Melba. Hey mom.

Is whenever you're 
feeling down or blue,

or you're feeling 
like poo-poo, kaka, shit,

connect back to gratitude.

My mom used to tell me this and

I still do this to 
this day as an adult.

Whenever you're feeling sad or

you're feeling like, you know,
that moment where you're like,

"This is a bad day,"
"A bad hair day."

"The world's, you know,
against me."

"Everything's 
going against my wishes,

"my desires, and my soul."

Start going through 
that gratitude list.

And don't stop at 
three for heavens sake,

start with, I'm 
thankful for the blue sky.

I'm thankful for 
this Earth beneath me.

I'm thankful for this body,
this breath and

then veer off from 
there and take it away.

And man, thank you mom cause

that has really 
proved to be an awesome tool

and of course just 
infuses my gratitude practice.

So yeah, practice 
gratitude when you can.

Focus on the things 
you're grateful for.

Gosh, we have so many 
things to be grateful for.

I think you'll notice 
that not only will this

infuse your yoga
practice with more

lusciousness, more juiciness,
more yummy-ness

but your daily life.

Consider it kind of 
an energetic hygiene

which we talk 
about in yoga a lot.

Spiritual hygiene if you will.

That's right, 
(snaps finger) I went there.

A spiritual, 
energetic hygiene if you will.

You're keeping your 
vibrational levels high by

connecting to gratitude,

improving the 
quality of your life.

And of course, as I say in my
public classes all the time,

when we take the 
time to do the work,

say thanks, we improve 
the quality of our lives but

by focusing on 
that self-love we also

of course 
increase our chances or

our capability of improving the

lives of others,
those around us.

Starting of course 
with our loved ones

and then moving beyond that too.

Serving others 
in any way we can.

Alright, so self love,
confidence, all that

yummy goodness 
starts with gratitude,

in my Yoga With Adriene opinion.

So share this 
with your loved ones

today on this Thanksgiving.

If you're not 
celebrating Thanksgiving today,

we can still 
celebrate gratitude,

depending what 
culture you are watching from;

what culture? What part of the
world you're watching from.

Let's spread gratitude today.

So you can do this 
by sharing this video.

By commenting below, maybe lets,

actually let's start out now.

Three things 
you're grateful for.

Leave them in the 
comment box below.

If you want to leave 
more then three you can

but let's all 
leave three things.

Share this with our loved ones.

Make sure to say thank you
and give thanks for everything

both on and off the mat 
and let me know how it goes.

Like anything else 
I think it's a practice.

It definitely takes 
a focus and a choice,

a conscious decision to say
stop, drop, and be grateful.

That was so cheesy. (laughs)
Stop, drop, and be grateful.

Alright, I am very 
grateful for all of you.

If you're still 
listening to this,

bless you, I am 
so grateful for you.

All of us at the 
Yoga With Adriene channel,

(laughs) there's two of us.

We're both very 
grateful for all of you and

Chris is behind 
the camera right now so

I'm gonna break the 
fourth wall and say,

Chris I'm very 
grateful for you and

yeah, I look forward to 
the holiday season with you.

We have lots of 
great stuff coming up.

Won't even bother 
talking about it now,

let's just keep it real 
on the gratitude train but

stay tuned for 
lots more and Namaste.

The great, great 
word of gratitude.

The divine in me 
bows to the divine in you.

Have a happy 
Thanksgiving everyone.

Namaste.

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