- Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Yoga with Adriene Vlog.
I'm Adriene, and I'm here today,
to wish you a very happy holiday, whether you're celebrating
Christmas, or Hanukkah, or the winter solstice,
or if you're on a beach somewhere.
Just wishing you a very happy holiday!
I wanted to say thank you again, because you
can never say thank you too much.
Thank you so much for a wonderful year,
for sharing all of your stories, and just being so warm.
It's particularly on the Youtube channel, I really am proud
and—mic check, sorry—proud and
honored and just thrilled that
the community there is so warm, and honest.
It's really pleasant, and I think that's worth toasting to.
I look forward to more of that in the new year.
I also wanted to say thank you to a couple of friends
who so kindly sent me a couple of gifts,
and I just want to show them to you because
they're just so sweet, and I just wanted
to give them a little "hello" and a shout-out.
I got this cool "Namaste" hanging from Melissa and Charles.
I actually should have ended with this, right? Namaste.
Or we can greet each other with this.
Namaste, from my heart to yours.
"Namaste" means I'm awesome, you're awesome,
we're awesome.
The best in me bows to the best in you.
The divine in me honors the divine in you.
It's a perfect thing to kind of mediate on
at the end of the year, as we begin to
kind of dream up what the next cycle is going to be.
And, in fact, as I record this now,
the solar moon, we're already into the new solar year.
So the new moon was just a couple days ago.
So we can already start beginning,
you can already begin to start thinking
of the things you want to do in the new year.
And cultivate whatever you need to cultivate
to make that dream a reality, right?
Conscious languaging, conscious thought,
whether you write it down or think about it in the shower.
Or on the mat, or before a meal, or in the car.
Just be aware of how powerful your words,
your thoughts are as we begin to dream up 2015!
Another thing I have here is from
my dear friend Kelly Assandres.
I met Kelly, actually, in yoga studio
at the gym many moons ago, and she's like a sister to me.
And her mom actually made this.
(sniffs). It smells like Kelly, too. So good.
She said that this reminded her of me because of the colors,
and it looks like an old lady from the 20s wore it.
And I was like "thank you," I was actually flattered.
(laughs) Thank you so much, Kelly. Thank you,
Melissa and Charles, very sweet...
First, I also want to mention 30 Days of Yoga.
I'm sure you've heard about it, but just
another reminder that it's coming up.
It's free, it's going to be awesome.
It's 30 days of free yoga videos
to help you kick-start the year.
And it will be available on throughout.
So if you're traveling or you're like
"I'm just not ready to start on January 1st or January 2nd,"
then that's OK, you can start and move at your own pace,
because it's really there to empower you
to create a home practice, and to get back to you.
The link for that is down below.
Make sure you check it out, sign up if you like.
I look forward to seeing how that goes
with everyone, and connecting globally.
It's going to be so awesome! Seriously, so cool!
So as you know, Chris and Hyla welcomed
a baby to the world just a couple of months ago.
We also just released our prenatal yoga package,
which would be a great Christmas gift
or a great thing to give anyone in your life
that you know is pregnant, expecting,
we'll put a link for that down below, too.
And in that splog I'm just happy to report
that their baby is alive and happy and healthy and so cute!
So whether you're pregnant or not, you might
want to hop over there and just get caught up just for fun.
And again, keep that in your tool bag
as a lovey present for somebody who's expecting.
That said, speaking of babies,
I got one more present to show you.
We shot a bunch of yoga last Friday,
I went and did some shopping, I hold
an annual ladies party, which is really lovely.
We actually do it in the yoga room.
It's very sweet, all women, connecting.
So I was shopping for the holiday party,
came home and there was a box underneath this tree.
My sweetheart said "Open the box. It's your
"Christmas present, it's early, and it's for the party."
And I'm thinking, "Oh cool, punch decanters!"
"How lovely, darling!"
And I open the box and this is what was inside of it...
"Hello." So, Yoga With Adriene community,
I'd love to introduce you to Benjamin, Ben, maybe Benji?
Still very new, six weeks old.
He's a blue heeler, his mom and dad were both blue heelers.
He looks a lot like my "Blue."
When I sent the picture of Benji to my dad, he said
"how do you mend a broken heart?"
(dog whimpering)
I was not expecting to get a puppy
but it's the most kind gesture and very sweet, and again,
the world works in mysterious ways, right my friends?
You're like "I want to go back down and play with my toy."
Well say hello, just say hello now.
Just say hello to the world.
All right, so I just figured we had to get this
out of the way, and so here you go.
Merry Christmas, everyone! Happy New Year!
I love you so much, I'm so grateful
for the community, and I cannot wait to see
what we do together in the new year.
Be kind to one another. Keep it warm.
Chill when you need to, and then
let's get active in the new year, all right?
Happy Holidays from Benji and I,
from Austin, Texas, and from Yoga with Adriene,
We love you guys. Take care.
Namaste.