- Hello everyone.
Welcome to the Yoga with Adriene vlog.
I'm Adriene and this is Benji, taking a nap.
And I'm here to tell you about my trip to LA.
So the Find What Feels Good Roadshow continues.
This time I did not come home in between,
because that's silly.
I flew straight from New York City to Los Angeles.
♫ "Oklahoma" - Wild Child ♫
So, I'm not complaining.
Everything about this trip and this practice is awesome.
It's awesome work. It's a dream job.
It's an incredible opportunity to connect with real people
who have honest to god stories,
and really, it's just the most incredible motivation
anyone can ever ask for.
But, when you leave the city and you have to get up at 5am
to get in your car...
(pause)
Benji break.
Ok, so the time change got me a little tired, that's all.
But I bounced back. I'm was excited this time.
I'm been staying on the Westside of LA
for the last several trips that I've been there working,
so this time, I was on the Eastside.
Great food. Awesome shops.
A real sense of community.
Great coffee and lots of yoga studios.
So this time, we were going to have our meetup
at a beautiful little studio called One Down Dog.
I had heard great things from fellow Austinites
and other friends about the studio so we hunted them down,
and I mean, you know,
they're awesome people
and they really, there's dogs everywhere
so, it just kind of seemed like a no brainer.
On one of my days off,
I wanted to kind of just location scout a little bit.
We were just trying to find a place to
maybe meetup afterwards.
We weren't sure if it was going to happen this time.
And I wanted to just get a feel for the energy
of the studio itself.
So I went to their Silverlake location to take a class.
I took a really fun and sweaty class that bumps some Kanye
and really kicked my ass, actually.
But it was really awesome.
I hunted down this beautiful mural by an awesome artist of
a dog doing a Downward Dog that kind of looked like Benji.
I think it's based on another dog,
but I'm going to pretend it's based on Benji.
Just kidding.
It's really cool and the studio itself is really beautiful.
The next day we were at the other location.
That's where our LA meetup was.
In Eaglerock.
The class in Eaglerock was so much fun.
It was full of beautiful people.
Also a really diverse crowd.
The back of the room got a little bit sweaty.
I felt bad.
There was the sun shining in the back of that studio,
but there is this sense of like,
there is a heightened sense of we're all in this together
because everyone knows
that I'm setting foot in this room, too, for the first time
which is true for almost everyone there.
Which is also really good for the local studios because
they're getting all of these beautiful, passionate,
authentic, gorgeous, diverse group of people.
These people coming into their studio for the first time.
What am I trying to say? You know what I'm trying to say.
So I think that's a really nice exchange as well.
After the meetup in One Down Dog,
our coordinator was trying to get me over to
the pizza place afterwards.
Ultimately, it's been my life goal to host
a series of pizza and beer meetups after the
holistic, wholesome yoga meetup.
This is something that we've tried to do.
We did have the beautiful afterparty in New York.
But in LA, with the timing and the traffic
and the fact that I had another gig the next day,
it just wasn't working out.
So, I was kind of unwilling
or just not really wanting to go next door,
but we were chatting with people afterwards.
Everyone was kind of chatting and we moseyed over there
and to my surprise
my business partner and friend, Chris, and his wife
whose also one of my best friends, Hila,
and their baby, Flint,
and some other wonderful friends of mine were there,
along with Yoga with Adriene community members.
And they surprised me with a little pizza and beer and wine.
I don't even know what people were drinking,
I was just like, give me the water.
Um, what else?
And cake and just beautiful love. It was so nice.
I'm like, I'm getting flustered talking about it now,
just because it was, it was a surprise.
It was so nice to see everyone there.
It was for my birthday, I should mention that.
♫ Singing Happy Birthday ♫
(indistinct chatter)
But wait, it's not over.
The next morning,
or actually, what am I talking about the next morning?
Right after the pizza party,
this is why I didn't have any beer,
I had previously packed my bags
and I was headed to Newport Beach.
So, I drove to Newport Beach because I had been invited
by some very special ladies to participate
in the last day of their retreat.
And these are my friends over at Tone It Up.
So this is their second annual retreat.
Their first one went so well, that they had to do it again,
this time even bigger and better and I was so honored
to be invited to teach on their final day.
So they do a big booty call on Friday mornings,
Saturday morning, Friday morning.
On Saturday morning, they all ran a 5k,
and on Sunday morning, we surprised all the women
with a Yoga with Adriene session.
It was so fun to just celebrate each other and the movement
and I could tell it was a really nice way
for them to end their weekend.
But it was a really nice way for me to end my weekend, too,
so we really came together in alignment there.
It was so nice to meet the ladies of Tone It Up
and their community is pretty, pretty awesome.
I mean, it's super rich and super positive
and it's undeniable that everyone there is supportive
and there to be motivated and to motivate
and similar to our community in the most honest to god way.
So, it feels really good and so we thought,
yep, that sounds like a good mashup,
so we'll be doing some collaborations with the
Tone It Up ladies in the near future as well.
All in all, Los Angeles, you were a gem.
I got to finish my weekend off
with a little Oceanside dinner
with one of my favorite people.
I got to see the ocean.
It was also that crazy supermoon day.
And I got to have dinner with one of my oldest friends
and my acting mentor, actually, who is now
being a baller at UCLA.
So it was really nice to kind of circle back
to roots in that way and also, you know,
talk about what I've been up to
and listen to what he's been up to
and it was really nice.
I woke up to fly home early, and I was tired,
but I was grateful and happy.
Excited to fly home for my birthday week,
so I could be home with my dog and be around loved ones
and connect and just feel a little bit grounded.
Also get some new clothes in my suitcase, and then,
before you know it, actually tomorrow,
I'm headed out for you Chicago.
First time to Chicago.
Shawshank Redemption.
Chicago, you're out of there!
See you soon.
♫ "Oklahoma" - Wild Child ♫