I am practising in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on a cold November morning. My husband died 7 months ago. Today, “I am”... sad. But I am also brave. I am also determined. Determined to find peace. Determined to keep moving towards gratitude and away from grief. Determined to keep moving.

<p>Starts off with 12 minutes in crossed legged. Then extended child’s pose, yoga or froggy squat, lonngggg forward fold, longggg mountain pose, warrior one into humble warrior on both sides, then end in savasana 🙏 </p>

Needed this practice &amp; this community today. I’m posting from Cadiz, Ky, which is about 50 miles from Mayfield &amp; 30 miles from Dawson Springs. Both towns were practically leveled the night before by tornadoes. I am grateful that my small town located between these places was left mostly untouched, but my heart is very heavy and sad knowing they are still trying to recover dozens of people. This practice grounded me as I prayed for everyone throughout the whoke practice. Hope everyone here might say a prayer for these people and their communities. Thanks🙏🙏🙏💔places

Been fighting a bad depression for a while now, grounding like this feels like a good foundation to begin climbing out. Feeling a little better after this today. Thank you. From Alberta, Canada.

<p>A year ago I couldn't do a squat. Side effects from Chemo drugs made it too painful to deeply bend my knees. It was something that just started suddenly one day and really affected my ability to do yoga. It lasted for several months and suddenly was gone. The random side effects are like that. So my gratitude for today, besides being cancer free, is that my knees work without pain again. </p>

TODAY’S HAIKU: honor line of spine - move from a place of connect - ground in gratitude💗. (practicing from my Grace Place

Ahhh! Wow! I am grounded. I am amply supported. I am nourished. I am whole. Moving from a place of loving connect with awareness, gratitude and compassion. I am grateful. I am a warrior of love, peace and light. I am secure. Such an empowering practice. I noticed a shift in the early days of my practice here, thanks Adriene. No matter how my vitals read, my body and mind while practicing were promising. When I started punctuating my comments with ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 as I imagine my energies, my chakras aligning with every physical yoga practice. No toxic thoughts. Exploring all the contents here to better help me make it easier and more sustainable for me free of/from (additional) injuries to practice whenever I am able, thank you! Our intentions manifest. Patience, perseverance, resilience. Complete surrender. Allowing the practice to hone me - back to me. I am guided well by Adriene. No matter what goes on around me, I am grounded in the present moment. That’s such a nice gift. From someone I have not even met. I am honored. I am worthy. Intoned ever so gently by someone who’s not benefitted from me. I am blessed. Apologies, as this is another long comment 💙 I totally love this whole session. Nice exploration of the Root chakra. Filled with helpful information and insights. Your verbal cues helped/s me grow my practice at-home tremendously well. There’s no demarcation line between life-work, (on or off the mat) there’s just one life, and that’s awesome. My heart overflows with gratitude. I don’t have to go to Kathmandu or Lhasa, how cool is that? I am getting emotional (in a good way)…I send you all at FWFG and YWA, my love. As I ground myself into each present moment with awareness, gratitude - balanced, at peace, more compassionate (didn’t grow bitter) and finding joy - having the tools to deftly shift/adjust/modify to Just Be - I am loving life even more. Everything is beautiful (note: shift/adjust…no distress). Prioritizing what serves me well. Creating soft buffers. Releasing everything that’s (so to speak) bogged me down. So freeing! I am cognizant of the fact that the whole community is in different stages/phases of our practice and I send everyone good vibes, all the time. It’s all good, no matter where we are, we have to show up. That has served me well, all the time. Tough but ever so rewarding. We are worthy. We are enough. When the physical-mental-energetic body is aligned and as one, there’s so much space to share love and joy and contentment. Happiness is fleeting, but knowing how to thrive well amidst the chaos, is the best superpower. So I show up. For myself. For everyone. With whatever I have. It’s been so rewarding. In days (so long ago 🙂) when I could hardly breathe…I grew to love pranayama, sitting in awareness, slowing down, moving from my center, the additional contents: workshop/foundational videos and savasana. Those yoga journeys and series as well as full length videos are full of goodwill in self study/love/awareness/care). It’s nice to reconnect and know the inner recesses of my being! And to reset and renew rising up from the fetal position. It’s oh so good! I have been meaning to curb my tendency to overshare my experiences, so I will (try to, in case I relapse 🙂) leave much more shorter comments. 🥰 Please know FWFG team and Adriene, Sumair, Rey, Marnie, Liz, Emily, Cynthia…that the love, respect and gratitude will forever linger in my heart. May we all touch each other’s lives for the better. Peace, Light and Love. Take good care everyone. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

<p>Been practicing with Adriene for five years now, and just now commenting my location as requested in the video. I’m in Edmond OK and would love to make some Adriene loving friends 🩵</p>

I’m in Alberta, Canada🇨🇦

Grounded for the day. Greetings from small Malta !