Admiration Station - February 2024 Members Vlog
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Admiration Station - February 2024 Members Vlog

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<div class="editor-content"><p style="line-height: 1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Welcome to the Admiration Station - that is - your 2024 February Vlog! This video is for member’s only and oh what an honor and pleasure it continues to be to be able to share more here and connect in this way. Grab a cuppa and tune in with me for a bit as we discuss this month’s call to action in our ongoing practice of love, self care and expansion through awareness. GOSH I am looking forward to the year ahead with you! Thank you for being here. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Your sincere admirer,&nbsp;</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Adriene</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38"></p><p style="line-height: 1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Poem read is: </span><em><span style="font-size: 12pt">The Ponds, by </span></em><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/O/OliverMary/index.html"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt">Mary Oliver</span></em></a></p><p style="line-height: 1.38"></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">Every year</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">the lilies</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">are so perfect</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">I can hardly believe</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">their lapped light crowding</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">the black,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">mid-summer ponds.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">Nobody could count all of them --</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">the muskrats swimming</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">among the pads and the grasses</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">can reach out</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">their muscular arms and touch</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">only so many, they are that</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">rife and wild. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">But what in this world</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">is perfect?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">I bend closer and see</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">how this one is clearly lopsided --</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">and that one wears an orange blight --</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">and this one is a glossy cheek</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">half nibbled away --</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">and that one is a slumped purse</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">full of its own</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">unstoppable decay.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">Still, what I want in my life</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">is to be willing</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">to be dazzled --</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">to cast aside the weight of facts</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">and maybe even</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">to float a little</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">above this difficult world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">I want to believe I am looking</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">into the white fire of a great mystery.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing --</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">that the light is everything -- that it is more than the sum</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt">of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.</span></p></div>

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Donna L. Woods
Donna L. Woods2024-02-01 10:37:08 UTC
<p>Last year, I received a subscription to FWFG for my birthday. I was feeling so healthy mentally and physically with a sense of belonging somewhere. It’s been eons since I had felt any of that. But, I have fallen “off the horsie” and that always spirals me into self-loathing. A notice to renew appeared in my email and I thought ‘no way!’ I don’t deserve that gift because I haven’t been using it, therefore, guilt was prevailing. I decided to randomly open the app while I still had it. This vlog. Me crying and renewing. Looking for the horsie and asking it to please help me allow myself to hoist my body back up to sit on the strong back of a supportive community. </p><p></p>
Susan Zoske
Susan Zoske2024-02-03 12:45:08 UTC
<p><strong>Would rather hear about Adriene's specific future plans and plans for the site FWFG.  How is FWFG going to change?  </strong></p><p><strong>Adriene's vlogs used to have more structure and meat on their bones.  The semantics of "admiring" instead of "acknowledging" one's thoughts is okay, as is admiring what one sees in the mirror each day, which is sometimes more easily said than done.  But that takes all of 2 minutes to say.</strong></p><p><strong>I listen to Adriene's vlog for pertinent information to my yoga practice. Thanks for intro-ing the new teacher.  But perhaps Adriene could consider less rambling and Mary Oliver, and more practical (physical and cognitive) information about the monthly practice.  Benji-cam is the best part!</strong></p><p><strong>I really appreciate what Adriene has done.  She is the best teacher for at-home yoga.  Her on-screen presence is unbeatable.  Her distancing from FWFG has definitely been felt.</strong></p>
Cassidy L
Cassidy L2024-02-01 19:59:11 UTC
<p>Thank you Adriene 💗🌼Especially grateful for your acknowledgement of the pain &amp; suffering so many are experiencing in the world right now. Yoga is such a beautiful practice that helps us ground &amp; resource - to reconnect not only to ourselves but to a shared humanity. To unite. Witnessing what is happening in places like Palestine (and many, many other places), for me personally it can feel difficult to stay optimistic. But my yoga practice helps me reconnect to what is important to me so that I can take action, in line with my values and in service of collective wellbeing wherever possible. Wellbeing is a right and is also inherently political - who gets to be well? And why? More and more I'm learning about liberation, and really reflecting on the idea that none of us can be free until all of us are free. I believe the practices you offer ripple far and wide and help us get there with love and compassion. All that to say, thank you 💗💗💗🍉</p>
Paulette Staats
Paulette Staats2024-02-01 15:07:58 UTC
<p>This was the best Vlog yet.  And I've been here a while.  I loved the recognition of the state of the world and that this is your way of making the world a better place.  Your love and your passion radiates out and always reaches so many around the world. Which brings me back to the pond image of the poem. Adriene is the pebble tossed into the pond creating the circles from the center reaching out to all. Namaste.</p>
Sj Stand
Sj Stand2024-02-21 17:29:06 UTC
<p>HI There! Quick question, is there a way to opt out of having viewed videos faded out? Thank you!</p>
Marie KL
Marie KL2024-02-06 01:11:27 UTC
<p>Love love love Mary Oliver </p>
Enya
Enya2024-02-03 10:51:19 UTC
<p>I failed my driving test yesterday, my first time, one small mistake and I would have passed with two minors if not for that one mistake. Immediately I felt like a failure, I practised and meditated with you beforehand and it helped me so much with my nerves. Unfortunately this time it didn’t pay off and I’m sat feeling a bit sorry for myself, I got on the mat today and did a practice to try and shake off the funk. I often struggle to look at the upsides; but you definitely challenge me in a good way to change my perspective on things and not give up. Having done yoga consistently for a few years now is my little way of not giving up and I will be booking another test and “getting back on the horse” and not giving up and using these practices to remind myself that it’s okay to come to the mat not fully appreciating life sometimes but to acknowledge and grow. Thank you Adriene and the rest of the FWFG community, I admire you! 🩷 </p>
Bel
Bel2024-02-03 05:30:42 UTC
<p>Thank you Adriene. The more people in this world like you, the better 💛 p.s. every time my daughter and I see a Blue Heeler, we both say Oooh it’s a Benji! 😁</p>
Brooke Wimberley
Brooke Wimberley2024-02-02 13:20:57 UTC
<p>In case anyone else was curious, Yoga Party is indeed listed as one practice option for Feb 24 😜</p>
DSmith
DSmith2024-02-02 12:32:25 UTC
<p>🙏 sometimes it feels like youre carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, and yet you manage to do it with some much loving kindness. i deeply admire and love you and your community. thank you.</p>