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<p>Birthday Month!</p><p><br></p><p>But not in an annoying way,</p><p><br></p><p>in an <em>us</em> way.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are here, chances are you have done a <strong>Yoga With Adriene </strong>YouTube video. </p><p><br></p><p>YWA turns 9 this month, can you believe it? </p><p><br></p><p>And we are celebrating.</p><p><br></p><p>As a thank you to you dear members, in particular, I am uploading a little something here on Sunday! Un regalo! A gift! And Benji helped!</p><p><br></p><p>Check back in and be delighted, feel loved. I appreciate you.</p><p><br></p><p>We are also committing to a RESET month together, but not without first asking ourselves a couple of <em>real</em> questions to make sure we are doing right by ourselves, truly.</p><p><br></p><p>There is no I in TEAM! But there is an I in BENJI!</p><p><br></p><p>Join me for our monthly vlog, and this special month of party and practice.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Visit here for this month’s practice calendar.</p><p><br></p><p>Visit here for the fwfg shop - which will be transitioning soon so get your fwfg socks now! ; )</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em>Poem is </em><strong><em>For Your Birthday, </em></strong><em>by John O’Donohue </em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em>Blessed be the mind that dreamed the day</em></p><p><em>The blueprint of your life</em></p><p><em>Would begin to glow on earth,</em></p><p><em>Illuminating all the faces and voices</em></p><p><em>That would arrive to invite</em></p><p><em>Your soul to growth.</em></p><p><em>Praised be your father and mother,</em></p><p><em>Who loved you before you were,</em></p><p><em>And trusted to call you here</em></p><p><em>With no idea who you would be.</em></p><p><em>Blessed be those who have loved you</em></p><p><em>Into becoming who you were meant to be,</em></p><p><em>Blessed be those who have crossed your life</em></p><p><em>With dark gifts of hurt and loss</em></p><p><em>That have helped to school your mind</em></p><p><em>In the art of disappointment.</em></p><p><em>When desolation surrounded you,</em></p><p><em>Blessed be those who looked for you</em></p><p><em>And found you, their kind hands</em></p><p><em>Urgent to open a blue window</em></p><p><em>In the grey wall formed around you.</em></p><p><em>Blessed be the gifts you never notice,</em></p><p><em>Your health, eyes to behold the world,</em></p><p><em>Thoughts to countenance the unknown,</em></p><p><em>Memory to harvest vanished days,</em></p><p><em>Your heart to feel the world’s waves,</em></p><p><em>Your breath to breathe the nourishment</em></p><p><em>Of distance made intimate by earth.</em></p><p><em>On this echoing-day of your birth,</em></p><p><em>May you open the gift of solitude</em></p><p><em>In order to receive your soul;</em></p><p><em>Enter the generosity of silence</em></p><p><em>To hear your hidden heart,</em></p><p><em>Know the serenity of stillness</em></p><p><em>To be enfolded anew</em></p><p><em>By the miracle of your being.</em></p>