Pendulum Practice
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Pendulum Practice

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<div class="editor-content"><p><span>The pendulum serves as a powerful metaphor for yoga practice, as both involve balance, flow, and returning to a state of equilibrium. In this 21-minute session, we will move through a dynamic flow that focuses on the spine, the core, and breath regulation. Consider this a moving meditation that is both fluid and stable, strengthening and lengthening, while also heat-building and cooling. Perfect for balancing mood swings and easing you back to your natural rhythm.</span></p><p><span>In yoga, we often experience oscillation between effort and ease, strength and surrender, as well as activity and rest. Like a pendulum, yoga practice inspires us to explore these opposing energies while coming back to center. </span></p><p><span>Honor yourself where you are. Join me on the mat and let’s return to a place of grounding, breath, and stillness together. </span></p></div>

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Noemi
Noemi2024-11-21 08:53:40 UTC
<p>Dear Adriene and FWFG team, thank you for this new practice (always love one with Gate Pose!), but please, where, oh where is our lovely YWA intro with the Shakey Graves music? I really missed it - it felt weird jumping right in! Please never stop using it 🙏🥰</p><p>In fact, it would be lovely to have intros for the guest teachers - I can fully understand it would be complicated to design one for each, but just a little jingle and intro screen?</p><p>I find these few seconds are just what's needed to settle on the mat and transition from the day into my yoga moment.</p><p>Thank you! ❤️</p>
Ashley Damasiewicz
Ashley Damasiewicz2024-11-21 11:12:11 UTC
<p>I recently found out that I'm pregnant (7 weeks today), and while I feel so much joy and excitement, there's a lot of fear in my heart and mind as well. This practice was so perfect for re-centering and reminding me that everything will work out for me as it always has. I did skip the vinyasa each time, since I noticed that the videos on the pre-natal safe playlist don't have it. However, the freedom to listen to my body and do what feels good rather than being a "yoga robot" is just another wonderful gift I've received from Adriene and my home practice. Namaste 🖤</p>
Veronica Carroll
Veronica Carroll2024-11-21 06:26:02 UTC
<p>Thank you. This was such a lovely start to a chilly morning in England 😎</p>
Maria M
Maria M2025-10-05 14:16:55 UTC
<p>Lovely after Full Body Flow. “Effort and Ease. Strength and Surrender. Activity and Rest.” Noticed and marveled at the difference when I gather myself up from a place of connect. Nice core and inward connection practice. I have agency over how I experience this very “…serious thing called Life.” ;) or something like that. Thanks Rilke</p><p>Maintaining my equilibrium. I am grateful for everything, as my practice has my back. I allow the process to unfold and give others the freedom to show who they truly are. Don’t save them from themselves. It’s not going to end well. Trust ;) As I allow the pendulum to swing…I focus on maintaining my balanced state of being. Don’t get swept under! It’s a practice:) that’s well-worth undertaking. Consistently. With integrity. Reverence. Devotion. As it really integrates. I love that I took on this trips to my mat with eyes closed. And I never tire to thank you Adriene for being such a great guide for practicing with eyes closed. I grew to really know all of me…with integrity..as my head focused on my breath, as I listen to my internal feedback transmitters…be amazed at what this container, my body can handle…thanks for everything! Boundaries! Saving graces. No superhero tendencies. 😆 </p><p>I love the gate pose variation here. The pacing, mindful flows, sweet holds…I feel so well-calibrated. Life is beautiful. And to live it fully connected…is a gift I cherish. Thanks Adriene. This morning, feeling like the moon content to just be to reflect the sun (like this space and the highest level in this collective)…that’s enough motivation for me to start my day by connecting within. Because the pendulum swings efficiently and I don’t lose my footing! Uhmm. Yummy! </p><p>Peace. Light. Love. To everyone practicing. We are all worthy. To live our lives eassentially who we truly are. The universe is vast and has infinite space for all of us! Imagine that. There are several permutations. But we only have one life. How we move about our days…thanks for everything, again and again…the journey continues with so much gratitude, I love you Adriene! And everyone here…we are all connected…our good intentions manifest…imagine what’s best for all…🩷🧡💛💚🩵💙💜💙🩵💚 10/05/25</p>
Cloudy
Cloudy2024-11-21 15:52:57 UTC
<p>Great new practice! However, I basically collapsed after about 10 minutes because I couldn’t keep up. I will do this tomorrow at .75 speed. I really need the walking the hands back to forward fold, and I’m just too slow right now. I did Bride of Frankenspine (which features the hands walking backwards to the feet) five times in the last month, and my arms are getting a lot stronger. I’m getting there!</p>
Bente
Bente2024-12-01 13:08:51 UTC
<p>It is my birthday today. I had a lovely moment for myself alone in all the crazyness and I enjoyed it so much. It brought me out of my head, in to my body. Thankyou all!</p>
Delina
Delina2024-11-21 19:21:04 UTC
<p>I'm amazing because I did this practice at my own pace. I was behind Adrienne's speed but that didn't bother me. So, well done me. 🌹🥳</p>
Andrea Hill
Andrea Hill2024-11-21 18:28:55 UTC
<p>I’m in the middle of this workout… and I just saw my reflection in the fireplace glass and when I’m in forward fold or flat back position… I look a little like a question mark… which kind of embodies so many things about myself. I know it’s ok to bend my knees… but should I sometimes look more like a folded over exclamation point? You know… stepping into my power instead of questioning it? IDK. But. I do know that when I straightened up a bit more (no locked knees)… it definitely woke my calves and hamstrings up and they were giving me their full attention lol</p>
Kirstin Rich
Kirstin Rich2025-10-05 17:25:30 UTC
<p>TODAY’S HAIKU: finding my center - i’m letting everything go - capture the magic🙏💗✌️</p>
Aiela
Aiela2025-04-20 08:39:28 UTC
<p>The repetitive vinyasa started to feel frustrating to me and I noticed resistance arising in my body…but then a magical shift happened where it led me to lean into trust, trust that there’s a deeper meaning to all this, trust that there’s a reason and that it will eventually change - what a beautiful metaphor to what’s happening in our lives 🌸🙏🏼</p>