Center - Day 1 - Show Up 

PNW I’m 72 years old, 125pounds overweight. But “my girls” (7-DIL’s 2-daughters, 3 granddaughters) all began a 30 day squat challenge and invited me to participate in a challenge I felt I could accomplish at the same time, and I found you 🥰I’m excited/ hopeful.

Here in June 2024 because we truly need a strong center these days. Thank you Adriene and Benji for this infinite free content. You have no idea how many lives you are permanently changing because of this.

Here for my February 2024 30 Day Challenge! 😊

Came back here after Flow, I think I might be hooked 😅❤

I appreciate what you said at the start.

Well - that was challenging. All of my least favourite things - downward dog, plank.. I struggled. I was hot & sweaty, tired & hungry. But, I showed up...! And I did it. And I have to be proud of myself for that. As much as it is so hard to focus on the positive instead of the negatives - I'm here, & I did it. I had to stop & take breaks, but I DID it. To all of you out there who struggled with me - you're not alone. Congratulations to us. We did it! :) Thank you again Adriene for this amazing generous thing that you gift to the world each year. I am grateful. Much love to all of you. Xoxo

Hi Adriene came back after FLOW ,starting this month with this series hope I will complete this series too ,lots of love to you Adriene ❤❤❤❤

Good morning! My goal for 2024 is to complete all the Yoga with Adriene 30 day practices. I love how her practices build on skills through the month.

32:16 "“This journey is about coming back. It’s about knowing and understanding who you are through daily practice.” This really hit home for me as it's been a little while since I've spent time on the mat in earnest. My shoulders were burning in that first down dog and while a little voice whispered "you shouldn't have fallen off in your practice" a much louder voice shouted "welcome home!" 2022 had a few rough patches and I'm so excited to be stepping into 2023 with Adrienne and this wonderful community. 30 days here we come! WE ARE STRONG 💪

Awesome 🤩 showing up is by far the hardest part, I’m 6 months post brain surgery & need to get my life back……hopefully this is the beginning 🙏🏻

I finished this journey yesterday and today came back to start it again and... wow. The difference in my strength, control, flexibility, and just confidence is incredible. I remember the first time I did this practice I struggled a lot- there were lots of breaks and modifications but today I was able to move through it with so much more strength. It shows what a big difference just a month can make- I can't wait to go through this all again! Is anyone else revisiting this journey a second time?

Happy 1st dayyy to anyone who's also starting today!! 🥰🙏🏼

I stopped doing yoga due to depression and a severe lack of motivation. I'm so glad to be back and taking the next steps to wellness. I hope whoever reads this remembers, you can do this and you make the world a brighter place.

Doing yoga with everyone from around the world has become a favorite tradition of mine in the new year. I’m truly happy to be here with all of you. Much love and thanks to you Adriene for keeping this yearly tradition alive (with all your hard work and dedication), it’s such a gift. You’re a beautiful soul and I always feel blessed to be a part of this. See you all on the mat and Happy 2023 to everyone.💜🧘‍♀️

Warning post may be tramatic ⚠️ I went to start this in the beginning of January, found out I was 6 weeks pregnant, super excited because I’m 32 and it would have been my 1st baby. I ended up devastated having a miscarriage days after I found out. I’ve distanced myself from my emotions and life the last two weeks. I haven’t told anyone what my husband and I experienced, and I don’t know why I’m writing it in a comment on RU-vid.. I guess I just want to say I started this over to get grounded mentally and physically. I finished day 1 today and I am proud of myself.

Feels good to be here again, it's day 31 for me! I got to 180 days last year and I'm hoping to go even further this year ❤

It has been almost 10 months since I left my mat. Today is my first day back and I am so thankful Adriene is consistent because I have not been. Congrats to all that have finished Day 1! See you tomorrow! Thank you Ariene. Please sing all the Boys II Men!! heart emoji

Happy Day 1 Y'all! I am feeling so many things as we all gather for centering practice. This is truly a magic moment. Check your inbox daily for some extra support and love from me. Or visit the RU-vid community tab to read. I WILL ALWAYS honor and value your time and energy with both the practices and the daily messages. Let's go! When you have the time, do feel free to let me know how you are feeling daily in the comment section below. I will be here daily to read them! With love and respect, Adriene PS: @adrieneofficial is an imposter, the only message or comments from me will have yogawithadriene with the checkmark by them. Sorry about this.

I'm here to continue on from Flow, and I saw a comment that I left here last year! A nice little wave hello from the past :)

Starting this after the 30 day challenge in January 2024. Hi I'm Xavienne. Thank you Adrienne

Good morning everyone. I’m so excited for this series. I’ve been doing yoga with Adrian for 3 years in March. My body craves daily yoga. It’s changed my life. I’m physically stronger,lost weight, less anxiety and stress, more at peace - and I love myself now. Thanks Adrian for showing up on the mat for us. “I can and I will”

Good morning! I have to admit Day 1 was a struggle for me, and harder than I expected. I have been out of practice and I am trying to stay focused on being proud of myself for showing up instead of listening to my inner critic saying if only you have stayed with your practice you would be so much stronger today. My wrists and balance were very off, it is so clear to me why I am here to focus on myself and my health. So grateful to be on this journey with you all!

Just arrived here for my February+ 2024 challenge after having just completed my first 30‐days-yoga-challenge (Flow, January 2024) and pinging for more. Hello fellow challenge-yogis & thank you Adriene for Center!

My equipment for this session was a box of tissues because just sitting down on the mat and hearing Adriene's voice saying that the hardest part is done was enough to make me start crying. My mind has been too busy to even want to do yoga for a long time and I owe my body a lot of showing up. Better late than never, I'm here now.

Practicing with Adriene after a long absence is like coming home. She is welcoming, calming and makes you feel included immediately. 🤗

"it's too early in the series to start singing Boyz 2 Men... is it though?" 😂 i love that Adrienne reminds us not to take yoga so seriously. ultimately it's a joyous practice. thank you, I'm excited for this journey.

Hello to all who started in February. I was ill in January and was so frustrated that I could not do the journey as the videos were released . But I feel a lot better so despite still having some pains in my back and side and a little shortness of breath I made it! I promised myself I would just try and do as much as I can. I am delighted to have completed the whole thing. Slow and gentle although not so easy after a months break. It’s great to be back!

Over 2 weeks late, but I showed up, and that's what matters. I used to love doing yoga and many other forms of exercise but stopped when I got really sick. That was almost 5 years ago at this point. Now I'm nearly 300 lbs and have a bad knee. Doing day one had me crying within the 1st 10 minutes, and I couldn't tell if it was from pain/relief of stretching stiff muscles or emotional release from all the stress and anger I've been carrying. All I know is that I'm glad this is it, and I'll see my future companions who chose to show up tomorrow. I'm proud of you!

So glad that I get to do this 30 day journey with all you lovely hearts from around the globe! Happy 2023 everyone! 😍

I love refreshing the view count after the video is over. Started with 386k views, then 38,000 more lovely people joined the practice with me. I'm excited for Center. Thank you, Adrienne ❤️🫂

It's my 3rd time this year attempting this 30 day challange. Bc of health complications I had to stop the practice 2 times already. Now I'm feeling better and ready to take it on. I hope my health lets me continue. I'm with all of you mentally who are also trying to do this a couple of months late. We got this :)

I have jumped on CENTER after FLOW too. SO happy to be here! Thanks so much. Wonderful to see my FLOW folks on CENTER!

Did not realize how much pain the holiday season left me in; many hours in a car, a stiff childhood bed that's too small, and taking a lot of time off of exercising for family time (which usually means eating). This was such a struggle to get through, but I showed up. On the path to healing

2023 here we are! I know this sounds corny but the last three years of doing your yoga regularly has been so truly healing for me, physically and mentally. It's not always easy to show up but I remind myself that even a little makes such a difference. Thank you Adriene for this gift, so excited for these 30 days!

Starting day 1 on Jan 29,2024 and I am writing this to try and make myself more accountable. Hopefully, I will show up again tomorrow.

Anybody else here starting the 30 days a month late? Better late than never, am I right? I hope I can show up for myself every day during this series.

As soon as I heard "Make a Wish" my brain immediately went to "and blow out the candlelight" and then I had a big belly laugh when Adriene said it was too early in the series to sing Boyz II Men. Does that mean we get to sing it later in the series??

What a beautiful first practice!! I can and I will, You can and you will, We can and we will✨🤍😇

As a certified yoga teacher who really lost her flow, and is extremely picky about taking classes with other instructors (Not cool, I know, I’m working on it) YWA is honestly a God Send. I competed the 30 days Move challenge yesterday, and am now here for the Center journey. I am so insanely grateful for YWA. We are all so lucky to have such a wonderful resource, and light to this community!

Is anyone here May 1st and excited to complete the journey this month? I started a while back but didn't complete it so am ready for the fresh start that May 1 and Day 1 brings! I'd love to hear anyone else's experiences each day along the way. The arms were shakey within seconds of downward dog today, I am looking forward to finding strength and peace again as we go this month with our fearless leader Adriene. Can't wait for tomorrow!

Happy new beginnings everyone! Yesterday Adriene asked us to think about our ‘why’. Why we want to join this 30-day journey? Why we want to do yoga? And as always, her questions stirred up a bundle of thoughts in my mind. I started doing yoga in 2019, and I’ve done my best to do it every single day ever since. Of course, there were days I’d skip a practice because I would feel ill or in pain, or I simply felt lazy, but I still went back to yoga after every break. I can confidently and proudly say I have been on the yoga journey with Adriene for exactly three years now. And I’ve never truly asked myself ‘why’. I thought it might have been because I wanted to lose weight, maintain muscles and strength, but when I gave it a deeper thought I realized that’s not it. If that were the only reason, I would’ve given up a long time ago because I’m still not happy with how I look so evidently yoga is not enough (it’s mostly the brain that needs rewiring). But, as I was rewatching the movie Eat, Pray, Love last night, a movie that sparked up my interest in meditation (moving meditation cause I cannot keep still) and thus started my yoga practice with Adriene back in 2019, I finally realized what my ‘why’ really was. Why I come back to the mat every day and why I am joining this 30-day journey once again. The answer is - I want to learn to live with myself, my true self. I want to change my perception of my self and grow and explore worlds that I have hidden deep inside my body and soul. Most of all, I want to embrace change and become comfortable with it. Change is the only constant and I want to stop fearing it. Like Adriene always says, our bodies are different every day. Well, so are our minds, our environments, our circumstances… and they are always gonna be changing no matter what. And the only way we can learn to embrace that change is by becoming truly comfortable in our own skin. That’s why I’m here Adriene. That’s why I am joining this journey and that’s why I am still doing yoga after three long years.

Feeling a little lost and very tired the last couple of months. My yoga is definitely not where it used to be, but I’m showing up anyway. Day 1 is in the books for the 7th year. Hopefully center will help me return back to me again ♥️

What a gift for anyone on the journey of yoga!

I’m here November 1, 2023 for Day 1! Thank you Adriene.

Yay!!!! I did it! I did it! I did it! After 3 years of relative inactivity as I dealt with loss after loss, I’m back on the mat. Day 1 in tha bag! A bit of a challenge to be honest, but I’m happy to have done it. Onward! Thank you Adriene!!!!!

While I have done the 30 days of Yoga videos before this is my first time participating in January when they are uploaded and I can't wait to experience the community of practicing together at the same time. I wish all of you a beautiful month and beginning of 2023!

Here again, restarting in February 🎉

Watching this in anticipation of starting the challenge tomorrow after finishing Flow today.

I start Center today not as a "New Year's resolution" but as a resolution for myself, a much needed one at that. To make up for the self-love I missed out on last year and to feel the greatness of practicing with everyone else in the world. I hope everyone else had a great practice, it certainly has set my day up right. Namaste everyone

Hello adrien and everyone! Thank you so so so much for todays practice. I’m a yoga teacher in Istanbul. I was having health issues lately. So, I’ve been skipping my yoga practice. Today I’m on my period. My body was stiff. I showed up anyways. Your commitment motivated me! It was like a reunion with my body, I realized I missed it. I missed myself, I missed to be in touch with my body. I felt it and I felt how it’s in pain in some areas, how it’s doing everything it can for me and I appreciate. I wanted to say thank you so so so much 🙏🏼💐 It’s 9 am in istanbul. I have energy to go through this day!

last year i got the flu half way through this journey and fell off the wagon, this year after finishing flow, center will carry me through february!

Day 1 done - God I'm sweating. This was great. Thank you adreine ❤ I'm doing yoga after ages. Need some strengthening and hope ✨ I'm a medical student and this was perfect to do when I'm done with study in the evening. Been doing yoga for a while on n off. I need consistency thereby starting it all over again. And yes I showed up. Breathing in lots of love 🫁

Day 1 ✅ After two years of not doing the 30 day yoga challenge due to some medical things, I'm so glad to be back with all of you. Good luck everyone! And thank you for doing this, as always, Adriene.

I'm 3 months postpartum and today I decided I was going to show up for myself no matter what that looked like. 22min into the practice, my infant woke up from his nap. I accepted that 22min may have been all I could give today. After giving him a bottle, I noticed I still had some time and was abe to complete the remaining 11min. It didn't look like what I wanted and I didn't finish in one, uninterrupted session, but I made it through regardless. That's how I want to show up for myself for the rest of my life.

I realize that this is the moment when I feel recharged. I'm 16 days behind but I'm motivated to come back here tomorrow. This is a note to myself: I'm strong, I can and I will. Thank you for all the feelings!

Always good to slow down again. Really feel each movement. Go back to the basics. Excited for tomorrow

I did this challenge last year when I was in the most active stage of my life. I was gaining muscle, climbing every week, eating well, finally taking care of my body after years of struggling with mental health and eating disorders in high school. Then in early May, I got COVID and it sapped the energy out of me for months. That plus helping my family move cross country and spending a semester in Europe means my body has changed a bit, but that’s ok. The theme of Center means a lot to me, it means I can finally settle after a very chaotic year and retune with my body and movement. Thank you again Adriene and I look foreword to this month!

On a normal day I follow your yoga videos to find centering and calm. Unfortunately I lost my sister to cancer on New Year’s Eve and being centered has not been easy. Yoga has become a major part of my life and I’m forever grateful that you share your knowledge and time with the world. Namaste

Hello Everyone! Good Luck to Everyone starting this Journey like me in February 2023. Hope this brings major changes in my life. Love from India 🇮🇳

Starting this series over! Thank you.

My wrists hurt right now and maybe the only pose I did well was shavasana 😆but I did show up anyway, I'm driven anyway, I know that I can and I will ❣😍🤩🙏 And the best part is that I can feel what a lovely safe space Adriene created here and reading all your comments is so uplifting and sweet 🥰 thank you everybody, see you all tomorrow, love and blessings from Italy 😍💗🌞✨🙏🥰

52. Never did Yoga. Overweight, hip/knee issues. Rheumatoid arthritis. Still want to do it. I made it 13 minutes before my wrists hurt so bad,I had to stop. Doesn't mean I'm giving up. Just means 13 minutes was my first session. I'll be back tomorrow. Update: I did join again during standing poses. I'm proud I made it through the entire video - with short breaks :)

After retiring 6 months ago I have kept myself so busy. I realise I have been a human doing, instead of a human being. I have resolved to increase my yoga practice from a weekly class to a daily session. I am so happy I've found these classes, and am looking forward to working with you for 30 days, Adriene ❤

I'm glad I showed up, and I can't wait for tomorrow.

I'm not going to lie, this was physically tough for me, even at tabletop my arms were starting to shake!! But as an on-and-off again yogi who has been following Adriene's videos for 9 years I'm ready to start my regular practice again after a hiatus. I'm ready for the challenge! Thank you Adriene for always bringing me back to the mat ❤

happy day 1 to all my fellow late-starters! so happy to be on this journey with you all

Who is here after Flow? ❤🎉 Lets get it! ❤

Today is Day 1 for me. I did the hardest part and I showed up. Very excited to continue this program with Adriene!

Always astounding to refresh the video after the practice and see the viewcount increase--I just shared my practice with 17,000 other yogis. Very humbling feeling. Best wishes to all of us in 2023, and see you all tomorrow!💜

Wild to think there are people getting ready to experience this journey for the first time, in for such a treat they may not realize. And wild to reflect this is the first daily practice I ever committed to and was able to experience so many moons ago and what a tremendous blessing it has been all this time. Joy awaits! Much love!

Started today … thank you so much for years after years you still offering us free yoga .. thanks again

Hi, I started this 30-day challenge today, I'm short of breath due to anxiety, and today I tried to try yoga with you to calm down, and the result was wonderful. Thank you, and I wish you all the positive energy and health.

Hello from Greece, I'm Eleni! We are all so grateful for this 🫶🏻 This 30 day yoga journey is going to be amazing! Keep showing up everyone, we got this! ❤️

I’m in a rough place right now, and when you said “move like you love yourself” … I took that away from the mat and it’s helped me a lot. I needed that.

Back for February 2024, 🧘🏻‍♀️🦽Namaste 🙏🏻

I'm coming to this half a year late (but just the right timing for me!) and I just have to a) thank you and b) affirm it's never too early for boyz ii men ;) THANK YOU!

I have NEVER had a more satisfying back crack than what happened to me at 29:00. I started laughing with actual JOY at the release. Thank you so much for the gift!

“Is it too early in the practice for Boyz II Men?”….. No Never! 😂😂😂 I have ADHD and have done yoga for years to help me with it. This practice should have been a breeze, but it was soo challenging, mentally and physically, I’m just grateful I finished it. Thank you Adrien for making showing up the only expectation.

Hi friends, here I am! A month late, but I showed up! I'm happy to be here on this journey with everyone else who may be practicing. I like the idea that I'm starting this on January 31, so this series should actually take me into March! Good luck, everyone

Thank you. Day 1 complete 💚

Good morning everyone! Day 1 practice was great 👍 Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Here to be held accountable. I’ve been missing yoga for the almost 2 years I was dealing with two cancer diagnosis’s. I almost finished your 30 day challenge in 2022, but treatment prevented a lot of things. I am SO happy to be here, in remission, getting my strength back a little each day. Thank you for being here and doing this for everyone! So grateful 🎉

I revisit the Center series often!

Day 1 ✅️: Even though my thoughts say the opposite, Adriene keeps saying that i can so at least i did for today.

Sending everyone reading this and practicing together, Love, Light and Positive energy today and into 2023 💫

I have not done yoga in quite a while, life gets busy and you feel tired and overwhelmed.... when that happens to me I forget that yoga gives me energy and helps me feel SO alive and ready for the day. Thank you Adriene for making this series, I am looking forward to getting back on track with regular practice even after these 30 days are up. Internet world, we got this. We can. You are all beautiful.

I started this journey today (2/27/2023). I look forward to these daily Yoga practicing... Thank you.

Thank you SO much for being a creator. You changed my life

During this practice I was frustrated at how weak my body felt. I’m glad I made it, and I know that day 30 I will feel so much stronger.

I commit to this 30 Day Yoga Journey because I want to show my body love. I’m 4 months postpartum, with a beautiful baby boy who requires lots of rocking and nursing which has been hard on my back and shoulders. I’m heading back to work tomorrow, and feeling so many feelings about that. And I’ve finally decided to stop trying to lose weight. I’ve been restricting (or trying to restrict) what I eat since I was ten years old, always dreaming of someday being “thin enough”. Now I’m working to love my body unconditionally, no matter my weight, and yoga has always helped me feel good in my skin. Thank you Adrienne! Glad to be back on the mat 🙏🏼

Thank you Adriene! Harper Lee, a near Benji lookalike, loves yoga--human beings on the floor!

I am back to practicing after a 6 month pause, and this already made me remember how to feel my body and be gentler with it. Thank you so much, Adriene, and to all of you who comment on these videos, you really make my day as I read through them after each practice ❤

Thank you Adriene for keeping the 30 days yoga challenge alive and thank you everyone for being here together! Sending love and peace! 🙏🏻💚

Hello from Scotland. Just sang in a New Years concert of Handels Messiah, and one of my fellow singers was going home to do day one of the journey. I just got home and did my day one...yeahhhh... thank you Adriene for being there for us all...here's to day two 🙏🥰

I totally forget Adriene does these every year and I’ve just discovered it once again and these got me into yoga in the first place. She truely has such a unique style that leaves me feeling like no other class ❤

I fell off the wagon on my yoga journey but I’m excited to join everyone here on Day 1 to start again

Started tearing up at the affirmation, “I can and I will.” I struggle to love myself daily, but I look forward to getting better at self-love with this challenge. As always, grateful for you, Adriene, and your generosity to share this gift. We can do this, friends. We can and we will.

I have been practicing daily for 7 years with a variety of teachers (and have done all of A's 30 Days at least once), and I do not think I have ever done a standing circular cat-cow. It felt so good and FUN! I loved coming to these poses with a beginner's mind and feeling the challenge in them, then balancing that with softness, ease, breath. Wow! Love you always, Adriene, Benji, and everyone here with us! 💫

I missed this in January but promised myself that I'd do it from 1st February. Here I am today, hardest part done. 30 minutes of pure joy, healing and movement. Loved it! This being my first challenge, I'm excited to see what all feelings and thoughts it inspires in me and how it changes me along the way. Looking forward to tomorrow's practice! Namaste 🧘🏻‍♀️

I just love this community! So many beautiful stories posted in these comments! We did it, we showed up! Thank you Adriene