Yoga To Heal Stress | 20-Minute Yoga Practice 

The thing about at home yoga is, it’s all you, baby. The orchestra of science and soul that play out when you choose to show up, press play, and just... Begin again. Wherever you are, With whatever you’ve got. It’s heroic. Really. And you have it in you.

One of the reasons why I absolutely love YWA is that she doesn’t have background music in her videos. I love the silence.

Just wanted to let you know, amiguita, that I’m constantly referring this channel to my patients, who are all struggling with metabolic syndrome: diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and everything that comes with that. Of course, stress exacerbates all of it, increases blood sugar, contributes to mindless overeating, prevents good sleep. The response to your channel is excellent. You’re helping more people than you know. Thanks for being my partner in helping people get healthier and happier. ❤️

12:48 "relax your jaw" *unclenches jaw* caught me

Benji is the goal of all of my practices. For me personally, it's about letting go and surrender. And both Adriene and Benji master it.

Just found out I may have some serious health challenges ahead. Had spent the day thus far with a few tears, and many wandering thoughts. Still trying to process. Hubby of 41 years suggested that I find a good YWA video - and I came across this one. It's a good practice for just this kind of day. Feeling a bit more settled. Thank you all for allowing me to share, and thanks as always to Adriene. Namaste!

This was a perfect practice for me this evening. Thank you so much. It was just what I needed. 💙

Wow what a calming yoga practice, I feel so chilled out after doing this. Thank you Adriene, for such a gorgeous yoga practice. Also I absolutely love little Benji, doing his own calming yoga. I think you've both, just helped to make my Saturday. 😊 see you again tomorrow, Namaste.🙏

Wow!! Somehow I showed up very ready and deliberately. Yoga wasn’t a chore or another thing on my to do list today. I was so willing to start. And the experience was wonderful!! Way deeper and more fulfilling than usual. And don’t get me wrong, I love these sessions always! I feel like I’ve unlocked a whole new level that I didn’t even realise existed. It really matters how you show up. I know you say that regularly and it made sense before but now I feel it too. Thank you!!

Absolutely perfect for me today , been cleaning out the family home of 60 years with my siblings, will repeat this week

Greet Day 18 great practice for the end of the day. I had an overwhelming day today and this really helped me relax for bedtime. Namaste 🙏🏽

Greet, May 18, 2024. Definitely needed this for the morning with stressful days in the mix. Was good to put everything on pause and have a more chill yoga practice today. Stretching is always welcome. Felt called out while thinking of the next meal, the next task, the next, the next, the endless next. 🙄 But soon focused on breathing and de-stressing. Namaste 😌💙

GREET 🌅 | May 18, 2024 | It's been two years since this was on the calendar and I'm for one is so glad it's back! It's sweet and gentle, loving and supportive which is exactly what I need right now during a high intensity work period. Perfect to take my mind off work for a bit. 🙏

Tomorrow I start my first ever full-time job. I can't say I'm not filled with nerves or anxieties about beginning my professional life after university, but having this as today's practice and doing it now before bed was really what I needed to reassure me that stress is something we can heal, sometimes just with a simple breath. Thank you Adriene

Beautiful winter morning outside, the birds are feasting on tallow and sunflower seeds, next a wonderful morning walk!

This was a great start to the day. Glad there was a yoga strap segment in that - I very rarely use mine outside of recreational purposes. Day 445 of the current run.

7 months of doing yoga everyday. Never thought u last this long. Thank you team Adriene and community :)

Totally chilled session for both dog and human!

Day 19 of Greet! ❤ Starting a new adventure tomorrow so, this practice was well received. Thank you!

I love this video: it's long enough to feel the positive effects of dealing with ptsd and stress but short enough that I can do this every day, low energy or not

Good sweet morning to all of you out there! I Love you! Thanks Miss Adriene 😊❤️

Thanks, Adriene you always know what I need. My son who I had at the tender age of 19 and who has always been my greatest gift in this life, is leaving to work in London tonight and I am overwhelmed with emotions. Your voice, your smile, your compassion, your support, your teachings, your practices and most of all YOUR LOVE, has got me through SO MUCH these last 8 months since we found one another. You are a rare and exquisite human being, whom I rave about to everyone who cares to listen. I love you dearly and truly hope mom is well and recovering and enjoying the warm, swimming weather you have. Me in SA ..you in Texas, never having met, I feel so connected to you, like we have journeyed many lifetimes together. THANK YOU Namaste treasured Soul xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Felt crazy tight today and could really feel this stretching my upper back oh my gosh greet

I love Everything about Yoga with Adriene! I've been participating for several years and I love Adriene's joy in what we're doing with her. I'm from the north and I always enjoy her Texas references and sense of humor. I love her awareness of where we may be mentally - "if you're thinking about your next meal or next task - focus on your breath and Commit to the Video"! She's speaking to me! Thank you so much Adriene for everything you do 😘🙏❤

Shanti Shanti Shanti, to all of you in this season. Thanks Adrienne.

Awe, my darling friend! You couldn't close the July calendar off better! Not enough words to measure up to the importance of such a beautiful work. ❤️ Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Dankeschön, liebe Adriene. Nanaste. 🙏🏻

My God, Adrienne - today I just wanna tell you how much I love your channel, and appreciate your teachings and your approach to yoga and to us ❤ You have changed my life and I am forever gratefull 🙏 Namaste!!

Greet day 18🎉 this practice couldn't have been more perfect for today, thank you, Adriene. 💖🧘🏼‍♀️🙏🏻

Just hearing Adrienne's voice grounds me in safety. I have been avoiding this mat time as the stress has built to record levels. So good to be back. Thank you.

My pms is going crazy, I've got finals going down, and an extremely dysfunctional family. You best believe I need this practice

My practice with Adriene is my daily dose of me time! Every time I see Benji , I cannot help but smile. Thank you for including real life into the practice. Namaste

This is sooooo healing! Wow Reminder about Balance indeed! WE / I kinda 'rush' thru to-do bfr NEW YEAR .... (why?!) this flow just set the tone - why? heal / balance All the stress I/we put upon self Namaste to all practising and finding the soothe ;)

Can’t believe Refresh April 2022 is complete. Super soothing practice and I LOVE when they end with cuddling up. So the journey continues, with a new month and a new calendar x

Adriene, I love you. Thank you for the gift that is this channel

I started doing yoga to ease up an old injury. Now it's all about the relaxation. My thanks Adriene, I've been stressed literally all day and in all of 5-10 minutes I felt that all melt away!

I am so grateful for these practices.

My ninth YWA session - loved it. I'm putting a comment on the ones I have done so far. It is now the 21st of December which means I'm always a full month in with yoga every day!

Here at last but not stopping 30/04/2022. I have lost 4kg, felt great each and everyday diligently showing up here throughout since January and the calmness, stillness, softness, gentleness and most of all the silence has been amazingly refreshing and spot on for me..😃😌😌😃Thank you Adrienne from the bottom of my 💖🤗🤗💖 & for your beautiful gifts and for all in this Yoga community, for joining along... it's been a pleasure. Looking forward to another month.🙏🏾🥳🎉🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️🙏🏾🥳🎉....I am pleased. Namaste All🙏🏾🍀🌸🌸🍀

Her voice is a stress reliever for me.

I've done yoga for flexibility, then I went for a run, did yoga for tired legs, and now before I go to sleep this :) Benji's paw was the perfect ending to this day. Thank you ♥

Day 31 of july ❤️🙏 Also today marks my 5 months of yoga!!! I really needed today's video because I've been very stressed... I will forever thank you Adriene for existing!

Thanks for another great month, Adriene and Benji! Looking forward to December's BALANCE.

Oh Adriene. After getting my covid booster shot yesterday, I felt like absolute garbage today. Could barely move! But somehow, divine timing crawled into my day today and sent the perfect practice to me. Any other video would have been restricting, so I am beyond grateful for this. Thank you Adriene

I have really terrible anxiety. I feel like YWA helps a lot. Of course, I have my days where my anxiety is so bad that I am even unable to do some simple yoga. But I also definitely feel the powerful benefits it has when I do manage to complete it. I originally started with the 30 days of yoga last year. I managed to pull through for 30 days and I actually completed it to my own amazement. After that I felt lost, and sadly ended up doing yoga as in when ai wanted, which was almost once a month. Now I'm currently trying to get back into the habit of yoga again and started the playlist TRUE current made it to day 6. As Adrienne says, a little goes a long way. Even if I give up at least I know I can always come back to yoga. ☺️💚. I can't say my anxiety has improved, it may have but maybe I haven't noticed. But I can say that it has made me established more goals such as being able to do the splits and be flexible. I can finally almost touch my heel to the floor in downward dog!! This is definitely thanks to Adrienne. Also, after doing 30 days I was very much strict to what she was doing, but now in true I like to add my own stretches if I feel it's missing something. Which I love. Also, because of my anxiety and OCD I sometimes give up 5 minutes in, but I'll leave it an hour or 2 and try again and carry on 😂 it may sound a bit like a cheat but I feel accomplished if I at least complete the video. Another thing I really love is Adrienne's way if talking about yoga. This may sound stereotypical of me but a lot of the yoga teachers of YT I find talk as if they are some enlightened spiritualist who believe they are also psychic healers or act like fitness instructors and are sort of full of themselves in my opinion. When it's Adrienne she is so comfortable and calming and down to earth with it. Explaining don't worry if you can't do this or that, or everyone starts somewhere. It makes me feel so much at ease knowing i don't have to push myself or work myself to hard. I feel like imthis has taught me life lessons to not push myself to hard. So THANK YOU so much Adrienne. I hope to carry on my journey with you. Can you please do yoga sessions for students? I am a student teenager and would love to see one on exam stress or students stress which could work things like the back, the neck, wrists, feet, cramps. Things to keep you awake but also things to help you sleep because a lot of students panic beforehand. Maybe even a back to school/work yoga session? etc. This was long I'm so sorry to who reads this 😂🙏

Full of allergies today but much better after this relaxing practice! Thank you Adriene xx Namaste 💟💟

Thanks dear, thanks to YWA team ❤️ Namaste 🙏

Thank you Adriene, Daily Yoga is required for stress, tension and anxiety. Perfect practice to do daily when life is stressful. 😊💜🙏

Such a beautiful reminder to come back to the breath. Thankyou, Adriene... I needed this, this morning xxx

Got diagnosed with Anxiety disorder today, the appointment was awful, knew I already had it but these rough past few weeks I could barely get on the mat for my daily practice, I am just glad I am coming back to this, back to Adriene. It is amazing what yoga can do to heal us. Thanks for everything, as always.

I have an anxiety disorder, and especially lately I haven't had the energy to work through it. Although I have to admit what I'm currently stressing about isn't very dire (I have to make an appointment with one of my professors), but reading everyone else's comments who may have worse circumstances than me but who are benefited by this practice too helps. It makes me not feel so alone 💞

Thankyou Adrienne 😊 I have started a new job partime & I have been feeling a lot of emotional swings. Thanks for this one. Lots of love. ❤❤

Refresh Day 30: This has been my favorite month of yoga 🙏 I’ll miss this chill month as we move into Flow 🥲

I just want you to know Adriene that I’ve been watching your videos for the better part of a decade and they’ve helped me through so much. I’m trying once again to build a regular practice, but even the random yoga sesh with you and Benji is just so beneficial. Thank you.

100% needed this. I can say I am a person who hasn’t been attentive to my stress and it has made me physically sick. These videos are one of the only things that help me get through the day.

A lovely calming practice before work here on a dark Scottish morning. Namaste Adriene, Benji and fellow yogis. Anyone doing 'buy nothing Friday' with me? ❤️

So glad I saved the return to this one for the evening. Simply perfect. Still some tightness behind the knee (tendon?) during pulses, but I went easy and it did not lock up. Balance day 29. 451 days in a row.

This isolating yogi swapped today’s practice for Healthy Body Yoga. I need to keep body fit Adriene 😉 see you tomorrow on the mat for our last day of Nurture 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️💞🙏

After a stressful day, and week, the timing of today's video practice on July's "Process" was perfect. For 20 minutes, I relaxed, let go and breathed, and I REALLY need to take the tools off the mat and into life. Tomorrow is another day to choose to show up for myself, to be less anxious and stressed, because I hold the power to do it. I'm going to try. Thank you, Adriene and Benji. Namaste.

Yesterday was a particularly stressful day. Since the beginning of the lockdown, I've come to notice that I've reached a point in my life where I'm comfortable in my own skin, in my professional environment, and where I want to keep going on the directions that I've discovered through my regular introspection. At 28 years old, I'm extremely privileged, lucky and grateful for everything life has come to offer me. And I shall never forget this. Yesterday might have been harder, to the point that it turned my stomach to stone, but I'm alive. I'm happy. I want to do my best for me, my family, my friends, the people I can help and this planet. I feel at peace. Thank you, again, Adriene 💙🙏

And so ends another month of yoga and a few other things too of course. Love you, Adriene.🥰

Just completed YWA Process July 2021 - thank you Adriene for guiding me to practice every day through July - made a transatlantic house move in June and lost my yoga way a little with all the packing and jet lag, very thankful to be back on track and looking forward to August - sending love to the YWA community, happy Saturday from Suffolk, England. xox

Dear Adriene, I'm so grateful for your gift of sharing yoga and welcoming me as I am. Somehow, each day that I hit the mat, you seem to know the exact words that my heart and soul need to hear. I feel seen, held, connected and like I can breathe. I can remember my breath. I've been holding it for a long time. I thank you, bow to you ... Namaste

Thank you for supporting me through this month☔️♥️🙏

My favorite part, Benji’s paw! Thank you Adriene and a Benji for always making me smile! 🙏🏼

I got tears in my eyes as soon as I saw the title of the video... yeah, I need this. so grateful I found this video!

Thank you again and again.♥️

I find so much peace with Adriene's yoga.

A nice way to end November , thanks for the Nourish calendar, so appreciated.

Ground day 28! Day 55 of return to YWA. Swapping out day 27 because I am getting a late start. Plus, the full moon is coming so there's a chance I will have a headache around that time and really need that practice, lol. I just love when Adriene tells us to hop into something comfy, even if I am always in something comfy in my apartment. 💜

Process Day 31: When I began the YWA calendar in January I was planning on committing to do yoga every day for that month, but it's been seven months and yoga is now part of my morning routine! I'm looking forward to Cultivate.

🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ I want to say to you Adrienne… during this wee challenging bend in my journey which is laced with so much celebration of break free of so many of my limiting notions with presence practice YOUR PRESENCE THRU THESE VIDEOS FEELS SO REAL and intimate. Thanks for being so creative, fun and original 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

I did it, 30 days in a row with yoga 🙏 Nourish was really good, can't wait for December and then starting 2022 in January with a new video every day 😊 thank you, Adriene and all others helping us all keeping it up 🤗❤

This is definitely a practice I will be returning to! So nourishing and loving to the breathe and body. During my practice today, my cat got curious and rubbed up on me and I gave her pets intermittently and it was a great opportunity to be aware of my body and be in the moment! Thank you Adriene!

Adriene, I'm ALWAYS thinking about my next meal )))

Had to skip ahead a few days in the July '21 calendar- but had a headache and this practice cured it. Thank you as always, Adriene. I listened to my body and what I needed, pushing past the desire to "stick to schedule" or do a more intense practice video.

Just completed three months in a row of yoga, so happy to be a part of this lovely community & I cannot wait for more :D

Did this when feeling low. Afterwards felt so connected and cared for ! Felt like Adrienne cares, like she made the video with the intention to let someone like me know that you matter and you’re not alone, here is this video to help you. Much gratitude for many years of this work! 💗

Celebrating 365 days with Adriene and Benji! I am so grateful for these videos and all they have taught me, both in mind and body. Thank you!❤️

I always cry during your videos because you somehow always know what I need. You help me let go of all the hard things I carry around, and I'm so grateful for you and for this practice.

I swear you're a mind reader. This couldn't have come at a better time. I lost my job on Friday because my anxiety has gotten the better of me for the past few years. I'm trying to reduce my stress levels and use this as an opportunity to heal and reinvent myself in a more mindful way. This practice is step one. ❤️

I think this is my new favorite! The twenty minutes flew by and I feel relaxed.

More videos should use 2 pillows for resting postures. That was lovely.

I think my favourite thing about your videos is how quiet and peaceful they are. A lot of exercise videos, or even videos on stuff like how to crochet have music playing underneath. When I do your videos, I feel so much more connected to the yoga because of the quiet and just listening to your voice. I love it.

Love ❤️ lovely. Very calm. Thanks very much Adriene. Blessings family.

Refresh day 30, ah very relaxing. I wanted to stay put but have things to get done, off to face the day! Was a wonderful calendar this month and helped me get through a month that in the past had been repeatedly stressful, now that the cause of the stress is gone I still find myself getting high strung and this practice reminded me that everything is ok now 💙 Namaste

Finishing a month of yoga, again, and it always feels like the first time, I always get emotional. thank you very much, Namaste to all!

Thank you Adriene for a whole month of extraordinary Yoga, you always deliver and keep in good form. God bless and stay safe. Totally indebted to you for your commitment and support, most specially sharing you talent, skill, knowledge and expertise with em and the World around me. Much Love ❤️I prayer Mom is doing good, God bless her too. Namaste 🧘🏽

This was sooooo restful on a Friday evening right after work!

Thank you Adriene.

I stayed a little longer on my mat and had a full on laughing fit for a few minutes for now reason haha, just positive energy that had to go somewhere... :D Thank you for this month, I cant wait for the next! I send love your way, Namaste ☀️

Blessed Beloved Beauties! The final Day - 30 of the Refresh Journey was the perfect way to end the month. It has been a stressful one. I adore this practice. I fell asleep 😴 and chose to practice at 10:00 PM. It was awesome to end my day this way. Namaste and Ase! 🦋♥️🦋

👍last day of process. I got through 20 practice this month. I have recovered my pre covid breath and strength. Thank you! Looking forward to august ✌

I appreciate you and your work so much! Thanks Adriene, I watched your videos for the first time 6 years ago and am still here often ❤

Thank you Adriene. You’re a bit of a hero to me since this helps me so much with managing my PTSD.

Too caught up with work pressure overseas that I always comes back to your videos whenever I feel that my mental health is on its verge. The simplicity and genuity of this practice helped me a lot. Thanks with lots of love, Adriene and Benji!

U posted this at the perfect time, it’s exam week rn 😔

Making turkey just for two and feeling thankful, but also alittle sad and nostalgic. Better now after this practice.

I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night, so this slow, gentle practice was perfect for me (though that last pose was dangerous; I was so comfy and zenned out that I nearly fell back asleep! 😅).

Magical pillow moment!!! The body let go more and more with each breath cycle!!!

Somehow even though I went into this practice feeling like I wasn’t stressed, I realized I actually was and ended up feeling amazing by the end. I’m so glad Adriene found her way into my life.