A week of RISE!

We are kicking off a week of RISE on the Find What Feels Good Yoga Membership and everyone is invited!

Today the mantra is… YES.

Yes ma’am.

Yes sir.

Yes please.

Yes to Yoga – the union, the unknown – the reality of what is and what feels good.

Woah.

Just a little bit of awareness each day goes a long way.

So today’s simple reminder…

Say Yes.

What can you say yes to?

Yes to your yoga practice?

Yes to a water with lemon before your coffee?

Yes to saying “I love you” before “hurry up!”

Yes to forgiveness.

Yes to moving on.

Yes to new beginnings.

Say yes to your neighbor blasting opera at full volume.

Yes to this idea of rising up, rising above and yes to showing up for yourself each day.

Write it down – what are you going to say YES to today?

Now, I know that there is a time and a place where we need to be able to say NO. But when it comes to the RISE launch and this idea of mindful mornings and how that can bleed into our our everyday. I’m saying YES.

 Here are some YES vibes coming from the Kula:

“I just have to tell you, I caved. I’m a grad student on a budget, and I tried to tell myself Rise would have to wait. I just couldn’t. Did Rise Day 1 today. I was so invigorated and so inspired that I immediately cued the Foundations of Flow video and dove into more. Thank you, Adriene, for inspiring this community. Thank you community for being a safe place to learn and grow. Thank you yoga for helping me overcome migraines and computer postures, and encouraging me to eat better and find what feels good. I say yes to my adventures. I say yes to self care. I say yes to not letting setbacks overcome me. Namaste, my friends.”  – Shelly

“I just said YES to a morning with RISE. Yes to yummie, sleepy stretches. Yes to the drive across Europe today with pretty fall foliage all around me. Yes to my giant mug of coffee this morning. Yes to my workplace. Yes to a flat that begins to feel like home. Yes to both parents alive. Yes to internet and a way to find what feels good. Yes to discovering Adriene a year ago. Yes to my daily yoga fix. YES, I am so happy to be part of this kula! Wishing you all a happy day. YES, dare to be happy! smile emoticon I dare. Do you?”- Marta

And here is one of the greatest poems ever written, by the queen herself:

Still I Rise

BY MAYA ANGELOU

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don’t you take it awful hard

’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines

Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I’ve got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame

I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

Yes, 

Adriene

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