✨Curious what happens after 365 days of yoga? How about a decade of a consistent yoga practice? Yoga fam, this is a special video from me to you about how yoga has transformed my life both on & off the mat, and why it can do the same for you! I can’t wait to hear all about your yoga journey - share it in the comments below! Allie, xx Psssst... Searching for a like-hearted yoga community to support your on and off the mat transformation? Sign up here for the Body Mind Soul Waitlist - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL
How do you overcome daily obstacles? For example, i wake up every morning at 3 am so I can do my practice before work, since I can't guarantee I will have time later. If I feel tired or sleep through my alarm, I end up telling myself I will get it inlater then I end up skipping the day. Im in YTT right now, but its online, and im having a hard time with a husband, 4 kids, a full time job that pays well yet I hate it...I just find myself hitting a wall no matter what way I turn. Any advice? I live in the middle of nowhere so my days are 1/5 driving also. I just feel like when I finally finish ytt I am afraid of feeling like a fraud because I didnt commit my daily practicing as I could have and the online aspect makes me feel like I didnt earn what others did in person. I've been doing this self taught forabout 6 years.
Allie, I started my yoga Journey 4 years ago this summer I began with yoga with Adriene YWA & JJ Tribe & Brett Larkin. Thank you so much for being such a great yoga instructor 😊🤙❤ See you on the mat babes 😊
Thank you for sharing your journey. My daughter suggested I try yoga to help me with my heart failure recovery. Sadly my daughter died from an undetected heart problem, at the age of 24, a month after I started practicing. I never got to practice with her but she is with me every time I step onto her mat. Tomorrow I will be a five year heart failure survivor and yoga is an important part of my life and now as a teacher I can help others discover the wonderful gift of yoga. Cheers
Oh, Glenn. I can't imagine your grief and am holding you and your daughter close in my heart and thoughts. Truly grateful you are here and sharing your compassion and gift with others. 🙏🏼
Yoga helped guide me thru addiction and loss 💚 still, with allies help I get healthier and happier every day! Happy to say I'm almost 2 years sober 🥰🧘♀️
Had never even thought about doing yoga. Found this Journey Junkie website years ago whilst googling How to Make a Dreamcatcher. Found you. Found yoga. Signed up for your first paid course the BMS Detox in 2017. Got a beautiful mala with a handwritten note from you for registering. Freaked out to realize you were a real person. Gained the confidence to go to a studio in my hometown. My first in person class at home was also a Bikram class (on a Groupon :)). Joined you on retreat in Bali in 2019 at one of the lowest points in my life. Came home a different person. Yoga (& you) have seen me through soooo much. So thankful
My therapist recommended Yoga to the People in NYC for my PTSD. Started with Vinyasa yoga there and have expanded greatly. Yoga got me through the pandemic😊
YOU were my first yoga class, 3.5 years ago. I love you. I have no idea how I found you but I am glad that I did. Thanks for teaching me how to breathe.
Hi Allie. I’ve been practicing yoga for the last 25 years. For me it’s been like an old friend. Don’t see them all the time but when you do it feels great. I. came to yoga through a Rodney Yee video (on VHS ...dating myself here lol) I completed my YTT 200 hour in 2017 and have never looked back. You truly inspire me. I am hoping to find the courage within to branch out and take the risk on my own. Have some work to do still...it’s a journey. You are truly authentic and your words speak directly to my soul. Not by chance that I tuned into this video. Thank you 🙏.
I love hearing your yoga student and teaching journey, Lisa! So glad you're part of this yoga community & that you tuned into this video with me. And I hope you'll check out the Body Mind Soul Studio for a like-hearted, supportive & authentic yoga fam - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL❤️️
I first heard of yoga from an old alternative health book collection my mom had. I’d try the poses myself growing up but attended my first class when I was 17 as cross training for my intense ballet schedule. I’ve been hooked ever since! Love hearing your journey Allie!
I have been watching your videos for a while now… and can safely say you are my favourite online yogi. This video has come up at such a perfect time and resonates so much. Thank you so much for sharing, I’d love to see more chatty videos with you, you tell stories wonderfully 🙏😘
Welcome to our yoga community, Abigail! Thank you so much for stopping by and stepping on the mat with me, I'm so grateful you found what you needed here! I hope you'll check out my FREE 7-step Yoga Reset Guide for more on deepening your yoga practice and connecting to body, mind + soul - yogaresetguide.com ❤️️
Loved this Allie. Loved learning more about your journey. I was kinda surprised when I did the math after your video to discover that I have been practicing yoga for around 9 years now 😮 I will continue…
I started doing yoga many years ago at a beginners class and loved it but found it hard to get to classes all the time. Fast forward a few years and I was introduced to you tube!!! At first I did it just sporadically…but a few years ago Nov 2017 to be exact, I decided to try and do yoga every day. And besides the time I had pneumonia and didn’t do yoga for about a week…I have sone some sort of yoga every single day! I love it so much and it is so ingrained in me now that if I don’t have time to do it in the morning (which is rare because I make the time)… I feel like my day is not right until I complete my practice. My family are very supportive (as are my pets), so much so, that my kids know that on Christmas Day the fun does not begin before Mum has done her yoga. It is because of wonderful teachers like you who are there for me everyday on you tube that I am able to do this, and it has truely changed my life. I feel I can focus a lot more and let go of the little things which used to totally annoy me a lot more easily. I’m sure I am a much happier person to be around, and I feel like I am doing the right thing by my body by staying active every day.
Allie . . .I love you! My first Yoga Journey was very similar. It was 12 years ago I found Kurt Johnson and he did yoga sessions for example just on headaches or PMS, anxiety, very ailment specific. I also was partying so much. I don't even know how I was functioning. I tried it and I felt immediately cleansed. I've been practicing on and off ever since. As it stand right now I imagine the consistency of the actual movements on the mat vs thinking about it. My body is not feeling good right now just do to more consistent patterns of inactivity as I build my business vs patterns of activity. 😊
From South Africa, thank you Allie for this video. I have been following you for about a year now, and yoga has brought me so much peace, change and transformation thus far. I am absolutely loving yoga and your classes. Much appreciation for your work and inspiration.
I started doing yoga a few years ago. I love to work out with weights, but my journey of yoga is more for the heart and soul, which your classes and courses really help me to truly understand what I want and need out of my life.
I started yoga about three years ago because I had back pain that was coming back again and again. I started with Mady Morrison and very soon discovered you when I was looking for a video for the psoas. My back has become so much better and yoga has become a part of my morning routine.
You're amazing Allie. Thank you for being such a great teacher. I've been subscribed to you for 2 years now and your channel has helped me center myself numerous times. I'll make the effort to practice more. Whenever I stop practicing I find myself feeling stagnant and the moment I go through one of your videos you somehow manage to free that stagnant energy each time. Thank you again 💎
💋Allie, You look beautiful! Yoga is most definitely life changing! You have been an important teacher on my journey. I adore you and hope that more people will be lead to your channel etc. Continued Blessings and Support. ~Love&Light💖Carli P.S. My first time on the mat I knew I had come back home to my true self. I must do yoga it’s such a huge part of my life.
So it is. Yoga changed my life on and off the mat. Living and sharing the Yoga way of life. Love ur vids Allie keep on and ur a great inspiration for all of us to live life the Yoga way. Thanx
When I was 22 and pregnant with our first daughter, I started doing Rodney Yee yoga for back care - for obvious reasons! Prior to that I was busting my ass trying to do the “skinny things“ like running 5 miles a day, fitting into a size 4, eating a lot of lettuce, and being all the things the fitness magazines said we should be. A perfectionist, people pleasing, scarcity mindset gal. After turning 38 in May, I am joyful to say that I am 💯 comfortable with a size 10 after two children, do NOT run 5 miles a day, do NOT bust my ass pleasing or looking like what others may want me to. Instead I DO practice yoga in all of its glorious forms - asana, meditation, nidra, pranayama, Ayurveda and stay tapped into nature as well as the heart by growing our own food, gardening, hiking, giving away flowers, utilizing the tools of compassion and abundance mindsets. Perfectly imperfectly of course and I’m Totally cool with it being that way thanks to this almost 2 decades long practice!! Game changer!!! No … LIFE changer!
We were at an all inclusive music festival in Mexico and one of a band members wife has a studio and had a daily yoga class. The last day we actually went to it even though we talked about doing it in the Dominican at the last holidaze. Ever since then I practice often (almost daily) and even made my own yoga studio in my basement. Thank you for your videos and your love of yoga! You inspire me ❤️
It is this is going to be national appreciation day this yoga practice has helped me transform my life help my relationship and help me communicate with better better with people and make an amends this has been a good process for me thank you bunches
I totally remember my first yoga class. I am a nurse and I was running an adult and pediatric cancer center. I was in a tough marriage and trying to be a good mom. I remember walking to my car feeling a complete transformation. This led me to begin my practice I went on to get my 200 hour. I then moved to Colorado and then finished up my 500 hours. I only wish I would have started earlier.
What a beautiful experience, Beth! Thank you for sharing this with our yoga community, so glad your journey brought you to sharing your love of yoga with others! xx
Dear Allie nice to hear your yoga journey . I did yoga and aerobics since my teen age. After marriage not daily. But then I started yoga again 4years ago regularly. I do yoga at morning and it changed my life before that it was very difficult for me to sit down on the floor and stand up . My joints were stiffened and now I can do all yoga asanas even that yogi squats. I'm 53 years old and feel good by yoga. Then I found you and other people like Sarah beth , Dr. Mellisa west , kassandra and Adriene . I love to do yoga with all of you. I always like your boat and yoga. Stay happy and safe.
I'm so grateful you found what served you in this yoga community, Sunbila! What a beautiful yoga journey. Sending that same wish to stay happy & safe to you! xx
I love every word of this! Yoga is amazing! I wish more people would "catch on"! You are a living, breathing inspiration and I will share this video with everyone I know! Keep spreading the word and spreading the love!! xo
Brava Allie! Thank you for sharing your story. I am on year 32 of my yoga journey and am forever grateful...Wishing you further success...Pace e Bene(:
My first yoga class was a dvd I brought at Walmart. I wanted to try some other kinds of exercise not thinking that yoga would change my life in so many ways. More than I could have ever imagined. 🙏
Hi Allie, I just found your channel. I've been practicing yoga for 10 years now, I started right here on you tube, practicing with Yoga with Adrienne. I fell in love with it. While I love her classes I found myself looking for new teachers to see what else I can learn, because as I got more and more involved in the practice I've learned there is so much more!!! I really love your classes. I enjoy doing your videos as well as all the other teachers right here on you tube.
I started yoga in high school, 18 years ago. I have been doing it regularly ever since, despite several years of 60-80 hour work weeks in the past. It helped me through the stress of medical school, residency, my husband's year-long Iraq deployment, my own near-fatal childbirth, my daughter's 2 month NICU stay and subsequent year of health issues. I know I would be a worse person without it. It grounds and centers me and helps me to remain grateful and present.
I am so happy you mentioned that I didn’t have to do asanas to do yoga. I have a very bad back and knees from arthritis but always wanted to practice yoga. You’ve given me hope.
I'm so grateful this resonated with you, Jeanne! I truly believe yoga is so much more than asana and hope to support your yoga journey here. If you'd like, I'm including a compilation of my pranayama & meditation videos here - ruclips.net/p/PLUTRhGw66uD6d5_r3oZyuJ7d4bcEB5Wr5 and my gentle and restorative practice to explore here - ruclips.net/p/PLUTRhGw66uD6AbJeaqZOwDMTUN20Y4Exm ❤️️
My first class happened because a neighbor gave me a pass to a local gym which so happened was across the street. I stepped into my first Ashtanga yoga class, clueless, stiff and I hated it. I hated it because I didn’t like the fact that I knew my body or so I thought, my instructor however kept telling me not yet your not ready. Oh the start of my yoga journey. I have always been active but yoga transformed not just my body but my attitude towards life. Long story short, fast forward a few years, I took a teacher training course from the instructor! Ashtanga has been a spiritual as well a physical discipleship.
What a beautiful transformation you had both on and off the mat! Thank you for sharing with me and joining me here. I hope you'll check out my FREE 7-step Yoga Reset Guide for more on deepening your yoga practice and connecting to body, mind + soul - yogaresetguide.com ❤️️
My biggest take away - keep going! My partner and I have been doing yoga nearly every day for 6+ months now and it has truely changed our lives as you have explained. We live, eat, and sleep, what our practice calls for us to do and making time for that had become a huge priority, which has caused friction with people in our lives who don't get it. Videos like this are so encouraging for our long-term practice. Thank you for the reminder and inspiration 🙏
So well said, Emily! Keep going!!! Thank you for that inspiration for our yoga community. And if you and your partner are looking for a like-hearted yoga fam to cheer you on, I hope you'll check out the Body Mind Soul Studio - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL ❤️️
My first yoga experience was with my best friend in her living room. Her dads girlfriend had gotten her this nice yoga set that came w a dvd and we tried following that but it was so unenthused. It was just going through the motions and we didnt really vibe with that. I then found your channel and we started practicing with you all the time ❤ I have fallen out of out the practice bc my life has been so crazy, but I am determined to get back on my mat after watching this ❤❤
I'm so grateful you found what served you in this yoga fam, Grace! Please be easy with yourself, there are seasons, ebbs and flows in our practice. Applauding this intention & I'll see ya on the mat! ❤️️
wt a wonderful journey.i've been practising yoga for 20yrs.it started at d gym n i wld join all d morning yoga classes.initially i was driven by d challenging poses n was rather competitive.over time, i became appreciative of d introspective quality of yoga n i got calmer n more centred.now i do yoga daily at home(gyms r still closed) cos yoga makes me feel good n i don't obsess over certain poses anymore.just move with d flow😀
Thank you for sharing your wonderful yoga journey with our community here, Idrus! That competitive drive rings so very true, I'm grateful you've also found that introspection in your practice. And for more on deepening your on + off the mat practice with a like-hearted yoga community, I hope you'll take a peek at the Body Mind Soul Studio - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL 😊
I began yoga training at 34 by following Roxy Shahidi's dvds and later youtube. In between that time I was taught by Leah Bracknell who, sadly passed away a while a go. Now I follow your vids which are amazing.
so crazy!!! Yes I first discovered yoga when I was 21, 5 months pregnancy and..I really couldn´t understand none of it!! I¨ve always practiced different physical activities and couldnt see the point of some asanas, keeping there in some confusing stillness... so i took 2 classes and gave up...20 years later...yes, I started yoga again, and now the experience was absolutely different, I kind of started falling in love with it...then I did my first trip to India, continued practising yoga, then I got even more passionate about it, then second trip to india, I did TTC on Yin Yoga and came back and remodelled my house to start with my own yoga studio...and here I am!! i´m still going through a transition, in the morning i keep on working at school, but the idea is to give up and devote myself entirely to yoga and maybe chi kung since I´m studying Chinese medicine and Chi kung...Waiting to come back to india to continue going deeper!!! and of course I do love practicing with you!!! Thanks
What an amazing & inspiring journey, Gabriela! I'm so grateful you shared with our yoga community & absolutely love that you're continuing to dive deeper! I hope to see you in our studio fam when the doors reopen for a like-hearted yoga fam & daily on and off the mat yoga to deepen your practice - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL ❤️️
My first yoga class was in Tulum Mexico.. I had done yoga a few times prior with DVDs with my mom when I was in high school but my first actual class with other people was in Tulum Mexico on the beach three years ago and I fell in love and haven’t stopped since.
What a beautiful journey to your practice, thank you for sharing with our yoga community, @The Tower of Tarot! Absolutely love that your mom shared yoga with you and how cool to have your first group class on a beach. And hey, if you're searching for more community & connection with a like-hearted yoga fam, I hope you'll check out the Body Mind Soul Studio - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL❤️️
I’ve been doing yoga for a long time ever since three years ago has transformed my life transformation my life and change my life and I’m gonna live and I go to church gods ife
My first yoga class a friend led me in in a hot upstairs empty unfinished employee apartment on a private island in Panama, just us two, trying to tend our bodies. Anticipating gentle flexibility-focused stretches, I found my friend kicking my ass with unknown strength, grace and calm, poise and intensity, and peaceful presence. I finished our hour or so panting and awakened to the hidden capacity in whatever we might overlook pursuing hurried lifestyles.
✨Curious what happens after 365 days of yoga? How about a decade of a consistent yoga practice? Yoga fam, this is a special video from me to you about how yoga has transformed my life both on & off the mat, and why it can do the same for you! I can’t wait to hear all about your yoga journey - share it in the comments below!
Allie, xx
Psssst... Searching for a like-hearted yoga community to support your on and off the mat transformation? Sign up here for the Body Mind Soul Waitlist - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL
How do you overcome daily obstacles? For example, i wake up every morning at 3 am so I can do my practice before work, since I can't guarantee I will have time later. If I feel tired or sleep through my alarm, I end up telling myself I will get it inlater then I end up skipping the day. Im in YTT right now, but its online, and im having a hard time with a husband, 4 kids, a full time job that pays well yet I hate it...I just find myself hitting a wall no matter what way I turn. Any advice? I live in the middle of nowhere so my days are 1/5 driving also. I just feel like when I finally finish ytt I am afraid of feeling like a fraud because I didnt commit my daily practicing as I could have and the online aspect makes me feel like I didnt earn what others did in person. I've been doing this self taught forabout 6 years.
Do you have a list of book recommendations anywhere? Thank you!
Allie, I started my yoga Journey 4 years ago this summer I began with yoga with Adriene YWA & JJ Tribe & Brett Larkin. Thank you so much for being such a great yoga instructor 😊🤙❤ See you on the mat babes 😊
Thank you for sharing your journey. My daughter suggested I try yoga to help me with my heart failure recovery. Sadly my daughter died from an undetected heart problem, at the age of 24, a month after I started practicing. I never got to practice with her but she is with me every time I step onto her mat. Tomorrow I will be a five year heart failure survivor and yoga is an important part of my life and now as a teacher I can help others discover the wonderful gift of yoga. Cheers
Keep on brother 🙏🏼♥️
Oh, Glenn. I can't imagine your grief and am holding you and your daughter close in my heart and thoughts. Truly grateful you are here and sharing your compassion and gift with others. 🙏🏼
Keep on practicing. She was giving you a MAJOR HINT!
Yoga helped guide me thru addiction and loss 💚 still, with allies help I get healthier and happier every day! Happy to say I'm almost 2 years sober 🥰🧘♀️
WAY TO GO, Kayla!! Celebrating you, this huge milestone and the work you put in on and off the yoga mat! ❤️️
@@YogawithAllieVanFossen Thank you so much Allie! 💜💜
Had never even thought about doing yoga. Found this Journey Junkie website years ago whilst googling How to Make a Dreamcatcher. Found you. Found yoga. Signed up for your first paid course the BMS Detox in 2017. Got a beautiful mala with a handwritten note from you for registering. Freaked out to realize you were a real person. Gained the confidence to go to a studio in my hometown. My first in person class at home was also a Bikram class (on a Groupon :)). Joined you on retreat in Bali in 2019 at one of the lowest points in my life. Came home a different person. Yoga (& you) have seen me through soooo much. So thankful
Love you Tommie and the transformation you've gone through. Thanks for letting me be part of it ☺️
My therapist recommended Yoga to the People in NYC for my PTSD. Started with Vinyasa yoga there and have expanded greatly. Yoga got me through the pandemic😊
I'm so glad you found what you needed on & off the yoga mat, Elijah! Thank you for sharing your yoga journey with me & our community here 😊
Amazing! Namaste ♡♡
YOU were my first yoga class, 3.5 years ago. I love you. I have no idea how I found you but I am glad that I did. Thanks for teaching me how to breathe.
Hi Allie. I’ve been practicing yoga for the last 25 years. For me it’s been like an old friend. Don’t see them all the time but when you do it feels great. I. came to yoga through a Rodney Yee video (on VHS ...dating myself here lol) I completed my YTT 200 hour in 2017 and have never looked back. You truly inspire me. I am hoping to find the courage within to branch out and take the risk on my own. Have some work to do still...it’s a journey. You are truly authentic and your words speak directly to my soul. Not by chance that I tuned into this video. Thank you 🙏.
I love hearing your yoga student and teaching journey, Lisa! So glad you're part of this yoga community & that you tuned into this video with me. And I hope you'll check out the Body Mind Soul Studio for a like-hearted, supportive & authentic yoga fam - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL❤️️
I started with Rodney too! Thx for sharing your journey! You should take the risk!
Me, too with the Rodney Yee video, Lisa! 18 years ago!
I first heard of yoga from an old alternative health book collection my mom had. I’d try the poses myself growing up but attended my first class when I was 17 as cross training for my intense ballet schedule. I’ve been hooked ever since! Love hearing your journey Allie!
I have been watching your videos for a while now… and can safely say you are my favourite online yogi. This video has come up at such a perfect time and resonates so much.
Thank you so much for sharing, I’d love to see more chatty videos with you, you tell stories wonderfully 🙏😘
Welcome to our yoga community, Abigail! Thank you so much for stopping by and stepping on the mat with me, I'm so grateful you found what you needed here! I hope you'll check out my FREE 7-step Yoga Reset Guide for more on deepening your yoga practice and connecting to body, mind + soul - yogaresetguide.com ❤️️
Loved this Allie. Loved learning more about your journey. I was kinda surprised when I did the math after your video to discover that I have been practicing yoga for around 9 years now 😮
I will continue…
I LOVE that you surprised yourself with your consistent practice and will continue being a student for life with me, Y! See ya on the mat ❤️️
I loved this more personal video! I didnt start practicing yoga until college and it started a love of physical activity and introspection.
Thank you for being part of our yoga fam and sharing your on + off the mat journey with me, Morgan! xx
I started doing yoga many years ago at a beginners class and loved it but found it hard to get to classes all the time. Fast forward a few years and I was introduced to you tube!!! At first I did it just sporadically…but a few years ago Nov 2017 to be exact, I decided to try and do yoga every day. And besides the time I had pneumonia and didn’t do yoga for about a week…I have sone some sort of yoga every single day! I love it so much and it is so ingrained in me now that if I don’t have time to do it in the morning (which is rare because I make the time)… I feel like my day is not right until I complete my practice. My family are very supportive (as are my pets), so much so, that my kids know that on Christmas Day the fun does not begin before Mum has done her yoga. It is because of wonderful teachers like you who are there for me everyday on you tube that I am able to do this, and it has truely changed my life. I feel I can focus a lot more and let go of the little things which used to totally annoy me a lot more easily. I’m sure I am a much happier person to be around, and I feel like I am doing the right thing by my body by staying active every day.
Allie . . .I love you! My first Yoga Journey was very similar. It was 12 years ago I found Kurt Johnson and he did yoga sessions for example just on headaches or PMS, anxiety, very ailment specific. I also was partying so much. I don't even know how I was functioning. I tried it and I felt immediately cleansed. I've been practicing on and off ever since.
As it stand right now I imagine the consistency of the actual movements on the mat vs thinking about it. My body is not feeling good right now just do to more consistent patterns of inactivity as I build my business vs patterns of activity.
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From South Africa, thank you Allie for this video. I have been following you for about a year now, and yoga has brought me so much peace, change and transformation thus far. I am absolutely loving yoga and your classes. Much appreciation for your work and inspiration.
Loved this!!
Thank you so much, Brianna, we are after first trimester fatigue!!! I love, value & appreciate you being in our yoga community. xx
I started doing yoga a few years ago. I love to work out with weights, but my journey of yoga is more for the heart and soul, which your classes and courses really help me to truly understand what I want and need out of my life.
Hi Allie
I started yoga about three years ago because I had back pain that was coming back again and again. I started with Mady Morrison and very soon discovered you when I was looking for a video for the psoas. My back has become so much better and yoga has become a part of my morning routine.
You're amazing Allie. Thank you for being such a great teacher. I've been subscribed to you for 2 years now and your channel has helped me center myself numerous times. I'll make the effort to practice more. Whenever I stop practicing I find myself feeling stagnant and the moment I go through one of your videos you somehow manage to free that stagnant energy each time. Thank you again 💎
💋Allie, You look beautiful! Yoga is most definitely life changing! You have been an important teacher on my journey. I adore you and hope that more people will be lead to your channel etc. Continued Blessings and Support. ~Love&Light💖Carli P.S. My first time on the mat I knew I had come back home to my true self. I must do yoga it’s such a huge part of my life.
So it is. Yoga changed my life on and off the mat. Living and sharing the Yoga way of life. Love ur vids Allie keep on and ur a great inspiration for all of us to live life the Yoga way. Thanx
I've been doing yoga so long that it is a part of me. I don't know what my personality would be without it!!
When I was 22 and pregnant with our first daughter, I started doing Rodney Yee yoga for back care - for obvious reasons! Prior to that I was busting my ass trying to do the “skinny things“ like running 5 miles a day, fitting into a size 4, eating a lot of lettuce, and being all the things the fitness magazines said we should be. A perfectionist, people pleasing, scarcity mindset gal. After turning 38 in May, I am joyful to say that I am 💯 comfortable with a size 10 after two children, do NOT run 5 miles a day, do NOT bust my ass pleasing or looking like what others may want me to. Instead I DO practice yoga in all of its glorious forms - asana, meditation, nidra, pranayama, Ayurveda and stay tapped into nature as well as the heart by growing our own food, gardening, hiking, giving away flowers, utilizing the tools of compassion and abundance mindsets. Perfectly imperfectly of course and I’m Totally cool with it being that way thanks to this almost 2 decades long practice!! Game changer!!! No … LIFE changer!
We were at an all inclusive music festival in Mexico and one of a band members wife has a studio and had a daily yoga class. The last day we actually went to it even though we talked about doing it in the Dominican at the last holidaze. Ever since then I practice often (almost daily) and even made my own yoga studio in my basement. Thank you for your videos and your love of yoga! You inspire me ❤️
It is this is going to be national appreciation day this yoga practice has helped me transform my life help my relationship and help me communicate with better better with people and make an amends this has been a good process for me thank you bunches
Allie LOVE your authenticity your honesty this channel is helping transform my life! Sharing with all that are open. Thank you for your work
I totally remember my first yoga class. I am a nurse and I was running an adult and pediatric cancer center. I was in a tough marriage and trying to be a good mom. I remember walking to my car feeling a complete transformation. This led me to begin my practice I went on to get my 200 hour. I then moved to Colorado and then finished up my 500 hours. I only wish I would have started earlier.
What a beautiful experience, Beth! Thank you for sharing this with our yoga community, so glad your journey brought you to sharing your love of yoga with others! xx
Dear Allie nice to hear your yoga journey . I did yoga and aerobics since my teen age. After marriage not daily. But then I started yoga again 4years ago regularly. I do yoga at morning and it changed my life before that it was very difficult for me to sit down on the floor and stand up . My joints were stiffened and now I can do all yoga asanas even that yogi squats. I'm 53 years old and feel good by yoga. Then I found you and other people like Sarah beth , Dr. Mellisa west , kassandra and Adriene . I love to do yoga with all of you. I always like your boat and yoga. Stay happy and safe.
I'm so grateful you found what served you in this yoga community, Sunbila! What a beautiful yoga journey. Sending that same wish to stay happy & safe to you! xx
I love every word of this! Yoga is amazing! I wish more people would "catch on"! You are a living, breathing inspiration and I will share this video with everyone I know! Keep spreading the word and spreading the love!! xo
Brava Allie! Thank you for sharing your story. I am on year 32 of my yoga journey and am forever grateful...Wishing you further success...Pace e Bene(:
My first yoga class was a dvd I brought at Walmart. I wanted to try some other kinds of exercise not thinking that yoga would change my life in so many ways. More than I could have ever imagined. 🙏
Hi Allie, I just found your channel. I've been practicing yoga for 10 years now, I started right here on you tube, practicing with Yoga with Adrienne. I fell in love with it. While I love her classes I found myself looking for new teachers to see what else I can learn, because as I got more and more involved in the practice I've learned there is so much more!!! I really love your classes. I enjoy doing your videos as well as all the other teachers right here on you tube.
Hi Linda! I love hearing about your yoga journey, thank you for sharing with our community here!!! ❤️️
I started yoga in high school, 18 years ago. I have been doing it regularly ever since, despite several years of 60-80 hour work weeks in the past. It helped me through the stress of medical school, residency, my husband's year-long Iraq deployment, my own near-fatal childbirth, my daughter's 2 month NICU stay and subsequent year of health issues. I know I would be a worse person without it. It grounds and centers me and helps me to remain grateful and present.
This is Awesome! Yoga is bigger than exercise #BodyMindSoul❤
I am so happy you mentioned that I didn’t have to do asanas to do yoga. I have a very bad back and knees from arthritis but always wanted to practice yoga. You’ve given me hope.
I'm so grateful this resonated with you, Jeanne! I truly believe yoga is so much more than asana and hope to support your yoga journey here. If you'd like, I'm including a compilation of my pranayama & meditation videos here - ruclips.net/p/PLUTRhGw66uD6d5_r3oZyuJ7d4bcEB5Wr5 and my gentle and restorative practice to explore here - ruclips.net/p/PLUTRhGw66uD6AbJeaqZOwDMTUN20Y4Exm ❤️️
My first class happened because a neighbor gave me a pass to a local gym which so happened was across the street. I stepped into my first Ashtanga yoga class, clueless, stiff and I hated it. I hated it because I didn’t like the fact that I knew my body or so I thought, my instructor however kept telling me not yet your not ready. Oh the start of my yoga journey. I have always been active but yoga transformed not just my body but my attitude towards life. Long story short, fast forward a few years, I took a teacher training course from the instructor! Ashtanga has been a spiritual as well a physical discipleship.
What a beautiful transformation you had both on and off the mat! Thank you for sharing with me and joining me here. I hope you'll check out my FREE 7-step Yoga Reset Guide for more on deepening your yoga practice and connecting to body, mind + soul - yogaresetguide.com ❤️️
My biggest take away - keep going! My partner and I have been doing yoga nearly every day for 6+ months now and it has truely changed our lives as you have explained. We live, eat, and sleep, what our practice calls for us to do and making time for that had become a huge priority, which has caused friction with people in our lives who don't get it. Videos like this are so encouraging for our long-term practice. Thank you for the reminder and inspiration 🙏
So well said, Emily! Keep going!!! Thank you for that inspiration for our yoga community. And if you and your partner are looking for a like-hearted yoga fam to cheer you on, I hope you'll check out the Body Mind Soul Studio - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL ❤️️
@@YogawithAllieVanFossen ❤️❤️❤️ we will definitely check it out! Thank you.
My first yoga experience was with my best friend in her living room. Her dads girlfriend had gotten her this nice yoga set that came w a dvd and we tried following that but it was so unenthused. It was just going through the motions and we didnt really vibe with that. I then found your channel and we started practicing with you all the time ❤ I have fallen out of out the practice bc my life has been so crazy, but I am determined to get back on my mat after watching this ❤❤
I'm so grateful you found what served you in this yoga fam, Grace! Please be easy with yourself, there are seasons, ebbs and flows in our practice. Applauding this intention & I'll see ya on the mat! ❤️️
✨👑✨ Thank you soooo much for all that you do✨🙏💕✨
wt a wonderful journey.i've been practising yoga for 20yrs.it started at d gym n i wld join all d morning yoga classes.initially i was driven by d challenging poses n was rather competitive.over time, i became appreciative of d introspective quality of yoga n i got calmer n more centred.now i do yoga daily at home(gyms r still closed) cos yoga makes me feel good n i don't obsess over certain poses anymore.just move with d flow😀
Thank you for sharing your wonderful yoga journey with our community here, Idrus! That competitive drive rings so very true, I'm grateful you've also found that introspection in your practice. And for more on deepening your on + off the mat practice with a like-hearted yoga community, I hope you'll take a peek at the Body Mind Soul Studio - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL 😊
I began yoga training at 34 by following Roxy Shahidi's dvds and later youtube.
In between that time I was taught by Leah Bracknell who, sadly passed away a while a go.
Now I follow your vids which are amazing.
Thank you for sharing your yoga journey with our yoga community & me, Anthony! I hold Leah in my heart and thoughts with you.
so crazy!!! Yes I first discovered yoga when I was 21, 5 months pregnancy and..I really couldn´t understand none of it!! I¨ve always practiced different physical activities and couldnt see the point of some asanas, keeping there in some confusing stillness... so i took 2 classes and gave up...20 years later...yes, I started yoga again, and now the experience was absolutely different, I kind of started falling in love with it...then I did my first trip to India, continued practising yoga, then I got even more passionate about it, then second trip to india, I did TTC on Yin Yoga and came back and remodelled my house to start with my own yoga studio...and here I am!! i´m still going through a transition, in the morning i keep on working at school, but the idea is to give up and devote myself entirely to yoga and maybe chi kung since I´m studying Chinese medicine and Chi kung...Waiting to come back to india to continue going deeper!!! and of course I do love practicing with you!!! Thanks
What an amazing & inspiring journey, Gabriela! I'm so grateful you shared with our yoga community & absolutely love that you're continuing to dive deeper! I hope to see you in our studio fam when the doors reopen for a like-hearted yoga fam & daily on and off the mat yoga to deepen your practice - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL ❤️️
My first yoga class was in Tulum Mexico.. I had done yoga a few times prior with DVDs with my mom when I was in high school but my first actual class with other people was in Tulum Mexico on the beach three years ago and I fell in love and haven’t stopped since.
What a beautiful journey to your practice, thank you for sharing with our yoga community, @The Tower of Tarot! Absolutely love that your mom shared yoga with you and how cool to have your first group class on a beach. And hey, if you're searching for more community & connection with a like-hearted yoga fam, I hope you'll check out the Body Mind Soul Studio - bit.ly/BMSStudioWL❤️️
Love this :) Inspiring and well said in sharing how you did it all:) Love it)
I’ve been doing yoga for a long time ever since three years ago has transformed my life transformation my life and change my life and I’m gonna live and I go to church gods ife
My favorite yoga class or my first time doing yoga was here
My first yoga class a friend led me in in a hot upstairs empty unfinished employee apartment on a private island in Panama, just us two, trying to tend our bodies. Anticipating gentle flexibility-focused stretches, I found my friend kicking my ass with unknown strength, grace and calm, poise and intensity, and peaceful presence. I finished our hour or so panting and awakened to the hidden capacity in whatever we might overlook pursuing hurried lifestyles.
you are fantastic, I admire you a lot 💕
What a kind thing to say, Javier! Thank you for being part of this yoga family & practicing with me!
It's a great pleasure!! ❤
You have worked very hard to be where you are!
I believe in being a student for life! Thank you for tuning in & being part of this yoga community, Ryan!
I tried hot yoga too for the first time but thank God I didn't drink or eat a tuna sandwich I then realized I was out of shape
Hey my fellow hot yoga first class ever, Mikala! I can definitely relate. How has your practice transformed since??? xx
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Thank you for being part of this yoga fam & sharing your yoga journey, Prabha! ❤️️