20: Adriene Mishler: The Story Behind the World’s Biggest YouTube Yoga Platform, Yoga With Adriene
The Spiritual Perspective
Light Watkins
4.9 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 139 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But yeah, I was doing too much for sure and this is where I started to fall off the rails a little bit to be honest |
| 0:10.9 | like because I had an inkling that I wanted to be true to |
| 0:15.4 | myself and that I wanted to be of service I felt this calling of like a yoga teacher |
| 0:19.7 | to help others I felt this calling to use my life as an artist to help others but I was still |
| 0:25.1 | like in my 20s like navigating the world and and there's only so many hours in the |
| 0:30.1 | day and so I was like okay well things started to get a little rickety you know and I'm not saying that I |
| 0:39.2 | flew off the rails then because that happened later. Just kidding. But I was definitely, I started to struggle a little bit like how could I be a school teacher, a nanny, a professional artist, a film act? Like how could you do all that and also still not even be able to make the rent? |
| 0:56.0 | Hi friends and welcome back to another episode of At the End of the Tunnel with Me Light Watkins. |
| 1:08.0 | So in today's interview I got to chat with somebody who started what could be viewed as one of, if not the largest, |
| 1:14.8 | yoga communities in the world. But here's the thing. 99% of her yoga students have never |
| 1:20.2 | actually seen her in person. They've only seen her through their device as she was |
| 1:24.6 | instructing yoga from her living room in Austin, Texas, and usually with her co-teacher |
| 1:30.0 | Benji curled up next to her yoga mat. If you can't tell from the hints, I'm referring to Adrian |
| 1:35.8 | Misler, the Austin native who started the Uber Popular Yoga with Adrian YouTube channel |
| 1:41.1 | with a friend of hers in 2012 2012 which grew into one of the most |
| 1:45.1 | searched yoga platforms on the internet and that's actually how I first discovered |
| 1:50.0 | Adrian it was a few years ago I wanted to do yoga at home so I went on to |
| 1:54.3 | YouTube to search for yoga videos and I kept seeing yoga with Adrian. |
| 1:58.0 | Yoga with Adrian. And so one day I decided to give it a try and very quickly I became addicted not just to the yoga but to |
| 2:06.2 | Adrian's ease of instruction her style her super inviting home environment and to Benji her lovely dog. |
| 2:14.0 | As it turns out I wasn't the only one completely obsessed with Adrian's videos. |
| 2:18.0 | She's been featured on the Today's show a couple of times. |
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