“But today, I’ll just share, with my heart on my sleeve, that I actually pushed our interview because I had scheduled a counseling session on Zoom. Mishler, who is 38, has expressive brown eyes and a deliberate voice, the kind that invites you in, even over a screen. “I have a terrible habit of wearing my heart on my sleeve, which of course is a lovely thing, but there are some moments where it can be beautiful to keep things that are vulnerable quiet,” she says. (As soon as she got there, she got a call that her mother had had a stroke back in Austin, and she returned to Texas the next day.)Īlmost immediately, Mishler tells me that she’s just come from therapy. And so, when Mishler joins a Zoom call with me one afternoon in May, I search her face for signs of the burnout she says she suffered last summer, when she decided she needed a break and packed Benji into her car and drove 2,000 miles from her home in Austin, Texas, to the Pacific Northwest for a month of downtime. It seemed like a lot for one person to take on. 1 She was hailed as the savior of a stressed-out populace, who flocked to her calm demeanor and straightforward videos with titles like “Yoga for Anxiety and Stress” and “Yoga for Self-Respect.” Her juggernaut has shown no signs of stopping since the beginning of the pandemic, she’s doubled the follower count on her YouTube channel-where all the content is free-to 11 million, and has more than 50,000 subscribers to her paid app, Find What Feels Good, where she does a monthly vlog for members and she and other practitioners post video tutorials. That woman was Adriene Mishler, better known as the yoga instructor behind the YouTube channel Yoga with Adriene.īefore the pandemic, Mishler had accumulated a devoted following of a few million, but as soon as lockdown hit, her follower count exploded and she was anointed as a kind of yogic Queen of Quarantine, with her faithful dog, Benji, as court jester. During the first few months of the pandemic-those early, scary, pre-vaccine, schools-are-closed days, when we were all still figuring out how to navigate working from home and (possibly) taking care of kids and not going completely insane-there was one woman, it seemed, who had the capacity to lead us all through the wilderness.
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