Russell chats to Adriene Mishler, one of the most influential figures in yoga. She’s the founder of ‘Yoga with Adriene’, an online community with over 12 millions subscribers worldwide! Together they discuss conquering panic and anxiety disorder, , the benefits of yoga and why it's become so successful.SIGN UP TO LOCALS TO WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW AND JOIN IN A UNIQUE YOGA SESSION: https://russellbrand.locals.com/ My comedy special 'Brandemic' - premiers on June 25th June. Pre-order your tickets now at https://www.moment.co/russellbrand Come to my festival COMMUNITY - https://www.russellbrand.com/community-2023/ NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/
Hello there you Awakening Wonders, it's Thursday and as yet Jesus Christ has not returned to Earth, but we need you Jesus!
Come back, let us know in the chat and comments if our Lord Jesus has made himself clear, plain to you through some sort of apparition.
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Do them Trump documents show an intention to invade Iran?
Is Rand Paul Ratcheting it up a little bit, Gal.
He is. He certainly is.
He's... Oh, no you didn't, Rand.
You didn't just go there in Bill Gates' world, did you?
I certainly did.
Rand goes to Gates' land, because a lot of people aren't willing to start saying in
public Bill Gates and Fauci were costly contributors to the
pandemic.
It's Thursday. You tell us in the chat right now.
What do you think the role of Bill Gates was in the pandemic?
What do you think Fauci's influence was?
Benign or malign?
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We've got a community.
That's what people need, isn't it, Gail?
Community.
That's right.
If you're watching us on YouTube or Twitter or something so young and modern I ain't even heard of it yet, For all I know, you're watching this on Twitch.
For all I know, you're extraterrestrial nation watching this in the future.
You got it out when them pods people used to do.
Don't do that so much now, do we?
No.
Like pods for the future.
They were always doing that when I was a kid.
We're going to bury this in a pod for the future now.
We ain't got a future!
If you've got something, don't put it in a pod, sell it!
Sell it before the Mad Max apocalypse times are upon you!
So, uh, yeah, um, hold on a minute, I've got some really vital and important points to make, yeah.
Rand Paul!
Rand Paul!
We want Rand Paul on this show.
If you know Rand, or if you are Rand, look at yourself now.
Oh yeah, I am Rand.
If you are Rand, come on!
Come on and we want to talk to you about this stuff, because even though he's a Republican, isn't he?
Yep.
And didn't he have some shares in some sort of pharmaceutical company?
Oh, we won't get into that.
It's not as bad as other people's.
Because I think he's a good independent political voice.
And if there's going to be change within the system, it's going to come from alliances, from people from the left and the right that are willing to challenge establishment authority.
And Rand Paul is willing to do that.
I like his hair.
It's like a baby's hair.
In terms of that alliance you just said then, there were moments a few weeks ago, a couple of months ago, where Rand Paul and him and Bernie Sanders were both interrogating the boss of Moderna.
And he was like, oh look, working together.
You're charging too much for your vaccines, they were saying, weren't they?
They were saying stuff like that.
Allegedly.
Might be a reasonable price for a booster.
Everyone needs a little boost once in a while and some people are willing to pay through the snout hole for it.
So we've talked about that, Rand Paul.
I'm doing a bit of yoga later.
Stay with me for that.
What are you laughing for?
Because I burped.
It was the burp.
I'm trying my hardest.
I'm trying to get through.
I'm just a human being.
I've got a digestive system just like anybody else.
I've got all sorts of systems that I'm running simultaneously.
I'm breathing.
I'm digesting.
Cells are being created.
I'm in a tune with subtle realms.
I'm doing my very best.
Let's have a look at this.
And oh, by the way, Like once we like because I've got to tell these people my on-screen assistant my friend like you might be watching us on YouTube in a minute we're going to go and rumble because we told you during the pandemic that powerful political figures were not obeying their own rules and regulations and well now we know for an absolute fact that they weren't.
While you were watching funerals on YouTube while you were missing the birth of your baby while you were losing jobs and losing your mind they were having the jingle bell mingle This is during Tier 3.
Do you remember Tier 3?
Tier 3 said things like, do not move a muscle, you'll kill a nan right up her lung pipe.
And they were jingling and mingling during that.
Look at this.
Like, this is Tier 3.
You're prohibited from socialising with anybody you do not live with or have not formed a support bubble with, eurgh, support bubble, in any indoor setting, private gardens or at most hospitality venues.
You are not going to believe this video that we're going to bring you when you see the powerful boogieing on down while you were locked up in your home.
But there's no room for any systemic change.
Everything's fine.
Just keep voting.
Just keep handing over your tax money.
Barack Obama, he ain't handing over his income tax.
He's getting advice on how to avoid laws that he helped pass.
Before we get into all of that, and by God, you've heard there's a hell of a lot happening.
It's a crazy world we're living in.
We're going to have a little look up.
Rand Paul.
And Rand, if you're out there, and we know you are, come on our show.
And if you've got access to Rand, make sure he sees this video.
Look how nice we're being about Rand.
Right, here's Rand on Fox questioning Bill Gates and Fauci and their role as architects to the pandemic response and whether or not they benefited in ways other than, of course, Helping everyone, which is always their main motivation.
You know that now.
That's what billionaires do, isn't it?
And bureaucrats.
They help us.
Thanks.
Thanks for your help that's made you so rich.
You must have helped us to be that rich.
You must have helped me so hard.
You must have helped me so hard in my privates.
Let's have a look at Rand Paul on Fox right now.
But we all know that Communist China covered it up initially.
How are you going to get the truth now?
They won't even allow an investigation into the Wuhan lab.
Yeah, it's not easy and they haven't been forthcoming.
I think the only way to convince them is that it won't all be about blaming them because we participated in funding this.
The blame equally should go not only to Chinese authorities, but to Anthony Fauci and all those who advocated for this.
But there has to be a reassessment.
Look, Bill Gates has been over there recently.
Bill Gates is the largest funder of trying to find these viruses in remote caves and bring them to big cities.
So what happened in China is they... A beautiful way of framing it.
That's part of what gain-of-function research requires.
Finding novel viruses that as yet haven't made an interspecial jump.
Experimenting with them in order, supposedly, apparently, and most plainly and overtly, in order to create a vaccine for a disease that doesn't exist yet.
Just if some stories are to be believed.
I'm talking about Schellenberger's recent revelations on this show that the Wuhan Sorry, why did I call it the Wuhan virus?
The coronavirus began in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which I think is in... China.
Yes, that's where it is.
And I heard that the first three people Who, you, and Zoo were all working in that lab.
Don't be childish.
And so, Fauci, of course, because under Barack Obama, gain-of-function research was banned in the United States, so they transferred it to a little old place, you might have heard of it, called Wuhan.
And indeed, it seems that Bill Gates, and we can't prove this, and we've got to be careful about this, haven't we?
Especially on YouTube.
Rand Paul is saying, and we've got no reason to doubt him, I don't think, that Bill Gates is the number one...
He's funding it.
That's what he's saying.
Certainly, he significantly funds the WHO.
88% of its total philanthropic donations come from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Certainly, Bill Gates set up the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.
$750 million he put into that.
For the first part of his life, it was all paperclips and windows, wasn't it?
It was all about, he helped us in a much more mercantile and observably profitable way.
Now, Bill Gates' help has moved in a much more diffuse Stay free with Russell Brand.
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Let's face it, the mainstream media is curating information and creating propaganda.
So independent media has to become a movement.
We have to create an axis where spirituality, activism, personal and collective awakening,
all alloy into a glorious new, I'm gonna say obelisk rather than phallus,
of change and transition.
And I'm very excited to meet one participant in that, in some ways very much a child of lockdown.
It's Adrienne Mishler, better known as Yoga with Adrienne, which is an interesting name.
But nevertheless, we aspire after Adrienne in so much as she has created an online community sharing hundreds of free videos with over 12 million.
Is it 12 million YouTube subscribers worldwide?
Thank you very much.
And if you've got a question for Adrienne, let me know in the chat.
Adrienne, thank you so much for joining us.
Hi there, thank you for having me.
It's good to see you again.
Likewise.
The first point I want to make is that you are, in a sense, a creation of lockdown.
I don't mean that you are a grim Frankenstein figure, a result of a terrible laboratory accident.
Allegedly!
More that you came to prominence and popularity during the lockdown period because many people necessarily, understandably and wisely sought solace in yoga during that time.
When you began your channel, how did you imagine it might go?
What were your intentions and how do you deal with it now, now that it's become a very significant cultural movement?
The funny thing is, we started the channel in 2012.
I think a lot of people may not know that or realize that the channel is over 10 years old.
He's like, "Oh, this is where I belong for this conversation."
The funny thing is we started the channel in 2012.
I think a lot of people may not know that or realize that the channel is over 10 years old.
And I met my partner in the channel, Chris Sharp, on the movie set of a film that he had co-written
and was directing.
And I was acting in, playing the role of Polly in a, Punk rock band of three women, naturally.
And so we really enjoyed working together.
And I was already devoted to being a yoga teacher and practicing yoga.
I was a theater artist from a very young age.
So it kind of started from the kind of passion project space that one has as a creative person.
And I think that's the real blessing of the whole bit is if we had set out to start a business or a channel that reached millions, you know, it would have been tough because it's really hard to be yourself, believe it or not.
So the fact that we were like low stakes, starting this as a passion project, hoping to make a little bit of extra money, maybe to make some movies, You know, that was the original intention.
In 2015, we did the first 30-day yoga journey in January, and I think that's when things started to really pick up and we realized, wow, we can really help people here and make this more accessible.
My assumption is that if you practice a lot of yoga, a lot of mindfulness, a lot of meditation, it cannot but change you.
I don't see yoga as a sort of ancillary to the New Age movement that can sometimes seem, well, by its very nature, somewhat traditionless.
Uh, rootless.
I see it as a way to cultivate a different type of awareness.
Conquering the constant caroming inner activity.
The endless and nagging thoughts that sometimes won't leave me alone.
And I was very curious to learn that since we last spoke, and I hope this is An unrelated subject, you've been recovering from panic and anxiety disorder.
How can you have suffered from that when you are a yogi?
Doesn't it sort of somehow protect you from that?
Because I know a lot of people watching this right now We'll be suffering from anxiety.
Let me know in the chat.
I'm looking at you guys, SensitiveHearts25.
I'm looking at you all.
Let me know if you've suffered from anxiety disorders and panic and if yoga is one of the things that you guys are going to.
So were you surprised and concerned and has it shaken your faith in the ability of yoga and comparable techniques to help you deal with those kind of things?
Yes, I'm so glad you brought this up because for many, many moons, I was quiet about my experience with anxiety and panic because of the very thing you mentioned, because to me, it was so astonishing that me, yoga with Adrian, like this ridiculousness of how could I get so hard hit with nervous system breakdown?
And all I can say is that I'm finally in a place where my nervous system can actually say, This is a serious subject for us to tend to our nervous system and to consider all the parts that that contribute to nervous system balance.
That's hormones.
That's like, you know, talking about the news, like the type of information we intake.
But I think with the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, Coupled with, admittedly, a personal share, doing a hormone therapy to freeze my eggs, you know, at my age.
The combination of those things just tipped the boat for me.
And we all have these moments where the boat tips, and that's when we need to remember that yoga practice is all about showing up with what is.
I think we all wanted to show up and be helpers so much so in 2020, 2021, that I just kind of lost track of my own practice.
And my body reminded me, um, we have to come back.
We want to be of service.
What are people saying about their anxiety?
Young Toast says, Adrian, you truly got me to love yoga.
I was never into it because I found it boring, but now I basically need it at least a couple of times a week on my rest day.
It makes me get back into my body, which I have a hard time ever doing, especially as an autistic and ADHD adult.
I liked it that you said that you took your panic attacks and anxiety as a kind of route back to embodiment.
Can you explain that a bit more, please?
Well, you mentioned the word faith.
Like, did it, did it kind of allow me to lose faith or garner more faith in yoga?
And it, it scared, honestly, it scared the shit out of me because again, I was like, how could this happen?
How could I let this get so far away?
And part of it is like, you know, I did do some hormone therapy, but the world is a crazy place.
We're inundated with so much.
Using this ancient practice to get back to the interior and remember that the roots of yoga, right, are deeply, deeply rooted in spirituality.
So that doesn't mean religion.
That doesn't mean one thing over another, but it is a connection back to yourself, right?
And the opportunity, this vocabulary to connect to something bigger than yourself, maybe the divine.
And so I feel like, If anything, it was, I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is how I feel.
I believe this.
It was a reminder from the divine of like what this practice is and what I can do to help communicate and share the depth of that, like what I can do to communicate that to more people moving forward, especially after the pandemic where so many of us came to it for mental health and physical well-being.
Fascinating that you talk about access to the divine.
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I mean, why are you embarrassed about talking about divinity, Adrienne?
Because isn't that the whole point of yoga, really, to get past the limitations of the individual mind and access the Latent, even unconscious forces that make up the whole of our psyche and give us, you know, when you come to a point where you're suffering from panic and anxiety, you need a different resource.
You need to access something else.
You need to visit the edge lands.
You need to get beyond the ordinary parameters of your consciousness.
Why do you feel embarrassed about talking about divinity like that?
That's a good question.
I suppose I'm not embarrassed to talk about divinity.
In fact, I feel what I'm really relaying, like, and I can hear myself now, and this is great for me as well, is that I'm being reminded of the divinity that's in this practice in a major way.
I think what the, maybe not so much the embarrassment, but Just the awareness and attempt at humility of, you know, not wanting to just blatantly be like, and this experience reminded me, I'm, you know, I am the chosen one to communicate divinity through yoga to the people in this day and age.
I didn't want to make that sort of statement, but I love that you asked me that because I think now is the time to stop being afraid of talking about the spirituality in the way I feel compelled to.
For so many years, I wanted to make this practice, and I still continue to want to make this practice accessible, but I wanted it to be so inclusive, so easy to drop in for so many different types of people over the world, that I was very careful about the way I included the spirituality.
And I think since 2020, 2021, I kind of, yeah, I'm like, no, this practice is deeply rooted in spirituality.
It makes sense to come back to that and remind people of that.
People need spirituality now because the material world and its institutions are beginning to fail people.
I don't mean that nature is failing people, but it's become plain in the last few years that we're in some seismic shift.
It's the end of a particular era, the birth of something new.
I'm glad to hear you admit that you don't see yourself as the Lady Christ of online yoga, but there are a lot of comments here that seem to countenance a claim that you aren't willing to make, or rather support that claim.
Listen to some of this.
Firstly, Claus says, Adrian, have you got any advice for aspiring yoga teachers?
We'll answer that over on Locals.
Press the red button, you can join us there if you want to hear the answer to that question.
But look at this.
Look at all this praise bordering on hysteria, Adrienne.
SueBiz22.
I've been with Adrienne on YouTube long before lockdown.
I fell in love with her immediately because of her purity and her incredible authenticity.
Marci Sova, SovaMama1 says, she saved my life.
Thank you, Russell, for acknowledging this amazing young woman.
Tajimo, looking forward to this.
I found out by Adrian from your last interview you've been doing yoga with us since.
I love Adrian's yoga channel.
That's it.
And then Zache says, nice, let's do some yoga together.
I've suffered from a major depressive disorder, says CCS Ranch, and Adrian has helped me with that.
Thanks all of you for those positive comments.
Adrian, Has that, in stark contradiction to the principles of yoga and spirituality everywhere, made you feel a deep sense of vanity, narcissism and personal power?
No, no, no, not at all.
In fact, it again just It is a true gift to get feedback at all, right?
And I think that it's, yeah, it feels good.
It's positive feedback.
And it mostly, you know, this sounds so like cliche and like lip service, but it restores my faith.
In so many ways to just hear people have that connection because you have to remember a lot of what a lot if not almost all of what I do I give away for free so people can pause it they can stop it they don't have to do it they don't have to take my crappy humor I mean Benji's cute so I'd log in for that any day but you know there's so many opportunities to do to do Something for yourself in this setting and the fact that anyone would choose to do it with me and that would they would finish and then they would come back when there's no money.
There's no I'm not there like challenging people.
You know.
To me, that's pretty heroic, and I think I mentioned this last time we we chatted like to me to be able to show up and do something with a beginning, middle and end for yourself without an audience, without anyone watching you, without giving any money in exchange.
Pretty amazing.
So if anything, I'm just like, happy to hear it.
Carry on our conversation, Adrienne, with your permission, on local.
So if you're watching us on Rumble, press the red button and join us now.
I see your Benji, who is compliantly on that mat, almost like a chimpanzee from Mary Chipperfield Circus.
Doubtless whooped into shape by a life of constant cruelty.
And now my dog Bear is going to join us.
We let Bear in the studio.
We're going to do yoga, not only with Adrienne, but with our recalcitrant hounds.
Here comes Bear.
Let's look at Bear.
Come in here, mate.
There he is.
Look at that.
There's Bear will be joining us for yoga.
So it'll be me, Adrienne, Benji and Bear.
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You also get exclusive access to interviews with RFK Jr., Richard Dawkins, a whole host of things, meditations, podcasts, so much stuff, as well as my live festival community, which you should be coming to, Adrienne, in all honesty, between the 14th and 17th of July.
Hay on white.
What are you doing?
Where are you right now?
I'm in Washington State.
So out of the Texas heat, you know, I'm from Austin and I am in Washington State and it's a beautiful, drizzly morning here.
Come England, we'll pay you to be at Community.
We've got a fantastic show tomorrow.
We've got Simon Jordan, who's a social pontificator, football expert and some say the most important and radical voice in the world's game since Brian Clough.
Join us for a fantastic conversation around sport and the culture and business of sport.
That's going to be fantastic.
But now, if you're on Locals, you can join me and Adrian.
We're going to do some yoga with our dogs.
What's that going to be like?
It's going to be weird, isn't it?
Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same.
Oh, no, but for more of the different.
Until then, stay free.
Press the red button.
Join us on Locals.
We're going to do yoga right now.
Thanks, Adrian.
We're going to do this now.
Can we roll straight in?
Thanks you lot that are watching us on Locals.
Keep sending your questions.
We had that question to answer.
Hey, thanks for joining us on Locals.
I'm still with Adrienne.
Thanks for staying with us, Adrienne.
I had that question from Claude.
He asked for advice for aspiring yoga teachers.
What is it?
Well, I think it is to take your time.
That's no good.
You can't use that.
That's no good to Claude.
Take your time. Is it Claude? What? Take your time? That's the advice for Claude?
Everyone's, everyone's in a rush and we want to master the guiding of the yoga as well.
If we're rushed, people feel that and feel rushed.
So take your time, find your voice, Don't need to overdo it.
Keep it simple and be really mindful of your language.
How you're asking people to move matters.
Right, Claude.
I'm going to offer a counterpoint.
Claude, pull your finger out.
Hurry up.
Get a shift on.
Right?
Stop messing about and get on and become a yoga teacher.
I'm sick and tired of you pontificating, prevaricating and making excuses, Claude.
Call yourself a yoga teacher!
Get off your ass and teach some yoga!
You make me sick!
It's like we can be Claude's yoga parents.
You're offering a very benign, nourishing, nutritional, somewhat graceful, and dare I offer, beautiful perspective.
Whereas I'm telling Claude to get off his ass and teach some yoga.
And we're actually going to do yoga.
You don't think that, yeah, good yogi, bad yogi, like good cop, bad cop, you know, to mess with his head a bit.
We actually are his yoga parents.
We're not.
Could be.
We are his yoga parents, so... In a sense, we are right now in the very act of conceiving of young Claude's yoga career.
Please don't take that the wrong way, Adrienne.
I'd hate for that to be misconstrued as British smut at a time like this.
Should we get over onto that yoga mat?
With those sweet dogs of ours and do some yoga like it's 1999!
Yeah baby!
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for establishing your successful YouTube channel.
Thank you for making yoga accessible and light and inclusive.
It's really, really beautiful experience to participate in with you.
I really hope I get to communicate with you more.
It'd be lovely to see you again.
It'd be lovely to have you appear at one of our live events.
I'd love it.
I'd love it.
It's really brilliant.
Obviously, there's a link to Yoga With Adriene, not that it's a necessity when it's so extraordinarily successful.
You can download Adriene's app, find out what feels good, and go to her website, yogawithadriene.com.
Adriene, thanks once again.
That was amazing.
Always a pleasure.
Love your energy.
And yeah, let's keep in touch.
Thanks everyone for watching.
We've got a fantastic show tomorrow.
We'll be covering some extraordinary stories around Hunter Biden, the ongoing revelations around Hunter, the ongoing Trump story.
We've got so much to tell you, but also we're going to give you a spiritual perspective in order that you may awaken and be free.
Thanks once again to Adrian.
Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
