Vivek George leads a 12-minute guided practice mixing emotional check-ins with a 3-minute bodyweight routine: squats, push-ups, lunges, planks, air punches, and kicks. He weaves in affirmations about self-love and reminds you to adjust intensity to your own level.
Hey guys, welcome to another day of this self-love practice. My name is Vivek George, if you don't already know me, and every day on this channel we do a different practice of self-belief and self-worth. Because without that, without that basis, we connect with the world, we connect with others, um, by dimming our light in a way that's not our truest, most strongest, most powerful self. And so today's practice is something fun and different, as always, I guess, because we're doing different ones every day. But I'm gonna walk you guys through a couple light exercises. We're gonna do a little bit of exercise just for 3 minutes. I often take a break from my work and just do some light exercises wherever I can. And today I have a couple ideas we're gonna do. Enjoy, you know, maybe throw some light clothes on if you're in something tight, if you can. And if you can't do it right now, maybe later. Definitely try to make a little time for a few of these exercises. Even just a few minutes a day helps us get the blood flowing, helps us feel good, and that's just the initial momentum we need to get ourselves more fit and feeling good about ourselves. Okay, awesome. So the first— I'm going to turn a timer on. It's going to be for 3 minutes like I mentioned. And before we do that, we're going to just do a quick check-in. How are we feeling? Hey guys, my name is Vivek George, and every single day on this channel Hey guys, welcome back to another day of this self-love journey. My name is Vivek George, and every day on this channel we do a new self-love practice because we need to truly deeply believe in ourselves so we can connect with the world more authentically and more with more confidence and belief. And I know this very well because for so long I doubted myself and it impacted various parts of my life, my career, my intimate relationships, and even with my friends and family. And I'm on a mission to change that for myself, and I'm happy to help others along the way. It's so nice to do these videos with you because when I get to share this practice with others, it feels like I'm part of something bigger. So by you joining in as well, you're helping me to also grow in my self-love. So thank you for that. And today's practice is a nice fun one. It's a little bit more active, I guess you could say, than, uh, some practices. We're going to do 3 minutes of light exercise or just light movement in general. I have a couple things that we can do together, but if you have some stuff that you would rather do for those 3 minutes, by all means, no problem. I'll keep the timer to keep track of things on this end, but if you like to follow along with me, please, by all means, and just do it at the pace that feels Good for you. 3 minutes is just kind of all you need. You don't need to have a huge workout, you know, definitely, you know, going for a long run or going to the gym for an hour or so could be excellent, but sometimes all we need, especially just as to break up the day, is a light 3-minute type of movement exercise. Great, guys. And as we usually do, let's just do a quick check-in how we're feeling, and then we'll do a check-out at the end after we finish up the practice. So right now I'm feeling good. Uh, you know, this is a little different, you know, doing it in this position and kind of in gym clothes. So always a little bit different, making sure I'm feeling good about myself. But overall I'm feeling great. I'm so excited to be able to do this practice with you. Always trying to do new things and be innovative. So I'm happy to be, uh, doing this video. And all of you, how are you feeling? Please leave a comment, let me know. I'd love to hear how your check-ins and checkouts are going. Uh, it's always encouraging for me as well. Okay, so I'm going to put the timer on. We're going to start off with, uh, doing some squats, and then I'll go from there. Okay, let's do it. Yeah, it doesn't have to go too deep if that's not available for you. But if you can, definitely squat down as much as you can. Take it at your own pace. I was going a little fast. I'm going to slow it down for myself so I can do a bit more, a few more of these. But if you are even, are like much better shape than me, then please, by all means, go for it. Awesome. Starting to feel it. Cool. Now we're going to move to push-ups. And, you know, if a traditional push-up is not available for you, you can always do them from your knees. But I'm going to try to do a regular push-up for a few of them. Talking and doing push-ups. Not as easy. How you guys doing? Feeling the burn a little bit on my end? Okay, that's good. Okay, next we're going to do some lunges. Yes, push one. All right. One foot behind you. Pretty simple. Try to go as deep as you can. Nice. Okay, cool. Next one. And I'm gonna do up some planks. So I'm gonna put a little blanket here for me because the floor is pretty hard. Just put your elbows down flat. You probably know how to do a plank. And try to keep your core tight. How's everyone holding up? Let's see how much time we have left. Oh, only 45 seconds. Cool. Nice, that went fast. Very good. We'll try to wrap up with something fun. First, we'll do some light air punches, only 30 seconds or so. Maybe move your feet as you do it, get both, both sides of your body working. Cool. And then we'll just do some light kicks. Stretch out our legs a bit by doing these kicking. Maybe in between the kicks, just move a little bit, take some small steps. And that's it, guys. 3 minutes. Boom, we did it. A little movement as an effort to make sure to care for ourselves. Care for our bodies, which is a part of caring for ourselves. That was nice. I'm a little winded. I thought I was in better shape, but maybe it's a sign I probably could push my exercise routine a little bit harder. Thank you again for joining me in this journey, in this practice. But before we wrap this up, let's do a quick checkout. Me? Yeah, I'm feeling, feeling even better. It's always good to do some movement. You know, I'm sitting a lot of the day, so it's nice to step— I can't talk right now. It's nice to get out of my chair and do a little movement, especially when it's a practice of self-love with all of you. And all of you, how are you feeling? Great, guys. Thanks for joining me. Really appreciate it. Have a wonderful day, and most importantly, don't forget to love yourself. Take care.
