Shadowing practice: Morning Yoga Flow | 20-Minute Morning Yoga Practice

This clip opens Yoga With Adriene's twenty minute morning flow, a narration where a single instructor talks you through poses in continuous, unscripted English while addressing a dog named Sweet Benji beside her. The content sits at B1, spoken at 189 words per minute, so sentences move quickly but are built from short, repeated instructions rather than dense vocabulary.

Because it is one voice talking through physical actions in real time, it doubles as english listening practice and american accent training: you hear the same handful of verbs, reach, walk, breathe, relax, land differently every few seconds, which is exactly the repetition speaking practice needs to stick. With 385 lines in total, there is plenty of material once you move past this opening stretch.

Adriene builds this section almost entirely from imperative verbs strung together without a subject, the shorthand a live instructor uses when she is also moving. Three lines show how that shorthand behaves out loud.

• "Let's begin an extended child's pose." opens the sequence with the softened command "let's", inviting rather than ordering, a good line to shadow this line for its gentle imperative tone before harder ones arrive.
• "Reach your fingertips out front, knees nice and wide." fits two separate instructions into one breath, and "knees nice and wide" drops the verb entirely, a normal shortcut in spoken English.
• "The hardest part is showing up and you've already done that." breaks the imperative pattern for a full sentence of encouragement, so the stress moves onto "showing up" and "already", worth slowing down to hear.

Work through the opening in order, since each block sets up the vocabulary for the next.

• Play lines 1 to 19 once without pausing, so the introduction and "Let's begin an extended child's pose." run at the recording's own 189 words per minute.
• Isolate "Reach your fingertips out front, knees nice and wide." and repeat it five times, matching the falling pitch on "wide".
• Say "The hardest part is showing up and you've already done that." on its own a few times, since it is one long sentence with no pause built in.
• Move to lines 20 to 30, the side stretch, and shadow the repeating pair "Breathe in." and "And breathe out." to lock the rhythm before returning to full sentences.
• Finish on line 35, "And exhale to round through the spine, chin to chest, really claw through the fingertips.", the longest instruction in this stretch and a fair test of whether you can improve english speaking pace without losing the words.