yoga with jeff
Based in household yoga practices of more than 40 years, Jeff’s yoga work will include group sessions, and additional content not focused exclusively on posture. That additional content will include 9 Minutes or LESS, and will include THE PRANA PROJECT. Jeff will share therapeutic, maintenance, and training that alternate between the Playful (Lila) and the Heroic (Vira). Look for an occasional Book Review, Interview, Creative Adventure, or Personal Note in realms practical and imaginative.
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Live Streamed on May 31, 2023 8:30 PM ET
Jeffry Farrell / yoga with jeff@jeffryfarrell
May 31, 2023
Breathing basics since May 15, 2023
Since the start of this series for breathing freedom, we have observed Kumar’s directive of “no force.” Any force in the breathing will reflect in the nervous system. Yes, it is true, the breath is the bridge between the mind and the body.
Our focus originates with breath as we align, balance, find strength, awaken the fullness of breath into the body and not separate from the selected attention of the present moment — how we awaken into three planes, how we awaken joints, how we awaken into the senses and thus the nervous system. To enter the nervous system is to enter memory and anticipation. It is to enter activities of brain — executive function, memory, orientation in time and space and materials. As Bessel Van der Kolk’s observed, the body truly keeps their score. To breathe consciously with selected attention is to acquire skills — entering various frequencies of mind, yoking attention in focused concentration and surrender, of bringing awareness to both voluntary and involuntary activities. The breathing practice are powerful and vast.
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Picking up hand balances again after years away.
What is needed for hand balances? How do they build? How do we enter and exit? Where is shtira?
Beginning again means asking familiar questions and looking for the answers in the posture, observing what doesn’t work, and what does. Learning twice, and twice again in Beginners Mind.
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Morning practice, Wake Up With Yoga
I recorded this last night because I must be on the road during our usual time. Here we observe three planes of functional spinal movement with breath. I invite you to recall warm-ups of this past week and to practice from whatever you can recall. If you cannot recall, then reboot yr favorite livestream recording and use that.
This week marks the start of a new endeavor at the SAMURAI INTI Martial Arts Studio in Frisco. I’ll be teaching i a group class there at Sendai Sebastian Mejias ‘ dojo on Monday and Wednesday mornings.
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Friday Livestream 4th of July
Although not a true morning wake up, the song remains the same.
Today’s practice is my first intentional movements with breath. Three planes, lymphatics, joints. That’s the way we address the experience written in our bodies like physical graffiti. Through our intentional breath and movement we recognize our state of being dazed and confused. We can move with grace through good times bad times. We awaken our bodies like houses of the holy. Not to say that our practice is a stairway to heaven, but we cannot hope to get clear and strong if we try to sneak in through the out door.
You don’t need to go down to the seaside, or over the hills and far away, or even to california. Practice wherever you are in the light.
And after practice? It’s a celebration day. Eat a Tangerine, I will listen LOUD to a British rock n roll band who made their fortune in the U.S. of A. I will boogie with Stu and my black dog. These are dancing days. Led Zep is dead, long live Led Zep....
