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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Jeffry Farrell / yoga with jeff@jeffryfarrell
June 04, 2023
The father of Polyvagal Theory, Stephen Porges
There are better interviews than the Bulletproof podcast of Dave Asprey, but this came up in my feed today. The vagus nerve functions throughout the entire body from the brain through the neck, heart, gut, and beyond. Its multipurposed function integrates experience, autonomic survival mechanisms, and pathways of safety. To understand Porges’ proposal is to clarify physiological responses in the body and their related conditions of emotion and states of mind. Professor Porges’ work provides fresh insight into nervous system disruption including trauma, and inspires therapeutic protocols whose efficacy support the theory. Porges is one of the researchers who have been providing clinical research that provide “scientific validation” for many of the ancient yoga’s claims. You can find further information of Porges, Polyvagal Theory, Trauma Therapy abundantly online, but this is as good as any starting point. It is worth listening all the way through despite our host Asprey’s efforts. In fact, Porges simplifies without condescension or pedantry. He reveals powerful insight as to how the body works, and how we respond to the signals arising within us. Check it out.
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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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