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
November 27, 2023
Week of 27 November 2023
Here’s what to look forward to this week —
1) On youtube you can see basics of yoga practice in 9 minutes or Less. They may go over the 9 minute mark but I aim for that 9 minute max. Shooting video alone with a timer remains a skill to acquire but it’s happening. You may have many variations of 3 planes of movement, basic breath practice, major joints, initial pprinciples and practices. Most fundamentally we practice how to yoke attention with breath in present awareness. We use the body as a vessel for breath. Technically, I’m working on eliminating microphone buzz/inaudibility. Content-wise, I want to give you poses beyond the most simple, but to advance does require actual interaction between us.
2) Our LOCALS platform will coninue Kumar Book updates into Chapter 3 as possible.
3) On Instagram, I don’t know what will happen, but will find moments to share, particularly related to our live and in-person sessions that meet on a) Thursdays, 8:30 am, at the Carpathia Collaborative functional medicine clinic, 10260 N. Central Exp’way, Suite 210, Dallas 75231 and b) Saturdays, 8:45 am, at Concorde on the Creek, 6750 Hillcrest Plaza, Suite 317, Dallas,s TX 75230.
4) There are potential openings for personal sessions so share with a friend. You could even buy an intro session for a friend or family member as a Christmas gift.
5) I have a notion to make yoga pajama pants and a yoga kurti top, special design if you had a line on a good tailor who could make these from my design
that’s all folks
J
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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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APRIL 2025 CLASS SCHEDULE UPDATE
Here's Jeff's updated schedule (please note the upcoming change to Saturdays). Below the schedule, you'll find payment links for the in-person group classes.
Mondays, 9AM in FRISCO at Samurai Inti Martial Arts, 7410 Preston Rd., #105, Frisco, TX 75034
Wednesdays, 9AM in FRISCO at Samurai Inti Martial Arts, 7410 Preston Rd., #105, Frisco, TX 75034
Thursdays, 8:30AM in DALLAS at Carpathia Collaborative, 10260 N. Central Expressway, #210, Dallas, TX 75231
UPDATE APRIL 13, 2025: Saturdays, 8:30 AM in DALLAS *WILL BE AT A NEW LOCATION VERY SOON! Will likely either be at White Rock Lake or Carpathia Collaborative, not the Hillcrest location. Confirmation coming soon! This update was posted on April 13, 2025.
PAYMENT LINKS FOR GROUP CLASSES (you can also pay cash in person at the time of the session; take note of your subscriber and payment level):
Locals community subscribers at the free level, and the general public: $35
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Anatomy basics 2
This book was fundamental to body movement and awareness. Notice the three planes of functional spine.
Observing anatomy 1
If you ask a personal trainer, a pilates teacher, a yoga teacher, and a massage therapist about “core strength” it is likely you will get different answers.
We wish to observe the diaphragm as the central origin of neuromuscular action — activating channels of strength down through the lumbar vertebrae, hips, legs, feet. And likewise int he opposite direction up the spine through the thoracic spine, shoulders, neck and skull.
Here is an image for us to keep in mind and note how we humans hold together — feet to fingertips and eyes.
