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
March 30, 2024
A recipe for “Andrew Huberman Chai,” a carnivore based chai, part one of two parts. . .
My wife Donna has convinced me to transform my eating habits from a primarily vegetarian fare to a 90 day carnivore experiment. Please put aside for now all the hubbub of carnivore/veg commentary. We can talk about that in a separate entry.
For now a personal health purpos is to renew mitochondrial health, specifically in nervous system targeting olfactory nerves renewal. I have been trying a variety of healing and renewal practices over the past four years, a prior story. See that reference above? A separate Entry.
Among the foods I am encouraged to consume daily (sources later) is the ELEMENTS mineral salt powders dissolved in liquids. The watermelon, citrus, raspberry packets dissolve into fresh drinking water. I make two quarts at a time in mason jars, one packet of salts.
Another round of flavors has recently caught my attention — the chocolate flavored packets: 1. Chocolate Chai, 2. Chocolate Raspberry, 3. Chocolate Mint. I added a packet to cool water. Not too good. Donna told me about the carnivore recipe of adding a chocolate packet to hot cream or milk. The weather was cool in February so this recipe became a treat thanks to that community. However, as I paid attention to the flavors I wondered about the Chocolate Chai.
After listening to Andrew Huberman’s podcasts I was first informed of ELEMENTS mineral salts. I understand his protocols for heightening positive dopamine cycles by limiting his coffee intake to a rule of thumb that includes “coffee after first morning daylight into the eyes.” As an authentic chai devotee who loves to make his own chai spices and brew based on Kumar Pallana’s masterful recipe, I was curious. Is there a possible variation that certainly includes dairy but no black tea or sugar?
BEcausee of Andrew Huberman, I added coffee.
BEcause of Kumar, I added ghee (purified butter, for non-Sanskrit followers here)
My solution is the following recipe made in pictures: Check it out! It is surprisingly delicious, healthful, hearty, and satisfying. Don’t think of original chai. Just appreciate this chai for what it is — an Andrew Huberman Chai. Or maybe just AH Chai. Ok, to resist the inclination of silly banter, I give you a current favorite recipe in pictures-
END of PART ONE.
Pls look at PART TWO, Huberman Chai
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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.
