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
July 19, 2024
Friday Wake Up With Yoga
We close each session with a quotation from a wise guy — an ago scholar or swami, pandit, teacher, or ancient text. I call it my wise-guy story time. Wise-guy stories originate with Georg Feurstein’s book YOGA GEMS. Everyday I close by reading a selection by reading a random quotation from this anthology.
Rain or shine, every day, Monday through Saturday, me, my dog Luna and I host a fifteen minute WAKE UP WITH YOGA on this yoga channel.
We three will do our best to re-activate the joys of Beginners Mind and renew practices with you. Many of these moves passed down from the ancient Kumar practices, ha. The first 15 minutes of the livestream is free to you and all.
(Sounds of a radio tuning in to a rebel radio station )
NARRATOR: Congratulations and welcome to the initial dirty dozen initial subscribers who support this channel. Thank you for your belief in this truthfinder and reformed psychopathic narcissist’s theatre artist playwright and transformational storyteller yoga channel, Kumar style. HA.
Some subscribers and I go back two generations, some of you I’ve met recently. Some of you I’ve known across millennia, lol. ( SOUND: John Lennon’s ACROSS THE UNIVERSE plays. )
Kumar used to initiate conversations like that. Often the questions would involve both a conversational among those present and then some story from Kumar. Kumar was a natural performer whose physical understanding was genius, and who entertained guests of the most renowned swamis of the 1960a. Swamis Chetananda, Muktananda. The integral line, the Sivananda line, many many others. Some laughed or derided Kumar because he sold beer and wine, cigarettes, and doctored besan flour downstairs, while upstairs he hosted yoga practices.Iconoclastic Kumar. REMEMBER, Rain Or SHINE. TOMORROW and every day Monday through Saturday, 6:30 am Central Dallas, Texas time.
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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.
