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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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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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....
