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 29, 2024
Breath Practice 1
Breath. We take it for granted. We go to sleep, and we’re breathing. We wake up, and we are breathing. No big deal, right? We are all masters of our breath, right?
You must know, there is more to breath than the unconscious habit.
Breath practices are for every person. Yet, if you’ve never made breath practices before, a strong suggestion is to find a personal teacher, not a video. We humans have many conditions, dysfunctional patterns, problems because of our breathing. A qualified teacher can help identify and guide you through the limitations. As these practices continue and evolve, we will cover many of those conditions.
However, this video practice is for those who are free of basic breath limitations. There are practices to eliminate asthma and other conditions, but that is not for us to begin. For those with conditions, seek an experienced teacher.
As for myself, Kumar started teaching me the breathing practices more than 33 years ago.
Today’s practices: a simple practice of an equal count for exhale and inhale. Samatva variations. To begin we will repeat daily. The pranayama is not a hit or miss practice. It requires every day. How many days? Every day. 😆
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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....
