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Jeffry Farrell / yoga with jeff@jeffryfarrell
September 02, 2024
Tuesday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
Some things about the yoga are so obvious that any garden variety vegetable might be able to comment. With that note like a cardinal’s call, I offer you some garden variety comments on our yoga practices.
Compared to the Mind, the Body remains steady and consistent. The Mind might have a thousand thoughts pass through as fast as a flag flapping in the wind, but when our eyes look down at the foot, it looks roughly the same if not exactly the same as it was an hour ago. The same toes, the same heel and arch, the same pads, pores, nails, and fur. The body basically stays the same.
The body holds a range of memory and pattern.
For example, not only does the body hold implicit memory of our total ancient evolutionary process as human beings, the body holds the patterns of our personal and daily experiences The body is our slate upon which experiences are etched. Our yoga postures and breath read the etchings of experience written in the body.
Each one of us may share basic anatomical features but your experience is unique to you. The yoga practice of posture and breath (asana and pranayama) direct the anatomical features, our bio-mechanics and basic functions, but how you experience the practice will be unique to you.
The purpose is not to imitate a perfect pose which does not exist. The purpose is to use the pose and the breathing to discover, to identify what locks and unlocks, what opens and closes, what binds and unbinds. If we do then we enter into the very rhythms of the mind and more subtle functions of life.
So, let’s breathe, make three planes of functional movement of the spine, open the gates of the lymphatic plumbing.
I’m posting this tonight. Early in the morning I’ll drive my sire to a cataract surgery. This video should go live even as I sit in the waiting room outside my dad’s eyeball cut and vision repair. The magic of technology.
Thanks for letting this common garden vegetable share some yoga observations with you. If for some reason this video does not read, then pls check out the recorded session for last Tuesday.
Let me hear from you.
J
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Surya Namaskar / Salute to the Sun variation
This is a video of the left side initiating movement in a Salute to the Sun sequence.
Breath is first. It activates stability and sensation, strength, balance, and an active but receptive mind. Then, move.
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I. A.) 9.) Laced fingers behind your back
Congratulations! You are about to complete the first chapter and the first series of one minute videos.
There are several positions with inter-laced fingers. Do this one first and breathe nine deep breaths. If you cannot do this, nevermind. And accept the completion of the first chapter! You are prepared to go on to Chapter II which is the first sequence for Breath.
We will come back to Laced Fingers again in a subsequent chapter.
I will add specific series for laced fingers witih arm movement in future uploads. Every position has many variations. Every position begins with breath, stability, and wholeness. In every position we set our intention and move, guided by breath. The work is an effortless effort that confronts pain and learns.
This video completes the initial series of nine short videos to awaken the upper body.
IF YOU STARTED HERE GO BACK LIKE SHOOTS AND LADDERS TO THE FIRST VIDEO —
I. Standing A.) Arms, Shoulders, Neck 1.) Open/close the fist....
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I. A.) 8.) Head hinges and circles
From a standing upright position, maintain stable and unmoving shoulders as best you can.
Isolate the head’s movement with a nod forward and back. Hinge the head forward and back. Inhale back, exhale forward. Make at least three reps of nodding “yes.”
Return to center. Turn the whole head right and then left. Turn the chin and forehead equally. Turn your eyes deeply back, too. First breath is to exhale over your shoulder. Make at least three reps of “no.”
Return to center. Tilt the head to one side. Pretend you could lift the ear up into the sky. Stay there and breathe. Feel the dilation in that side fo the neck. Feel the compression on the opposite side. Take three breaths on each side. Make three reps of “maybe.”
Return to center and make a circle with the top of your head. Turn the head three times to the right, then reverse three times. Every circle is a breath.
HOW TO USE THIS VIDEO SERIES:
Please watch the video then make the movement. Make at ...
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