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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Live Streamed on September 13, 2024 7:32 AM ET
Jeffry Farrell / yoga with jeff@jeffryfarrell
September 13, 2024
Friday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
First, observe the cycle of your breath, the inhale and the exhale. To be present in your breath is to place your attention on the breath cycle. This activates awareness of the functional breath mechanics and also the functional imagination as a tool to illuminate.
Second, recognize life force energy — prana — drawn into you with the inhale. It is easy to imagine
sunlight entering the lungs, blood, and body
Third, direct the life force into the physical vessel of the body. Shift the body and you shift the vessel. You shift the form. You activate the channels of life.
Innumerable variations are possible. All variations observe rhythm, timing, nose and/or mouth, expansion and contraction.
Begin breathing practices by observing your “normal” breath Make no force in your breathing efforts.
Support the channel for more.
As ever, we awaken three planes of functional spine plus joints and the lymphatic system.
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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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