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
September 22, 2024
Monday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
Alright, so you’ve become familiar with the three planes of functional spinal movement. You’re opening your lymphatic gates. You’re isolating movement of specific joints. Are you breathing as you were born to breathe?
The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle with “anchor origins” on the anterior spine. It looks like half of a mushroom, or maybe like half an umbrella. The muscle attaches around the circumference of the bottom ribs. The solar plexus is the region of the diaphragm just below the central breast bone or sternum.
To check your basic breath function, lie down and place one hand on your solar plexus. The inhale lifts the hand first before the lungs expand. The exhale drops the hand down toward our spine.
Are your ribs and shoulders moving before your hand moves? Is your hand lifting with your exhale? If so, that is completely backwards! but “normal.”
Try this: fill the lungs from the bottom to the top. To exhale — the diaphragm contracts to the anterior spine and under the ribs. To inhale — the diaphragm moves away from the heart and lungs. Practice the ease of breath, nose only.
Ultimately, we make breath practice in postural flow, in extended holds of posture, and then while seated with eyes closed.
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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.
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