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 28, 2024 7:32 AM ET
Jeffry Farrell / yoga with jeff@jeffryfarrell
September 28, 2024
saturday livestream wake up with yoga
We take the breath for granted because we have known the breath since before we can remember. We go to sleep and we breathe. Everybody breathes. It is normal and universal — to breathe. As long as we have breath, we have life. The breath is the fundamental function more basic than the need for food or water or sleep.
The breath is a unique function because it operates with both aspects of the nervous system — that which is voluntary and that which is autonomic. And thus, the breath is a bridge between the conscious will and every activity of mind. Pranayama is the name of the yoga breathing practices. They range from the most simple to the most esoteric. We use the breath to establish stability, to enter posture, to discover the oppositional fullness of every posture, and to exit posture. The unbroken breath and attention in the body cultivates the flow called vinyasa, a flow of life force, vital essence we call prana.
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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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