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
October 25, 2024
Saturday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
Hello my friends,
As I celebrate my 66th birthday, I’ve committed to making this online channel. I Invite you to join me every day.
Every day Monday through Saturday at 6:30 am central time, we make a fundamental yoga warm up of the body, breath, and mind.
Every day our warm up includes breath delivery in the three planes of functional movement.
Every day we awaken joint mobility. Everyday we activate the the lymphatic plumbing system of the body. In so doing, we allow the body to clear metabolic waste and to signal the full metabolic function of all systems of the body. Digestive system, immune function, cardio vascular, respiratory, endocrine and nervous systems, fascial network, the senses and the mind— all integrate, all harmonize.
Every day we create a uniquely present response using the fundamentals. Biomechanics are essential. However, we use the practice as tools to recognize form and ultimately, to realize essence beyond form.
Every day we aim to share a random passage from an anthology of quotations from yogis, swamis, pandits, scholars, teachers, poets and writers, artists and clowns. They’re a bunch of wise guys. Not so different from you or me.
Join us every day.
Everyday. Everyday we do not miss. We cultivate the good habits of steady practice — discipline, self-examination, awakened presence, receptivity to the power of our Creator.
Join us every day. See you soon, see you tomorrow,
J
ps. it’s not uncommon these days to talk about the world as a simulation, as a matrix of illusion, as a video game made by the game-developer. nothing new here. just different words for the ancient observation of the limitations of our conditioned senses, and a different name for a power greater than us, God, Brahman, Higher Power, the Divine.
traditionally, the yoga practices have provided tools for uniting one’s whole attention with the object of attention, the highest object of attention being the Divine. whether you’re a wise guy or not, i invite you to clear the senses, wake up yr body and mind, and yoke toward the Divine. 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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APRIL 2025 CLASS SCHEDULE UPDATE
Here's Jeff's updated schedule (please note the upcoming change to Saturdays). Below the schedule, you'll find payment links for the in-person group classes.
Mondays, 9AM in FRISCO at Samurai Inti Martial Arts, 7410 Preston Rd., #105, Frisco, TX 75034
Wednesdays, 9AM in FRISCO at Samurai Inti Martial Arts, 7410 Preston Rd., #105, Frisco, TX 75034
Thursdays, 8:30AM in DALLAS at Carpathia Collaborative, 10260 N. Central Expressway, #210, Dallas, TX 75231
UPDATE APRIL 13, 2025: Saturdays, 8:30 AM in DALLAS *WILL BE AT A NEW LOCATION VERY SOON! Will likely either be at White Rock Lake or Carpathia Collaborative, not the Hillcrest location. Confirmation coming soon! This update was posted on April 13, 2025.
PAYMENT LINKS FOR GROUP CLASSES (you can also pay cash in person at the time of the session; take note of your subscriber and payment level):
Locals community subscribers at the free level, and the general public: $35
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Anatomy basics 2
This book was fundamental to body movement and awareness. Notice the three planes of functional spine.
Observing anatomy 1
If you ask a personal trainer, a pilates teacher, a yoga teacher, and a massage therapist about “core strength” it is likely you will get different answers.
We wish to observe the diaphragm as the central origin of neuromuscular action — activating channels of strength down through the lumbar vertebrae, hips, legs, feet. And likewise int he opposite direction up the spine through the thoracic spine, shoulders, neck and skull.
Here is an image for us to keep in mind and note how we humans hold together — feet to fingertips and eyes.
