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 29, 2024
Wednesday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
What if I said that every yoga posture is the same? Can you hear the tone of my voice?
Not identical in shape, but the same because every posture is a form for breath. And before the form can truly take its shape, we must stop trying to achieve it. The funny thing is when we stop trying to achieve the pose, we begin to be present and to observe wholeness. We observe the breath, the balance, the alignments, the strength, the unity and wholeness of where we are. From that starting point we set our intent. With that awakened attention, we carry the wholeness with breath into the shape of the next pose. We carry with an ease not a force. We move with an effortless effort. And we find Pain! Which indicates we have not been carrying our wholeness. Something was missing or was imbalanced or too much. Pain sends us back to the starting point. Shtira, wholeness . Sankalpa intent. Sukha, ease. Dukha is a pain in the dukha!
We breathe. We move three planes of functional spine. We deliver breath to joints and to the gates of lymphatic passage. The wise guys are always ready to comment at the end of the wake up, the beginning of the 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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Friday Livestream 4th of July
Although not a true morning wake up, the song remains the same.
Today’s practice is my first intentional movements with breath. Three planes, lymphatics, joints. That’s the way we address the experience written in our bodies like physical graffiti. Through our intentional breath and movement we recognize our state of being dazed and confused. We can move with grace through good times bad times. We awaken our bodies like houses of the holy. Not to say that our practice is a stairway to heaven, but we cannot hope to get clear and strong if we try to sneak in through the out door.
You don’t need to go down to the seaside, or over the hills and far away, or even to california. Practice wherever you are in the light.
And after practice? It’s a celebration day. Eat a Tangerine, I will listen LOUD to a British rock n roll band who made their fortune in the U.S. of A. I will boogie with Stu and my black dog. These are dancing days. Led Zep is dead, long live Led Zep....
