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
November 18, 2024
Tuesday Livestream Wake up With Yoga
Good morning! I like to watch and listen to podcasts. One fellow I like is a professor of neurology at Stanford Medical School by the name of Andrew Huberman. In one clip he was talking about concentration and heightened mental function He suggested a specific 17 minute protocol that began by being seated and upright, eyes open. He said that the measured results included reduced cortisol levels and if performed over time, predicted reduced risk of dementias. The protocol he described could be a yoga instructor’s intro to Pratyahara, the 5th of Patanjali’s 8 Limbs.
The Pratyahara observes the sensory functions — how the senses receive information and how they can be turned inwards with breath to illuminate interior landscapes of the physical and the subtle anatomy.
Huberman suggested to place your eyes and attention on one point. Observe how the eyes can focus. then observe how you can receive the impressions of light from the range of your visual field. Relax the focus on the point. Receive light from the range of the visual field. Breathe.
So breathe and continue as you turn the senses inward. This can be performed in posture.
Huberman suggested turning the senses outward and then turn them inwards. Huberman claims this practice clears the mind of distraction and supports concentration. Repeat with gentle but complete breathing.
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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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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....
