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 19, 2024
Wednesday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
hello my yoga friends! it’s only because of you that i can do this. there is no other point. you give me the reason to step outside into the darkness and re-make our standard morning practices renewed each day as the sun rises.
if we begin in breath, then we have the foundation to do what we need to do. we bind our attention to the breath. we wake up the body. memory arises and in conscious breathing we release memory’s determination. likewise, anticipations, expectations, plans, and demands bind us in images constructed by the mind. conscious breathing loosens the bind of the mind. every breath brings us to presence, to sufficient wholeness. every breath reminds us of our present and authentic experience.
every posture is the vessel of the breath. into the vessel we deliver breath. we observe the breath’s mechanics and function. we observe the breath’s gift of prana, of life force. we observe the breath in the invisible channels of the body and thus fully activate the vessel and its purposes.
let’s make three planes of movement. let’s open and close our joints with breath.
every inhale we open, every exhale we close. every inhale awakens, every exhale liberates.
let’s apply this breath to our lymphatic system. we signal metabolic function. ok, let’s go!
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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....
