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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December 12, 2024
Friday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
So the contents of our warmup remain the same. We awaken and open the heart. We wake up breath from the bottom of the lungs to the top and then the breath pours out. We move the body in three planes of the spine’s functional range. We observe movement of the joints. We deliver breath, attention, and light impact to the marma points of the lymphatic system. That is the basic daily discipline of the first 15 minutes.
We can add on to the basics in a variety of sequences for a varieties of purposes. However, the highest purpose is not the pose. No, that would be ridiculous. If your purpose is the pose then you’d be better off aiming for stunts with higher social pay off— say elevated rope walking, or juggling, or dance or maybe an acrobatic routine or even parkour stunts.
The purpose is for us to use the pose as a vessel of breath that brings us to greater presence. That means purpose and meaning. We become truly alive in the body, our attention awakened across memory and anticipation, residing in an expansive presence. The pose is the form. What is the stillness and ease of the form? There is a fullness. To find the fullness of form allows us to carry that ease all day. The body awakens and the mind is attentive with its senses working. We receive information but do not attach to it. Without attachment we empty the cups of our static awareness and receive fresh sensation. The postures are for life and experience and actions of the heart.
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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....
