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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Live Streamed on January 8, 2025 7:33 AM ET
Jeffry Farrell / yoga with jeff@jeffryfarrell
January 07, 2025
Wednesday morning prior to a “Dallas Winter Weather Event” Morning Wake-up With Yoga
Thanks go to our teachers again every day. Of course, Kumar. Sometimes I would say Kumar that looks like a Tai Chi move, and he’d respond “Whatever you want to call it is not the point. The breathing, man. The breath is the life and the life is the breath. The breath will teach you.”
Meet Master Chunyi Lin of Spring Forest Qigong in Minnesota, another amazing teacher who focuses on Pranic Healing methods via the Chinese lineages. His work aligns with Kumar’s “ stylistic appropriations and creative somatic inspirations.” Master Lin has emphasized the cupped patting and the finger tapping with breath upon key points in the body. These key points often correspond with what yoga calls “the marmas.” You can feel almost immediate results with many of Master Lin’ s guided breath patterns.
Further, as we recognize teachers this month, Dr. Perry Nickelston’s work shares information about the systems of the body and how they work together. The primary medical model of our contemporary USA focuses on analytics to the detriment of health. Dr. Perry’s broad-ranging insight is born of his health recoveries.
Both men listed above count as a teacher for our community here, and for me. Check them out and get back to me as to what you think.
TODAY’S PRACTICE: 1. Activate Breath 2. Activate lymphatic system 3. Activate three planes of functional movement 4. Joint activations 5. Activation of Neuromuscular Pathways 6. Wise Guys
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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.
