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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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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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....
