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
January 29, 2025
Thursday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
Warm up your day knowing you are exactly where you should be. You cannot chase any faster and you must not allow yourself to “get beside yourself” with emotion. You are whole and sufficient. You can find stability, alignment, balance, strength and breath in any position. This wholeness we call SHTIRA. You are exactly where you should be. You can’t be more than what you are. To be where you are allows you to fully be yourself. And we humans can change. But we must begin from a stillness and its wholeness. Shtira.
From this wholeness we sent our intention. We call this SANKALPA. In sankalpa we de-cide. We cut away everything else. We fix attention on one thing. Slow down. On what can you count on as a worthy subject for your fixed attention? Your breath. Decide to focus on your breathing cycle. Subtle aspects arise within every breathed posture and transition.
Move. Carry shtira into posture with your breath. To perform this act of movement and attention we call SUKHA, an ease, a grace, the exact amount of energy for the task, an effortless effort.
With repetition time and ego, you discover pain, limitation, resistance which we call DUKHA.
Observe any pain as an honest teacher. Observe breath as a teacher.
Today we make an open 30 minute session with WISEGUYS in three planes of effortless effort, lymphatics, plus work for lumbar spine strength, stability, balance, pain liberation. This likely will involve floor work in supine bound angle pose. We will slow down.
To slow down is sometimes necessary to allow for a lively and quick pace! To observe the “flavor of practice” is to observe the natural rhythms that arise. Observe harmonies and the beautiful where it may arise in your day.
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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.
