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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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....
