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
February 20, 2025
Friday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
Yesterday the theme was concentration and healing. As always we begin from where we are. We awaken breath with heart, awaken breath with attention. We yoke breath and attention in the geography of the body. We move attention and breath through the body. We map the body by its movement and guided breath. Yes, the breath guides us. Sometimes the journey requires more effort and sometimes less. Sometimes we journey uphill and sometimes down. The journey moves toward wholeness, and that wholeness is a healing. To bring your full attention to this journey is to practice concentration. Our practice is a steady, undistressed persistence.
We awaken lymphatic lines. We move in three planes between earth and sky, between east and west, north and south. We use breath to explore the regions, ntermally and externally.
Our culture emphasizes the external, the visible, commodities of the world. Our practice, however, includes internal and invisible areas. We turn attention inward. We observe with breath. We illuminate the inner landscape with breath. The neurologists use the word “proprioception” to mean the awareness of the body in its parts, in their relation to each other, in relation to gravity. There is more, too, than body parts in relation to each other. There comes awareness of density, of expansion, contraction and dilation, of pain and ease, of resistance and unlocked effortless effort.
As we observe we map the landscape of our body, we concentrate with breath, we find the wholeness and discover healing transformation.
And as we make this journey, we come to greater wholeness.
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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.
