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
April 04, 2025
Sunday Livestream Wake Up With Yoga
Although the basic content remains the same in the first minutes of our livestream together, every day brings its own conditions and timing. Perfection in imitation is not the objective.
The objective is to move the body in three planes of the spine’s daily function. Why? Because all movement arises from the spine and as the spine is prepared, so too are we prepared for the day.
The objective is to activate the lymphatic lines. Why? The lymphatic channels are like a technologically advanced plumbing system. As we activate and clear the plumbing, yes, it works to the benefit of our immune system. Yet, this plumbing system of our lymph is smart. Its heightened function signals metabolic health through all systems of the body — and that means endocrine health, vascular and respiratory health, digestive health, etc.
The objective is to observe the body as a vessel for breath. We move from wholeness with intent. We enter posture. We carry our wholeness into the pose. We explore and expand within the pose. We exit consciously guided by breath. That mean to consciously awaken the limitations, the resistance, the pain. When we awaken the pain, it teaches us not to take it easy but rather how to carry our 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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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....
