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 27, 2025
monday livestream wake up
Every day, Monday through Saturday I roll out of bed to wake up with you in breath and movement.
And you know, this work is really about presence and availability and creativity.
Every day, Monday through Saturday we wake the breath and the body and the mind together. We move in three plane of the spine’s functional ability, thus prepared to encounter every movement demand of our day. Lifting a child, mowing a lawn, exiting a truck, washing a floor, moving luggage, skipping over a puddle, reaching for a loose receipt in the back seat, smooching your lover, walking a dog, removing a coffee cup from the shelf, every move we make arises from the spine. We wake up the three planes of spinal movement.
Six days a week we wake the breath to fill the vessel of the body and to guide us into movement and stillness and movement.
Every day we move, we include the activation of lymphatic channels, moving the lymphatic fluid by opening the “gates.” These somatic gates can close for a variety of reasons including injury, too much sleep or not enough, allergies and immune responses, dehydration, dysfunctional movement or movement’s lack. We open the gates with light palpation and stroking fingers, allowing the movement of lymphatic fluid its return to the blood supply, ultimately filtered of its immune-gathered debris. From thoracic ducts into the heart, from the limbs and skull we open the gates and thereby invite every cell of the body to awaken and to function. To open the gates is to jump start metabolism. Open the gates, tell your body “yes.” You can feel the tingle and glow.
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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....
