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
August 12, 2025
Tuesday Livestream Wake Up
Our morning livestream consists of some standard movements with breath and it invites further movements. We are yoking Breath and Attention in the Body, our Yoga.
We begin with conscious breath to empty and re-fill the lungs.. We feel the bottom ribs expand, then middle ribs, then upper ribs. We let the breath pour out. We establish our feet, our ground and stability. From that ground we move with breath in three planes of the spine. We observe joint mobility and we open lymphatic channels. Every day.
The first 16 minutes is free to all who find this site. Extra content is for those who subscribe.
In the final 14 minutes we explore other movements and breath.
In today’s final 14 minutes, we observe fundamentals of breath and breath delivery. We place our present attention on the cycle of the breath with its four phases. We observe how the inhale opens/expands and the exhale closes/contracts. We connect that breath awareness with simple body movements that contract and expand.
The breath is the bridge between the body and the mind, a bridge between conscious, sensory experience and the subtle awareness of the soul. We observe the “feast” of the breath.
Because the breath function is unique among body functions, we can observe how the breath activates states of mind. The breath can signal and even trigger anxiety. The breath can signal and induce ease, calm, clarity. We can choose our breath.
Today’s work is a simple introduction to the daily practices, so I will pin this for everybody to view as an intro to the daily practices.
The practices recorded here are not about perfect forms and not about ‘virtuosity.’ High levels of achievement can happen but this is not pre-olympic yoga. These practices are Playful, an approach the yoga calls Lila. For developing practices of strength, greater mobility and balance, plus expanded practices of breath and meditation, we approach with greater vigor and intent. Those practices the yoga calls the Vira, the Heroic practices.
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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....
